Word: tec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roland Tec's music, composed for this production, tends to work against the play's attempt to evoke '20s Chicago. Though jazzy, it sounds too much like '40s bebop. The scat singing between scenes is clearly not spontaneous. Not that Tec's music should sound like frequent Brecht collaborator Kurt Weill's, but it adds little and even detracts from the atmosphere...
Hainsworth commissioned Roland B. Tec '88 to compose the music for the play, which in true Brechtian fashion is not exactly atonal but has musical elements to it. Tec, who has worked with mainstage productions in the past and whose opera Stained Glass was produced at Harvard last year, says he researched Chicago jazz before write the music...
...renowned for his studies confirming plate tec tonic theories of sea floor spreading and continental drift. His work showed that the earth's magnetic field had reversed. He received the highest honor for achievement in the earth sciences, the Vetlesen Prize...
Mail order houses sell 40 CPS daisy wheel printers, such as the Tec or Starwriter F-10 for about $400. The F-10 is fairly rugged, and has an excellent print quality. Slower daisy wheel printers, manufactured by typewriter companies such as Silver Reed and Brother, start at around $200 for a 15 CPS model...
According to Taylor's postmortem, TEC was caught in the crossfire between HBO, owned by Time Inc., with its 11 million subscribers, and Viacom International Inc.'s Showtime, with 4 million. Taylor predicted a rebirth for TEC in another form, however. He is planning to launch a scaled-down, advertiser-supported channel under the same name late this spring. It will seek a broader audience with fare including Hollywood classics and short-lived TV series from seasons past. RCA and RCI have not decided whether to back the new venture. It would be a gamble...