Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That they have. A decade ago there were no more than a handful of West Coast painters of note. Today, California embraces the vast, variegated range of op, pop and minimal, not to .mention such homegrown mutations as the weird, surrealistic offshoot known as funk centered around San Francisco. Los Angeles' particular contribution is an array of bright young individualists who espouse the belief that the object is what is important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works...
This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Pris on. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop al bums of the year. Country Singer Cash, a top concert attraction at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as well as Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look...
...youngster in The Bronx, Composer Stanley Silverman was fascinated by the blur of sounds he got from spinning a radio dial. Pop tunes, speeches, symphonies, soap operas-all jostled each other in a way that struck Silverman as symbolic. "I decided," he says, "that life itself is like switching the dial of a radio...
Last week Silverman's experimental "pop opera," Elephant Steps, had its premiere at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, and it sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...
...music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy is the great American sound, but most of its composers haven't had the technique to carry it further. They write as if Mozart and Weill had never lived. Only Gershwin and Bernstein have gone...