Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being a member of the rock 'n' roll faithful -- assuming it can be compared to anything else -- is like being a professional sports fan. You go to rock 'n' roll concerts like a fan goes to game after game. Sometimes, when your group looks as good on stage as they sound on records, you win. And sometimes, when the people who go with the sound you paid to hear turn into one big disillusionment, you lose -- and feel like a sucker for caring at all, knowing like the sports fan that they're out there for money...
...their picture in a bathtub on the cover of their album and all you've heard are stories about LSD arrests. There are four of them and they flew in from the Virgin Islands last spring with two enormous hits and a totally original sound. You walk back stage at the Commonwealth Armory expecting to find a completely flipped-out bunch, four curiosities who happen to sing nice songs...
...before the Beatles' Los Angeles performance of 1964, brought with them two warm-up groups who strove to outdo each other only in tastelessness. Nino Temple and April Stevens once had a hit with a sappy 1930's revival called "Deep Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang" but the rest of the time contented themselves with reciting embarrassing racial jokes...
...critic suggested that "David may turn into a musician of stature when he grows up." Only he never really grew up - physically, that is. Artistically, however, David Nadien developed into a giant. He demonstrated that last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall when he strode on stage - all 5 ft. 4 in. and 116 lbs. of him - and played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with elegance and grace, a tone pure and silken, and a technique that was a marvel of dizzy ing leaps and lightning runs. During the long ovation that followed, Conductor Leonard Bernstein embraced Nadien...
...center, at which scholars of different disciplines are teaming to help solve some basic problems of the Los Angeles megalopolis, such as the best way to integrate public and private welfare services in Watts. As a cultural catalyst, U.C.L.A. last year drew 500,000 Angelenos to concerts, lectures and stage performances on campus. At the same time, its centers of African, Near Eastern and Latin American studies have drawn international acclaim for excellence, and U.C.L.A. claims to teach more languages than any other university in the world...