Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Stoltzman is the first to admit it: the clarinet, his chosen instrument, is no musical prince. To begin with, there is the clarinet's tendency to be loudmouthed and crass. It is the sharp-tongued marcher in high school bands, the instrument everyone loves to play badly. In...
For the Silver Jubilee production Bruno Santini designed fresh costumes and settings for the fairy world that are all silver and black. And, taking a cue from the Fairy Queen's remark about being able to "swing upon a cobweb," he opened the show by dropping in a huge cobweb...
We soon meet the Lord Chancellor, who is defendant, prosecutor, judge and jury rolled into one. (Sullivan effects a pun on the legal and musical meanings of canon by repeatedly associating the Lord Chancellor's appearances with fugal imitations in the orchestra.) This part, and others that used to be...
The "Third Stream," Blake said, is nothing new. The phrase was first used by Gunther Schuler in the '50s to describe any musical piece created by blending two or more distinctively different musical styles.
Last Waltz--The Band in that fateful last performance at Frisco's Winterland, turned into an eminently enjoyable, if somewhat self-congratulatory, evening of musical entertainment. Every big name you can think of is here, but the film is really all about The Band and their feelings about giving up...