Word: musication
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Youth. Janáček was born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that time, he fell in love with Kamila Stössl, 38 years his junior and the wife of an antique dealer. The affair was apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy...
...fascinated by the melodic curves of speech. He would eavesdrop on conversations in the street, jotting down musical notations of individual speech patterns. He claimed to have recorded 60 distinct ways in which the word yes could be pronounced. He was also fascinated by bird calls, animal cries, and the whispering of leaves. Conversations between his dogs were carefully transcribed onto music paper. Czech Conductor Karel Ančerl, now music director of the Toronto Symphony, recalls the first time he saw Janáček: "I was returning home from a party with a few friends. A full moon...
...Walter Susskind of the St. Louis Symphony, who remembers Janáček from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing was slapdash and, to would-be performers, sometimes unintelligible. Says Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey...
...already been to New York as star of an in-the-round version of Cabaret. She plans to do Dames at Sea in Florida in January and February. What did she do on her summer vacation? She made a movie, guest-starred some shows on the Kraft Summer Music Hall series, and began reading four other movie scripts. As for Joanne Worley, that full-breasted bird is doing commercials and guest spots, and is part of an upcoming Robert Goulet special. Says she whimsically, "They're even discussing a series for me-a kind of reverse Julia with...
This is the Arlo Guthrie Book. 95 pages. Amsco Music. $2.95. A letter about love to his draft board, his eighth-grade report card, pictures of Arlo with his father (the late Woody Guthrie), pictures of Arlo singing, words and music to his songs-especially Alice's Restaurant-all provide delectations and deliriums for Arlo admirers...