Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pleasure of His Company. As the errant father of the bride, guileful Cyril Ritchard stops the wedding music...
Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...
When Marseille-born Choreographer Béjart, 32, organized his own company four years ago, he banned tutus, dressed his dancers in leotards, slacks and T shirts, began using the music of Composer Henry (Voyage to the Heart of a Child, Arcane II). Since then, he has built a large and enthusiastic avant-garde following. Béjart likes to work with concrete music because it approximates "the infinite variety of the body's natural movements," and there is a system in his mad creations. He explains: "Concrete music can express all emotions, but it must shun the obvious...
...Invented by French Composer Pierre Schaeffer in 1948, concrete music utilizes musical and natural sounds, which are taped and re-recorded at varying speeds; bits of the tape are then spliced together in startling order...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...