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After some reflection Mr. Thompson stated his basic philosophy of composition. "As a composer, I always feel an intene obligation to communicate directly to my audiences, of course without sacrificing my own desires to theirs. My greatest ambition is to try my very best to speak as meaningfully and as broadly to listeners as the past masters have. I am very honored to find out that my music can be appreciated even by people 'like...
...Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi-operatic commentary on the action will be disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume impressionistic reveries while somebody on the stage soliloquizes...
...general, these procedures worked very well. Mr. Beveridge was wisely discreet in composing "Sing to Me Through Open Windows": his few touches set off the material of the drama without getting in its way. Unfortunately, the purely musical effects were partially obscured because no one saw fit to adjust the loudspeaker volume above the mezzo-piano level...
Music formed a greater part of the fabric of Aubade, a play which might conceivably have been composed as an oversize operatic scena. Mr. Ziskin wrote two longish preludes, a good-sized postlude, and supported the heroine enthusiastically during her moments of crisis. The style ranged from jagged dissonance (which was not too successful) to rapid-fire splashes of delicious French harmony, which Mr. Ziskin handles with great verve...
...finds its way into moral and political laxity, but there are over eighty College-wide undergraduate organizations, not counting the numerous House groups. How many students are there in these groups--organizers, producers, managers, entrepreneurs, paper-pushers, as well as political administrators--who never take the step toward irresponsibility? Mr. Levy's reasoning is true in some cases, to his regret and mine, but applying it as broadly as the article does is doing a disservice to the hundreds of students involved in some way or other with being "representatives" who consistently give loyal service to the College community...