Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bubble-gum music speaks to them of their own concerns, or rather unconcerns. Since they are at the awkward age, midway between playing house for fun and playing it for real, the music shrewdly looks both ways, combining nursery rhymes with sex. In May I Take a Giant Step (into Your Heart), the lines...
Twittering & Rumbling. Today he is chairman of the composition faculty at the Yale Music School and an influential experimentalist in modern music. It seems hard to believe, but it is the same Powell-same impressive talent, same capacity for being impressed by it himself. Take, for example, the series of electronic pieces that he recently presented in a special concert at the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discotheque. It was more carefully planned and carried out than most such performances, and it amounted to a kaleidoscope of the new Powell music. There were shim mering, post-Webern instrumental sonorities, crackling percussion...
...improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale. By 1958, when he was offered a professorship...
...self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her rival during an improbable three-cornered confrontation in a restaurant, "Do you love music...
...always bunko anyway," says a titled store executive. Mahogany displays were painted a brilliant cerise, truly modern furniture was stocked next to the Louis XV and Chippendale. But foremost among efforts to rejuvenate itself is the store's "Way In" boutique, where the Rolling Stones belt out background music. Since it opened last year, customers spent an astonishing $2.2 million on such way-out paraphernalia as see-through dresses and ties with tinkling jingle bells...