Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
...turn Sky River into a shambles at all. True, some locals did notice that a few kids seemed to take pleasure in making love in the rain-soaked woods, but this was rather tolerantly interpreted as a harmless aberration of the hippie culture. At any rate, the music was not so terrible and, besides, the hippies were rather charming. It tickled the townsfolk to hear the kids say that the Sun Dance had been the festival's moment of truth, that without it the proceedings would have been a failure...
Bauhaus Byzantine. "Homey," it turns out, needs a fairly broad definition to encompass what the Kreegers wanted. Both music lovers, they are locally famous for their elegant parties and chamber music recitals, to which they invite politicians, diplomats and society leaders. So, while their specifications called for only three bedrooms, that did not include a servants' wing with three additional bedrooms, two baths and sitting room. And for the swimming pool, the Kreegers thought that it would be nice to have an extra pool-level kitchen, not to mention a Plexiglas-roofed inner court for tropical plants...
...ZORBA. Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret). Directed by Harold Prince and starring Herschel Bernardi. The Greek, as in the movie...
...most imitated, if not the most bewildering journalist of the '60s. Wolfe's first collection of articles-The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, written mostly for Esquire and New York magazine-was a carnival of pieces about custom-car styling and demolition derbies, teenage tribal rock music, Las Vegas, and the girl of the year. His reportage on the rages and outrages of modern America's cultural phenomena was fascinating-and fatiguing...