Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Carlin is an American artist trying hard to keep growing. Eternity came breathing down his back six months ago in the form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
Carlins's mother bought him a tape recorder when he was in the eighth grade and he started recording short comical skits--"news, sports, all the stuff that established my comedy"--and visions of radio and music and discjockey slick distracted Carlin from his studies. He eventually quit school...
...Mancha, which did run for five years (more or less) is still playing at the Music Hall -- but not for much longer. Its imminent departure may make getting tickets the impossible dream, but make the effort anyway, taking the chance that Richard Kiley will recover from his backstage accident a few nights ago to recreate the role of his career. Unless you thought he was better in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, in which he didn't even sing. Call 482-0406 for reservations...
Classical music in and around Harvard this year promises to be even better than last, especially because of the number of unusual pieces among the predictable traditional offerings. During the last couple of seasons, the orchestras, vocal groups, House societies, open rehearsals and performance seminars by noted composers have livened up the musical scene at the University, at the same time demonstrating how great an anomaly the term "classical music" has actually become. The best result of all this is that more concerts have drawn more people, largely because imaginative programs have supplanted some of the standard and decidedly overworked...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra had an interesting schedule last year, including performances of contemporary pieces conducted and discussed by the composers. These performance seminars are an ideal way of spreading the appeal and variety of so-called classical music to a vast audience. The HRO starts its season this year after appearing at an international orchestra competition in Berlin, but you can judge its competence for yourself this Saturday night in Sanders Theater, when James Yannatos conducts a program of Debussy, Verdi, Copland and Schumann. The programs for the rest of the year aren't quite as wide-ranging, but watch...