Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been set up all over the country to punish Greeks who offend against king, church or junta. In Athens a worker was sentenced to one year in prison for "behaving like a Teddy boy," a tradesman to six months for "disobedience to authorities." Mikis Theodorakis, the noted leftist musician who composed the score for the film Zorba the Greek, last week was sentenced in absentia to 5? months in prison for offending the honor of the royal family. An estimated 150 to 200 Greeks are already behind bars on such charges, and more are arrested each week...
...middle class, violence is perhaps sublimated increasingly in sport or other pursuits. Says Sociologist Wolfgang: "The gun and fist have been substantially replaced by financial ability, by the capacity to manipulate others in complex organizations, and by intellectual talent. The thoughtful wit, the easy verbalizer, even the striving musician and artist are equivalents of male assertiveness, where broad shoulders and fighting fists were once the major symbols...
...pros, and the pros are drawn by the opportunity to play an eight-week festival of largely contemporary music. "You do get tired of playing Beethoven sonatas," explains Violinist Stuart Canin, who spends his winters as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Chamber Symphony. "Here you can be a creative musician again...
...Henze led rehearsals last week-singing to illustrate his intentions, explaining why parts were written as they were, identifying errors in the printed score-it was clear that he was learning too. "If a musician asks me 'Why this?' and explains why it is difficult for him, he teaches me," says Henze. "There is a gap of understanding today between the composer and performers. Most composers don't care what kind of human being plays the music, and they make it too often senselessly difficult. If a musician insists that a passage is unplayable...
...gadgets. Some of the most notable-or at least most audible-new products on view: >The Conn Corp.'s "multi-vider," a transistorized digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier and a microphone in a wind instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal may be attached to produce...