Word: symphonicment
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When jazz began, America had little music to call its own. There were ballads, popular and folk songs, and some symphonic music by American-born but European-oriented composers. Bubbling in the New Orleans melting pot, however, was a disreputable mix of African, Spanish, French and Protestant revivalist musical influences...
The I.P.O. management, therefore, is naturally sensitive to the taste of its public. Last season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta was chosen as long-range music advisor of the orchestra, and he hoped to modernize the repertory. This season Mehta sandwiched a few more or less contemporary...
No Tea Cookies. Never gazing hammily at the ceiling as so many romantic keyboard idols do, Ohlsson made it clear that he prefers Chopin the dramatist, without entirely sacrificing Chopin the nocturnal perfumer. Rightly so. In the E Minor Concerto, Chopin accomplished the considerable feat of turning the roulades, trills...
Remember The Great Victor Herbert? Or Hi Diddle Diddle! Or how about Never Put It in Writing? Well, Andrew Stone has done it again with Song of Norway. Adapted by Stone from the highly successful 1944 Broadway operetta and filmed in Scandinavia and England at a cost of about $4...
Superstar occupies the same assimilative position in the pop world that Ginastera's Don Rodrigo does in serious opera. Webber and Rice do not outdo the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Prokofiev, Orff, Stravinsky or any other musical influence found in their work. But...