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Zacher's new technique is not confined to the keyboard. His most dramatic trick is to turn the organ blower off while playing. How this sounds can be heard in Kagel's Improvisation Ajoutée, a chilling evocation of chaos included in a Zacher LP just released in the U.S. on the new Heliodor/Wergo label. At the climax of the work, as the supply of air begins to deplete, a cascade of falling pitches and fading sounds engulfs the listener in a musical-mystical doomsday. "It sounds," says Kagel, "as if the organ were exhaling her soul...
...acuity, short-term memory and coordinated motor response−will also weed out drug users and those who are mentally or physically deficient. To satisfy the demanding gadget, a driver must be able to read the relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds. If he can perform these functions he is fit for the road. If he cannot−in three tries−the tester shuts off for a half-hour, giving him time to sober up before another attempt...
Family-perhaps the best of the English groups that has followed Traffic's lead in experimental rock-was in Boston Thursday night with Savoy Brown, but their appearance was limited to one song. Electrical troubles with the group's keyboard and percussion instruments caused an hour and a half delay, and the eventual cancellation of their performance at Northeastern. But in Family's only song. "The Weaver's Answer." there was a brief glimpse of the vitality that characterizes this singular group...
...greatly improved. The Choral Fantasy in CMinor, Op. 80, probably the least familiar work in the whole Festival, got a lively interpretation. This unusual piece, which integrates piano, chorus and orchestra, seemed better prepared than any piece to date. The piano part sparkled, without any of the inference of keyboard exercises which Serkin had previously given. The Chorus Pro Musica, prepared by Alfred Nash Patterson, was in excellent tone, as might be expected from any vocal group which Patterson has conducted. After this opener, the night's program was well established. For the first time in the week, a piano...
...music suddenly slashes at the eardrums. The musicians, dressed in dashikis or undershirts, are bent into their efforts, sweating, their faces expressionless. Their sounds are warm and swirling, then frenetic, the horns bleating, the drummer flailing, the pianist pouncing intently at the keyboard. The tune is unidentifiable, the melody shattered into ravaged fragments, the rhythms complex and seemingly .beyond grasp...