Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tanglewood in Massachusetts, and it sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...
Although the work baffled some and bemused others, it had a cohesive rhythm of its own, and it succeeded in gripping the attention of the Tanglewood audience through its sheer theatrical flair. Silverman, 30, is music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy...
Harvard students have for years dabbled with rock music and its trappings but only recently have some genuinely competent home-grown groups emerged. The Bead Game is of this new breed of serious musicians producing good rock...
...five man band at its best makes a tight inventive sound heavily steeped in today's slick-blues sound. Their influences are diverse: two members of the band swear by soul music, two others have strong feelings about the Doors--John Leone, the strapping singer detests them, while Bob Gass, a soaring organ player loves them. But all of them share a common commitment to being dedicated to their music and have been approached by Vanguard about a recording contract...
...Their music is not only nice to listen to it is also great for dancing as this summer's mixer-goers have discovered. A last chance to hear them will be tonight when they play yet another mixer-dance at Memorial Hall...