Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Full-length cartoon features have been based on novels (Gulliver's Travels), fairy tales (Snow White), even classical music (Fantasia). Yellow Submarine may be the first to be based on a song. Recorded in 1966, the Beatles' jaunty single was jolly good nonsense that even a tune-deaf kid could sing. It was also a sly euphemism for a drug-inspired freak-out. The movie ends up as a curious case of artistic schizophrenia. The score includes several hits by the Beatles and just as many misses. The plot and the animation seem too square for hippies...
...Once I put one past the Harvard band--only once--and that was during a Carnegie Hall performance," Alice said. "I put a sign in Walker's music saying 'Try not to make too big an ass of yourself.' Walker was convinced everybody in Carnegie Hall had seen...
...different kinds of music that were played, the dancers became, in order, English nobles, Spanish castancttas, and African warriors. Suddenly the music stopped, the lights went completely out, and Ted's voice echoed, "Reach out and find someone to hold onto...
Some time later, when most of the groups had degenerated back into the love mounds out of which they had formed, Ted turned on the lights, announced the beginning of the "free dance," turned off the lights, and turned on a colored strobe. Some fast music began to play. In the strobe, to the music, worn out and relaxed by the exercises of the first half of the evening, everybody danced. They danced happily, passionately, playfully, romantically, with Ted leading them all. After an hour and a half, many were still dancing, and as one group of students turned...
...Bacchae--A triumph for the Charles Playhouse and all concerned. Director Timothy S. Mayer has updated Euripides' play in translation and costumes, invested it with modern music, and staged it almost vertically. The devices are amazingly consistent with one another, also with the interpretation, and most of all with the play. The cast is fine. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton...