Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting is a film in itself. Shot in grainy-greenish color, to a soundtrack of dirgeful medieval music, the Icelandic countryside (sheets of solid lava, mist rising from craggy fields) seems like another planet. Maybe it is--but then the whole picture harks back to an idea of man light-years away from...
Forced to grope into theatrical history for an apt comparison, for a composer who was to the mainstream of Broadway music what Bacharach is to that mainstream now, I'd settle on Harold Arlen. Arlen too had a popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism...
...THEY don't positively leap on stage with a hoot and a "Down with Jerry Herman!" sign, Burt Bacharach and Hal David nevertheless make a wicked entrance in the proceedings now on display at the Colonial. Each micro-second of music has the Bacharach-David signature: a souped-up piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long...
...opening the cabaret will present a revue of Cole Porter songs, followed by Jim Rollins playing folk guitar. The acts will go on two or three times during the evening. Between acts, a piano and records will play "nice slow music" for dancing, West said...
...beginning to tire of his Ed Sullivan routine, along came a new batch of sophomores for an audience. "Spider," who picked up his nickname from his uncontrolled running style, spent the summer as a singer-pianist at a club in New Jersey. A lifelong fan of rock-and-roll music and pop culture, McLoone had his finest hour when he appeared at a party last winter in his complete Superman costume...