Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Love Me Tonight. In the early thirties, when sound was new and unmanageable, and spoken words thumped dead on the ear, there were a few directors who saw the new dimension to pictures as something more than just a way to hear subtitles. The great pioneer who weaved sound and...
Kirk, who started his musical career playing a water hose, once had a strange dream about 20 years ago. He saw himself playing three horns. He recognized one immediately, the tenor sax, his native instrument.
Gratuitous plug dept.: There's a great group out of Philadelphia, called the Visitors (featuring Earl and Carl Grubbs) that have an excellent series of albums. The Grubbs are musical cousins of Coltrane and come near to duplicating his sheets of sound style.
With the departure of A.B. Spellman, lecturer in Afro-American Studies, the Afro department has no one on its faculty knowledgeable in Afro-American musical biography or the development of the black musical avant garde. Many schools throughout the nation see these musical and historical aspects of jazz as subjects...
THE MOMENTUM GAINED in the Prokofiev swept the orchestra through a rousing performance of Brahm's Variations on a Theme by Haydn--the first example in musical literature of orchestral variations written as an independent work. Stulberg ably held the work together, preventing the variations from fragmenting into eight separate...