Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feelings rise, John asked the group to gather closely around her and softly massage the different parts of her body. The boy took one of her feet and noticed that her eyes were still closed. "Now slowly lift Elizabeth into the air," John said. They did, and began to rock her back and forth. Then, at John's command, they chanted, "OM" seven times, taking deep breaths each time, and chanting this magical word that contains all the sounds of the universe. Seven times they chanted, swaying Elizabeth back and forth like a child, 13 units of humanity holding...
...most young people, classical music is a drag. Pianist Lorin Hollander, 24, thinks he knows why: "At a rock concert, the atmosphere is love. The rock groups talk their language. But at a classical concert, all they see is a guy in white tie and tails coming out very up tight on a platform. That's a plastic mannequin - society's little machine running up there. If live concerts are going to survive, the artists themselves are going to have to change...
Hollander's chief concern these days is to get the hip audience out of the rock palaces and into the concert halls -at least long enough to hear him play...
...them, that I was giving them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching youngsters of different ages and talking to them about Viet Nam, rock, sex, pot, religion, race. To a group of music haters, he explained that Bach must have had a lot of sex to have 20 children. That kind of approach, says Hollander, at least jarred some of the kids out of their ennui. What is more, they usually stuck around to hear...
...hippie commune next door, and Hollander admits to sharing some of its ideals. He is in favor of "opening up," talks about "the new awareness" and believes that pot should be legalized. In a few weeks, he will give the first classical recital at Manhattan's leading rock palace, the Fillmore East...