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James Taylor, Joan Armatrading and the Pousett-Dart Band-- Harvard Stadium, Cambridge. Telephone 482-0650. July 28, 2 p.m. (rain date July 29). $12.50 and $11.50 in advance; $13.50 and $15 day of show. Presented by the Busch Summer Music Festival to benefit Summerthing...
...celebrate the 86th birthday of Europe's greatest living painter, some 300 examples of Joan Miro's last quarter-century of work were rounded up for a unique display at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera. The ultimate objetamid the sculpture, paintings and stained glass: the artist himself, in a rare public appearance. Physically Miro showed the shadings of age; artistically, however, he sounded positively primal. "I have a whole infinity of projects in mind," he promised the gathering of international well-wishers. "I am simply waiting for an opportunity to realize them...
...Schmidt examines the roots and characters of the Cambridge folk scene from its inception in the late '50s, entering old coffee houses like Tulla's--once near Cahaly's--that first heard the voices of young folk singers like Joan Baez. This...
...NAMES. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Sebastian, all spanning a decade. Von Schmidt sees an enduring musical "scene," based on the fact that people wanted to hear this music. Today that scene doesn't exist, and while von Schmidt wants badly to believe that the listeners are out there, he acknowledges popular decline of the folk movement, and the powerful appeal of electronic music...
...where no scene had existed before, one came into being. What had been smouldering before burst into flames. Joan Baez was the most prominent member of a group whose numbers were growing daily, as were their abilities as musicians and performers. More important still was the fact that there was an audience for this music. People wanted to hear it. It filled some need that we all shared in common before we ever knew what it was. Whatever plans we might have had before were to be totally changed...