Word: musication
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout his 44 years on the Harvard faculty, Woody's prime concern was teaching music to the amateur. For years, at least 300 undergraduates annually enrolled in Music I, the introductory course he designed and taught specifically for the non-musician...
When conducting, Woody took delight in a wide range of repertory, with specialties in the Renaissance, the Golden Age of choral music, 20th Century contemporaries, and the classics of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Berlioz, and Brahms...
...deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion. He gave his last concert in Ossiach, Austria, just a week before his death, and though the frail old man nearly fainted at one point, he continued to play. "Music," he told friends afterwards, "has always been my best therapy...
...Music, Demo, Talk. Although he hopes to be syndicated and eventually perhaps make a network comeback, he is starting in modest style. Instead of yesterday's Today army of 116 staffers, Garroway gets along with just six in Boston. The format, in TV jargon, is "music, demo, demo, talk, talk"-guest singer or jazz group, a visual demonstration of something like glassblowing or astronomy, and the inevitable circuit-riding horde of authors promoting books or public figures pushing causes. Garroway calls it the "desk and sofa concept," and he certainly should know. Yet his taste, often waggish, brings...
...through it all I truly believe that it's the hip cultural movement that's eventually got to save the South. The South so eagerly gobbles up everything that's shiny and new in America. Right now it's Playboy Clubs and Tastees. But they drink our rock music, too. That's where we'll start to get them--through what they think of as being their fun. As soon as we convince them that it's more fun on our side, they'll want to be like us, they'll take drugs, they'll wear clothes like...