Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. In "The Five Faces of Jazz, Newport 1967," Host Herbie Mann traces the origin of Middle and Near Eastern music with the help of his quintet, then turns the stage over to African Drummer Olatunji, Brazilian Guitarist Luis Henrique and Hungarian Guitarist Gábor Szabo-all demonstrating the form's roots and reverberations in other musical cultures...
...cocktail conversation that dwells on new candidates. His presence does not pervade the Government. Events, of course, could resurrect him. Crisis could make him the man of the moment. But as soon as the tense times passed, he would fade again. Perhaps he can move back to center stage with travel and a series of talks on America's future. But even then, the old luster would be missing. He is a lame duck-or as Aesop would have it, a declining lion-and that condition is as inescapable...
...power, lyricism and ecstatic anguish, soul is a chunky, 5-ft. 5-in. girl of 26 named Aretha Franklin singing from the stage of a packed Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan. She leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration, features twisted by her intensity, and her voice?plangent and supple?pierces the hall...
...forged around tenements, speakeasies and rent parties?a harsher, more nervous brand of blues that reflected the stress and tempo of urban living. This style mingled with the blaring jazz and blues that swept out of the Southwest during the swing era (Andy Kirk, Count Basic), and so the stage was set for the emergence, after World War II, of rhythm & blues...
Died. Teo Otto, 64, one of the world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...