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John Whitney exploits the wizardry of computer graphics in Arabesque to create an elegant essay in formal design. To the insistent rhythms of an electronic sitar, Whitney creates an Oriental kaleidoscope of pulsating colors and lines. Roll'em Lola, a product of Southern California's Department of Film Graphics is a fast-paced car chase through a liquified Peter Max landscape that keeps changing into the sinuous humps and valleys of an Ingres odalisque. And Will Vinton simply uses animated clay to tell a sly parable of nature's revenge on three musicians who "groove too high" on their electric...
Supported by an all-volunteer cast of 200, Pir Vilayat narrated from the high cathedral pulpit as the Sufi choir sang themes from various religions and a small orchestra, complete with conch and sitar, emitted a variety of sounds. The sequence of the performance, if not the message, is borrowed from the Christian Eucharist. In each section, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and Moslems are given a turn to express their devotion. As the Mass ends, Pir Vilayat intones: "I am the One I love, there is but One. One in all. All in One." With that, the cast bursts into...
...Brigifte Bardot's hotel room? According to a new skin-deep biography of B.B. by British Writer Peter Evans, the former Beatle once more or less invited himself there. Since Lennon was in an Oriental mood at the time, Brigitte was advised to provide some cushions and sitar music for a bit of transcendental meditation. When all was ready, Lennon appeared at London's May Fair Hotel, took up a yoga position on the floor, and said not a word for half an hour. Brigitte tried to make conversation, but Lennon sharply told...
...greatest skill is in provoking disapproval while thoroughly enjoying himself. His latest enthusiasms combine an old appetite for philandering with a sweet tooth for the styles of the young. Long hair, mod clothes, of course. But there is also his composition Elevations 9, a chamber concerto for violin, sitar, bass guitar and bongos, and his affair with an ob noxiously ill-tempered girl named Sylvia. Despite the novel's rather straight forward title, she turns out to be only...
Side One contains an introduction to the concert by Harrison and a sitar and sarod duet by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, a meeting of the superstars of the East as Shankar and Khan rarely appear on stage together. Shankar and Khan faced a Western audience that managed to commit the faux pas of clapping after the musicians finished tuning, thinking that they had finished playing a song, but they managed to sound not too upset and rendered a beautiful performance...