Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today the doors are wide open. The very teachers and scholars who were forced to make themselves invisible are revered. There is a great demand for classical ballet and a fresh, unsatisfied curiosity about modern dance, particularly the work of Martha Graham. But most of the boom is in music. Last year there were 6,000 applications for 150 places at the Shanghai Conservatory. Says Tang Xuchen, 72, deputy director of the conservatory: "There is something that foreigners do not understand. Children were taught in secret, and anyway, the more you suppress a people, the stronger they become." Tang would...
...tour was expensive ($650,000 put up by corporations, and a third of that by Coca-Cola), and pitifully brief. But last week it seemed as if the Chinese thought the Boston Symphony Orchestra had brought Western classical music intact off their jet. The musicians left behind sets of gut strings, pounds of musical scores and manuscript paper. They also promised to find a way to get some Chinese students to next summer's festival at Tanglewood. Ozawa was careful to point out that this would be a good bargain for both: "Americans need to see the intensity...
...better places do not curdle the diner's juices with Tin Pan Aloha plunk-plunk music. Some of the most memorable songs are English or American ballads rendered in Hawaiian to a Hawaiian beat; The Battle Hymn of the Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound...
...piped in. "We heard the overture," he relates, "and several minutes of singing into the first act and still no one reacted. Then Kahn leaped to his feet and exclaimed: 'I can't believe it. It's simply marvelous . . . and just imagine, hearing that wonderful music and those marvelous voices and we don't have to look at those ugly faces...
...best known of that group of 900,000 French-speaking Louisianians, descendants of French farmer-fishermen, who live in the bayou country south and west of New Orleans. Except for Guidry's left arm, Cajuns are known mostly by hearsay. They are reputed to play strange-sounding accordion music, make a mean gumbo, and generally be as colorful as the crawfish in their bayous. The rumors are right, as Journalist William Rushton demonstrates in the first popular survey of Cajun culture...