Word: music
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring sanity to bear against a sensual overload, trying to assimilate the hyper-real unreality of the wondrous ravings of a lunatic. As the house lights return you to the world of the mundane, you will struggle to breathe and to re-learn the ability to function without music and light pushing you, oppressing you, uplifting...
...music of 1000 Airplanes, composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble, drives the production. It powers and parallels M's changes in mood, fluctuates and pulses as M's tenuous grip on reality weakens, strengthens, weakens again, and eventually disappears entirely. M rants and raves about the sound, "THE SOUND," which attacks her soul, tearing her away from the reality she hopes and fears to embrace and pulling her toward an alternate reality she simultaneously loves and abhors...
...show opens with music, a buzzing and humming so powerful you may wonder if Glass actually commissioned 1000 airplanes to land on the roof of the theater. The music intensifies; the walls shake. No longer do you hear the music, you feel it rattling your rib cage, shaking your elbows, your knees, your thighs. Harmonies become distorted, and as they change, they disrupt the rhythm of your heartbeat. A hint of melody develops, disappears, reappears; it is the theme to E.T., except it appears to have been rewritten by someone under the influence of LSD. M appears onstage...
...excellent reputation," the council so thoroughly bungled its efforts to sponsor concerts that Harvard is reportedly blacklisted in the music business. Former Council Chair Evan J. Mandery '89 told a Crimson reporter that one concert promoter advised him that the council would probably never attract a performer to Harvard again...
...hallucinogens) and hard drugs (heroin and now crack), does share responsibility for creating an environment that legitimized and even, until recently, lionized the cocaine culture. This wink-and-a-nod acceptance, this implicit endorsement of illicit thrills, has been a continuing motif in movies, late-night television and rock music. My personal life may rarely intersect with impoverished drug addicts, but the entertainment media created in the image of people like me easily transcend these barriers of class, race and geography...