Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within a musical framework of this frenzied a pace there is no place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don...
The first thing to realize is that many of the Who's songs are complete stories with something well-identified happening in the course of the song. Putting a story to music does not automatically make an opera. Only if the music has been molded to the story in such...
This total effect, the fusion of music to meaning crops up in all of their past work. In 'Pictures of Lily' Townshend tells the story of a small boy, probably himself, who is given a picture by his father to 'help him sleep at night'. Gradually the boy falls in...
DEBUSSY: LA MER, L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE, JEUX (CBS). Claude Debussy is the father of modern music, and Pierre Boulez is one of France's leading musical experimenters. To hear how Boulez handles these familiar works is to be reminded of how radical they are...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SYMPHONY NO. 6, THE LARK ASCENDING (Angel). Because it was completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene...