Word: organ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organ music, wrote John Milton in the 1630s, "could dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before mine eyes." Until the 20th century, most music lovers would have agreed. Despite the revival of interest in Baroque music, the organ's role in modern musical life has been marginal. One reason is the declining importance of the church itself. Another is that organists by temperament seem to be among the most staid of musicians. In the past few years, though, a new excitement has been stirred by organ playing and composing, thanks largely to the talent of a brilliant...
From Zacher's organ at the Folkwang Academy in Essen come some of the most adventurous and innovative sounds heard in a time beset by strange noises. Playing music by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Georgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Ernst Krenek and, naturally, John Cage, Zacher treats the organ as though it were a giant musical synthesizer, capable of taking sound back to its primeval sources and building music anew. That is exactly how Zacher feels about...
...occasionally pompous, but Heath too often comes across as downright prissy; he nearly blushed purple the other day when two twentyish birds stopped him on a street to ask what he intended to do about the exorbitant price of "panty tights." His hobbies are playing classics on the organ, and sailing a sleek racing yacht...
Student hopes were raised May 8 when the Harvard Graduate School of Design Association (HGSDA), primarily an alumni organ although it includes faculty and students, rejected the administration's explanation of why Hartman's contract was not renewed...
...Cudhea also said, "I as a house organ editor and officer of the University simply do not see how I can refuse internal official requests either for photography or testimony." He said he would testify, if asked, on his unpublished demonstration notes before the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). But he would not turn over evidence to municipal authorities, he added...