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Freud called dreams "the royal way to the subconscious," but LSD may be a better psychoanalytic tool for unlocking some of the mysteries of human mind, Dr. Stanislov Grof told an audience of 150 at the Medical School last night...
...Grof. director of Psychological Resoarch at Spring Grove State Hospital, Maryland, said that "because there is a lack of specific chemical reactions" common to the LSD experience, the hallucinogenic drug can be invaluable for understanding individual personalities...
Built around Thomas Wolfe's patriotic prose poem Burning in the Night, the Salute started with an overture by Ferde Grofé, 73, who composed it in seven days, along with background music for the whole show, despite a recent stroke that has paralyzed his right side (he had to write it with the left hand). Interspersed with Actor Hugh O'Brian's reading of the poem were songs by the Bitter End Singers, the Serendipity Singers, Anita Bryant, Mahalia Jackson and the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill, who dressed in buckskins and boots to belt...
...always, Grofé's musical method was simple: if you want to evoke the idea of a gun fight in a saloon, fire a gun; if it is fire engines you are after, ring a fire bell. Ferde's 1933 Tabloid Suite, inspired by the New York Daily Mirror, was even scored for typewriters. The San Francisco Suite consisted of four descriptive movements-"Gold Rush," "Bohemian Nights," "Mauve Decade" and "1906-1960"-all of them as cliché-ridden as any Mirror Sunday feature. But the composition was stuffed with enough acoustical effects to keep any Grof...
Manhattan-born Composer Grofé, who lives in Santa Monica but has not yet written any music about it, laments that he is "running out of suites" and talks wistfully of doing "one big symphony" based on either War and Peace or the life of Abraham Lincoln. Much modern music, says Grofé, leaves him cold, including the later works of Igor Stravinsky. "Sometimes," he says, "I feel I must take a course in music appreciation. If I understood modern music I might write that way myself...