Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greek bard, Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has sung for his supper and moved on. But lately, that style has been in danger of fading. The modern bards team up with commercial rock groups, or pa rade into well-publicized seclusion, or go wandering in their own psyches in stead of the countryside...
West Side Story--Much, much worse than the show. Badly dubbed and drippily sung, but funny in places. At the SAVOY, 163 Tremont...
...West Side Story--Much, much worse than the show. Badly dubbed and drippily sung, but funny in places. At the SAVOY. 163 Tremont...
...years later, while Sam was singing at a Miami club called the King of Hearts, that he got to know Dave Prater. Dave, now 31, a laborer's son from Ocilla, Ga., had also sung in church. But since moving to Miami, he had supported himself as a short-order cook and baker's assistant. One night at the King of Hearts, still dressed in his baker's white outfit, he joined Sam on the stage for some "clowning around." They have been making joyful noises ever since...
...Beckett, the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and the films of Antonioni. It begins in a mood of tension: excerpts from Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Brazilian mythology are read against a highly dissonant background. In the haunting second part, the name Martin Luther King is recited and sung over and over again, the syllables spilled out here, squeezed there, so that the name is uttered in an endless variety of permutations. In the impassioned third section, the vocalists speak and sing excerpts from Beckett's The Unnamable, swatches from James Joyce, even slogans that were scribbled...