Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Who's that?" asked one bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical...
The album also proves that the group has genuine musical impact even when deprived of its visual flair. Last week in London, the boys prepared to follow up The Who Sell Out with what they hope will be an equally inventive recording. They need to. It is the only way...
As Shankar demonstrated at his sixday "Festival from India" in Manhattan last week, he is the farthest thing imaginable from a pop musician. Rather, he is the foremost practitioner of one of the world's oldest and most sophisticated musical arts. Weaving the melodies of the classic raga into...
Shankar's display of musical hypnotism clearly dramatized the essential difference between Western and Indian music. Much of Western music is an ex pressive artistic message delivered-as if in a package-directly to the listener. Indian music attempts to induce a loftier, more profound emotional and spiritual state...
"I don't like the idea of funny fiction," says Wilfrid Sheed. "When I started writing, my first impulse was toward humor, but I soon learned that I wanted to use it for serious purposes." Sheed's first models were the "flat but musical" styles of such Americans...