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...Bakker would have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...
...have been the most soulful commencement ceremony in Ivy League history. Moments after accepting an honorary doctor of music degree from the trustees of Brown University last week, Stevie Wonder, 37, stepped down from the dais and walked to a nearby terrace where an electric piano had been discreetly set up. Wonder noted that this was a special occasion for everyone and invited the audience of 2,000 graduates and 8,000 parents and guests to relax and take in the moment. Said he: "In the spirit of those who never had the opportunity to receive a degree...
...seduce the ear. His structures are sturdy,his orchestration is crisp and clean. Yet this is not the dread "Princeton School" music of baleful repute, the arid note spinning that often characterizes the works of Ivy League composers like Milton Babbitt. Harbison, who as a teenager played jazz piano and who at Harvard led the Bach Society Orchestra, is an academic with a heart...
...scenery; the men are wooden. All seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing in the original, but I wonder if they would have resembled Yannis Arzimanoglou's melodramatic piano music or Eleni Nikolopoulou's Broadway-style choreography...
Take "See You In Paradise. "Not only is that the sort of title a hippie mystic like Morrison would invent, but the opening piano chords mimic the Irish guru's "Bright Side Of The Road" with no mean precision. Similarly, "First Time," a rave up with some inspired drumming, sounds like it was written after a careful analysis of "Wavelength," and "Celtic Ballad" could be a cut on any one of Morrison's albums...