Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music reflects the mimic style and adds another artistic dimension to it. "Love in the Pantry," a piece based on the harlequin character from the commedia dell' arte, tells the story of the harlequin's love for a maid. His courting is spurned at first, but he wins her over and she offers him food and drink. The other servants in the house discover him and throw him out bodily, with the offending maid close behind. The two pick themselves up, held themselves to the supplies of the pantry, and live happily ever after. By associating the characters with instruments...
...Clearly uncomfortable with the sneering, puke-spitting persona created for him by Pistols manager Malcolm MacLaren (who gets singled out for abuse in "Lowlife"), Lydon wants to defy public expectations while still maintaining an audience, a limited public image. Unfortunately, it is Lydon's purposed demarche, his frankly experimental music, which fails most miserably...
...Lydon's experiments fail not only because they are overlong but because they are, at base, ill-conceived; he is plainly playing with things he doesn't understand. haphazard electronic effects and innovation for innovation's sake do not succeed for experiment's sake; valid experimental music requires a knowledge and understanding, a directive genius, that this album simply lacks. However much he thinks producers are "rubbish" and superfluous, Lydon could only have been helped by the masterful touch of someone like Brian...
...University's greaftest faux pas is made at the expense of Harvard's dancers, who still remain in limbo. They have felt the worst aspects of both the Harvard arts tradition and the modern budget squeeze. Dance and choreography, unlike drama or music, cannot be studied without performing. Dance, which has forever been a part of man's culture, has only in the past year come to be represented in the Harvard curriculum, and then only as a pirouette into cultural history. In their defense, Radcliffe and the Council for Performing Arts have strongly supported extra-curricular dance efforts; dancers...
...there exists no equivalent to Music 180 in drama or in dance. Hum 15 is a commendable introduction to studio arts for interested students; but due to budget constraints, its enrollment is limited. More and better performing courses integrated with analysis and history, are necessary...