Word: moog
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...last fall's All Things Must Pass by George Harrison and Phil Spector. Al and Mike's Don't Go Near The Water is probably the best song yet to emerge from rock's current ecology kick. Against a satirical background provided by a gurgling Moog synthesizer and a tinkling, Satie-like piano, come the words...
...this really necessary? Should a 19th century novel try to read like a 20th century novel? Do Bach's harpsichord preludes really sound better on a Moog synthesizer? Does a modern-dress version of Hamlet really make Shakespeare seem modern, and therefore by implication better? More relevant? Is any new translation really going to cast a new light on Dostoevsky's least popular major novel...
Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog (Columbia...
...Everything is actually something less than that, a Franco-Spanish program including Chabrier's España, Ravel's Bolero, a mini-suite from Bizet's Carmen and the Malagueña of Ernesto Lecuona (only Latin in the group). Infinitely superior in sound quality and Moog mastery to the same company's alltime classical bestseller Switched-On Bach, Everything is not to be confused with the originals, nor is it to be condemned for its license. Harmless fun and easy to take, it asks the question: Has the time come to judge Moog programmers...
...market and rang up $1,000,000 in new and unexpected wholesale revenues for Columbia. Munves was also the first executive to turn on to Switched-On Bach, when almost everyone else at Columbia was turning off. Now, 2½ years after its release, Bach on the Moog synthesizer is still No. 1 on the classical charts and ranks as the company's all-time best classical seller...