Word: maro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muzak's piped-in music programs had no spot for a composition in dead silence. But last week, hardy Manhattan concertgoers made a spot for Composer Cage's rhythmic, percussive "sounds & silence" music. At Carnegie Recital Hall for two nights in a row, Pianist Maro Ajemian thudded, clanked, bonged and chimed through 16 sonatas and four interludes on a "prepared" piano outfitted with bolts, screws, pieces of rubber and plastic stuck inside to short-circuit the tones. (After the first night, someone unCaged the piano, and the composer himself took three hours getting all the gadgets back into...
...Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine in local elections. All the fighting, for the present, will be done on the barricades of bureaucracy. Slovenly, shambling Mauro Scocci-maro, noted for his long, unwashed hair, dirty shirts and doctrinaire stubbornness, holds office as Minister of Finance; but when Premier de Gasperi drops him, Party Boss Togliatti does not even put up a fight. This is no time for unwashed comrades. Togliatti himself sets the fashion of what the well...
Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...front, Maro Beebe, Johnny Burton, Caleb Loring, Al Everts, Tommy Ayres, and Bill Harding are all in the running, and they will probably emerge in some combination as the first two lines. Tom Cowen, veteran defenseman, is taking a month off to catch up with his studies...