Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE SUCCESS of Randy Newman's "Short People," a musical litany of the faults and failings of shorter folk, reminds us that our country is still overly concerned with physical appearance and height. Sales of platform shoes suggest there are many people out there who wish they were taller. The...
Lady Bird Johnson was close to tears, said bystanders, the day Eartha Kitt spoke out emotionally at a White House luncheon. American boys, she protested, were being "snatched off to be shot in Viet Nam." For a decade the entertainer was unofficially banned from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But last week...
FILMS, NOVELS and poetry start at one place, follow a consistent course to another and hopefully make a point somewhere along the way. Recorded pop music, however, has chronically suffered from a lack of thematic focus--the aural equivalent of short story collections, pop records often veer crazily from love...
The answer to this problem has been the concept album, and it's proven largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the...
Although the instrumentation succeeds in Mitchell's newer, freer style, many of the songs on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter do not. The general rule in any style of musical composition seems to be that the less apparent the structure of a work, the more underlying framework and discipline it...