Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Russian-born composer who won three Oscars for his soaring scores for The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea and High Noon, and another for High Noon's memorable theme song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'; after fracturing his pelvis in a fall; in London. Intent on pursuing a career as a concert pianist, Tiomkin left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, made his Paris concert debut in 1924 and two years later performed for the first time in the U.S. Caught in the rush of talent to Hollywood...
...performed with Anthony Braxton as well as with his own electronic group, Musica Elettronica Viva, contributes lean, sensitive synthesizer work that is quite compatible with the suite's carefully structured textures and its theme of relentless exploration and discovery. Jenkins likes the futuristic associations of his oblique song title, and also "the poetic aspect, the way it can be said. 'Space Minds, New Worlds Survival of America.' It has a certain rhythm...
...authenticity as a revolutionary. Yet he continues to be the most popular and respected songwriter among black Jamaicans as well as members of industrialized nations. The third cut, "One Drop" shows why Marley has an attraction that slices through age, class and culture. It is a sweet, simple, pretty song about faith and goodness...
...final song on side one, "Ambush," is Marley's reflection on an incident that occurred when he tolerated the Jamaican political system. Marley had agreed to stage a benefit concert for labor party leader, Michael Manley. Days before the concert, professional gunmen ambushed Marley and his friends, killing one person. Rumors circulated that the attack had been a move by Manley to throw suspicion on his rivals just before the national election. Marley opens the song by mocking the values of the Jamaican power elite. He then asserts that his power to rally black Jamaicans against the system...
Survivors--the title cut--is the last song on the album. Marley calls his black brethren the survivors of centuries of hard living, urging them to continue the struggle; to continue to survive "in this age of scientific atrocity and atomic misphilosophy...