Word: musicalization
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...records, on The Ed Sullivan Show, with their film A Hard Day's Night and on an American concert tour. When I caught them, in Philadelphia's Town Hall (honest, I was an infant back then), they could have been a mime troupe, so helpless was their music against the sonic shield of the audience's screams...
...part of a restoration project of Franklin D. Roosevelt's old suite, the House is throwing a feast with Blue Point oysters, beef Richelieu, live piano music, and a string quartet playing songs from the Victorian era. The whole project is supposed to illustrate how far Harvard has come from its blue-Blooded roots, but, uh, surprise! The 6 p.m. dinner is ticket/invite only. Bet you can crash it, though...
...integration of diverse traditions and cultures into the arts—a mission it allegedly shares with BlackCAST.There is some worry that Eleganza has placed too much focus on scantily clad models and provocative dancing and too little on being a celebration of the black community’s music and fashion. “Over time, there has been a misalignment between Eleganza and BlackCAST,” says Christian I.C. Strong ’09, former BlackCAST co-president. “Originally Eleganza was a means to put African Americans on stage and present them...
...produced in the past. However, when the band stops trying to force this sense of free-spiritedness and opts instead to write songs that actually show some form of inspiration, the appeal of their studio work can be found. The Atlanta-based Black Lips have adamantly defined their music as “flower punk,” implying a paradoxical combination of emotion and energy, but their fifth studio album is composed mostly of trite, standard punk-rock songs that seem only to scream the message that the band is still full of teenage angst. The song...
...cover of “Tight Knit” shows a silhouetted woodland scene superimposed over a stylized circular star map, reflecting a new direction for Vetiver’s music. The band has always had the quality of a hushed guitar-strumming circle in a forest clearing, but after three albums and five years, Vetiver’s “Tight Knit” makes a conscious effort to progress beyond the delicate, relaxed sing-alongs of their freak-folk origins for a more exuberant tone and perky production. Since Vetiver’s first appearance...