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...arrived. Five years ago, few outside Northern California had ever heard of it, but today the unthreatening, alpha- state instrumental music is not only found in record stores across the nation but wafts from speakers in chic boutiques and fancy bookshops as well. Like its predecessors, Muzak and Mantovani, New Age music is easily disparaged. Yet music that relaxes need not be devoid of content. Bach composed the Goldberg Variations to ease the slumbers of an insomniac, and his contemporary, Telemann, wrote reams of Tafelmusik, music intended as background to dining. Quality is not necessarily restricted by function...
...generation that came of age blowing its mind and ended up blow-drying its hair. Trivializing disturbs him: "The rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
Everyone plays boisterous games (though not everyone tosses beer kegs out the window--if you feel the urge, make sure the keg is empty, and the window open). Stereos are rarely played softly; there are, truth be told, very few Mantovani afficionados here. And "noisy or disorderly occupants of a room in a dormitory under University supervision" are very rarely, if ever dismissed. A few years ago, some Kirkland House students built a disco dance floor in their room, complete with strobes and turbo-charged stereos. Every night, they danced. all through the fall semester, even though their dance floor...
There the headline is, back in the classified section of the Atlantic Monthly, along with those two-line ads for items like "Cookie Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the Bear Creek Corp. In Medford, Ore. In the country round Medford, it declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming...
DIED. Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, 74, mood-music maestro whose lush, homogenized sound made him the first musician to sell a million stereo albums in the U.S.; after a prolonged illness; in Tunbridge Wells, England. The Venetian-born, British-educated son of a Covent Garden concertmaster began his own career at 16 as a classical violinist. Though he conducted London's Hotel Metropole Orchestra and his own Tipica Orchestra in concerts, BBC broadcasts and on records in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, and later became music director for Playwright Noel Coward, Mantovani was little known outside of Britain...