Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of shooting the moon on defense and military spending [Feb. 13], as Reagan's unacceptable budget proposes, why not shoot the moon on arming our minds and educational institutions? Doesn't Reagan know that education is our best defense...
What is their newest theme? Since they've run out of seasons, the group's latest goal, with the help of the Cambridge Singers and the London Symphony Orchestra, is to "vinylize" Kepler's dream of travelling to the Moon Davis has taken the text of "Kepler's Dream" ("Somnium"), translated from Latin, and translated some of its themes into music, as he did with his wife's seasonal poetry on earlier albums. The first side of the album is entitled. "To the Moon," while the second is divided between "On the Moon" and "Return...
...Cambridge Singers and are recorded in the resinous Ely Cathedral, giving them a chilling quality never achieved in earlier Fresh Aire chants. The last song on the first side, entitled "Chant," (through it is not one), has a piano refrain which is very much like "Midnight on a Full Moon," the playful toy piano piece at the end of III. The rest of "Chant," however, recalls the monumental medieval style of "Fantasia" with its variations on a horn call theme. Though the horn sounds are fantastic (as they should be, played by the London Symphony Orchestra), the electronic "bending...
...weird, oscillating synthesizer, with strange electronic sounds, adds a new and colorful twist to "Creatures of Levania" (Kepler's dreamy inhabitants of the Moon which he claims. "By combining nature with art,... can take refuge at the bottom of the deep waters.") The compressed, off-beat bass and high, clipped synthesizer sound like portions of Alan Parson's robot music, but the song is infused with Steamroller-style life through the flowing keyboard lead, which sounds like a space-aged vibraphone played by a master planist (a strange coincidence, as the keyboardist is Jackson Berkey, Juliard graduate and Baldwin grand...
...MORE REASONABLE explanation can be found in the album's theme--there are no purely piano interludes on the moon. That is why "Release," which starts out very much like "Interlude I" (from I), complete with the appropriate pauses, changes into an enchanted theme of discovery like the one which accompanies the opening of the Ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Furthermore, living long before Stanley Kubrick. Kepler seems to have missed the age of Tocattas in space they were probably reserved for such mundane things as Summer and Winter (the themes of III and IV, respectively...