Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character...
Contests, Contests. When Shirley was a child in Los Angeles, her Seventh-day Adventist parents were dismayed at her interest in opera: they loved "good" music but considered opera almost as frivolous as theater and jazz. But she was a girl with aggressive drive and unyielding self-assurance-and so proved it in her brief venture in real estate. Then Shirley won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1955, and the Juilliard School of Music gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured...
...Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits are already...
Tossed together by the computer, Carol Berman and Patricia Marks discovered that they had similar tastes in clothes, tended to cram their studies into long nights before deadlines, and shared a love of soul music. They even had a similar hangup: Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were...
...ceiling hangs a huge mobile by Britain's Gordon Pask that responds electronically to lights flashed on it by visitors. Wen Ying Tsai's sonically activated bed of strobe-lit steel rods sways to each clap of the viewer's hands. Taped sounds of computer-composed music fill the air, and computer-made poetry is on view. Some of it reads rather like Alice in Wonderland as rewritten by Charles Olson...