Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Command Post. An early work, Zyklus (1955), was relatively baroque and totally unelectrical. A lone musician, encircled by 40 pieces of percussive hardware, moved busily among them, making light, tinkling noises and harsh rasps and thumps. The score, which was mounted on a revolving ring, allowed the musician to begin where he pleased; when he came full circle, the piece was over. Two other works were played on a tape recorder that Stockhausen himself operated from his command post in the tenth row, modulating and ricocheting the sound among four huge speakers mounted in the auditorium...
Another composition, Momente, featured an orchestra plus chorus and soloist who, among other things, snapped their fingers, scraped their feet, giggled and whispered lovingly (Stockhausen confesses that he was in love when he wrote the piece). One musician poked a gong with drumsticks while another "played" the organ with the palms and backs of his hands. Stockhausen declared that Momente was still unfinished and, to the dismay of some listeners in the audience, added that "some day it will be played all evening...
...Soul. In San Francisco's newest bohemia, the Haight-Ashbury district, Al Johnson, an unemployed musician, throws a party every Wednesday night in his basement pad. He serves coffee, invites in an embryo rock group, charges neighbors 50? to drop by-and clears $30 to $40 a week, enough to pay the musicians' carfare and, more important, his rent. In Squaw Valley, half a dozen ski bachelors are renting a cabin for the winter. To pay for it, they are giving mammoth spaghetti-dinner parties every Saturday night. Charging $1.50 to $2 a head, they hope to clear...
...falling all over themselves to carry her bags, and save her a seat on the bus. More than that, she is justifiably proud of breaking the sex barrier at the Philharmonic, which, apart from female harpists, has never in its 125-year history hired a woman musician fulltime. As it is, Orin struggled through ten years and several auditions before she finally won the job this year over 33 men bass players...
...Musician, band hooker, cattle breeder, antique collector, real estate investor, holder of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange-Jules Caesar Stein, 70, has made money in all those roles. To say nothing of founding the Music Corp. of America and parlaying it into a $300 million music-movie-TV empire. Not surprisingly, he never found much time to work at the profession he trained for: ophthalmology. But last week Dr. Stein made amends...