Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A Negro community group from Chicago's South Side tells the Christmas story in original contemporary soul music in "Time Is Running Out: An Afterthought to Christmas," a swinging look at the season...
ZORBA. Producer-Director Harold Prince has turned out a brassy bit of Broadwayana that is as far from the Mediterranean basin as is Shubert Alley. Herschel Bernardi is never really possessed by the role of the grizzled Dionysian pagan, and the bouzouki music sounds as if it were piped in by Muzak...
Still, concert success has not left her visibly selfsatisfied, nor impatient with an "academic" music department. "I tasted all that while I was still in my teens," she says. "For artists going in the other direction, from study to performance, things like that can be meaningful. But finally I gave part of it up for serious study...
Years of playing have not overcome all of Miss Vosgerchian's reserve, despite her usual ebulliance. Monday lectures in Music 51 still make her nervous, she says. And when she last played at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center, "You know they wanted so many interviews and photographs!" She makes a face...
...MUSIC 51 is run on one apparent principle: that practical facility is as important as theory. Each student accordingly has two small keyboard sections after the Monday lecture. Miss Vosgerchian believes that to "understand" a technique of harmony means little. The mind and ear must be drilled until they can handle it facilely. Only then is a student inclined not to settle for the first harmonization he thinks of. He will be able to choose the best of several...