Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is not quite William Congreve's classic line of the 1690s. It is the Fugs of the 1960s, in their song When the Mode of the Music Changes. And it sounds a theme that is growing louder, if not clearer, throughout contemporary rock: change, wildness, rebellion against civil authority. Social and political revolution, that catchword of radical left rhetoric, is becoming a fashionable topic for more and more rock groups-at least as far as their lyrics...
...about the creche and the candlelit tree, the party joins in singing a carol or one of Luther's mighty hymns. Then Papa-head thrown back, fingers marching over the keys in a steady, stately rhythm-begins to improvise, outlining a succession of daring harmonies, guiding the simple theme through a contrapuntal labyrinth of variations. The melody emerges transformed: elaborate, yet plain; passionate, yet rigorously logical. It is a prayer to God in sound...
...along with the blues and Ravi Shankar. "I don't always know what Bach is doing," says Butterfield, "but we seem to be friends." One of last year's hit records, A Whiter Shade of Pale, by England's Procol Harum, was arranged around an organ theme inspired by Bach's organ setting of the chorale Wachetauf. Beatle George Harrison admits that the soaring trumpet obbligato in Penny Lane was inspired by the Second Brandenburg Concerto. Three of the five members of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble are Juilliard products who double on oboe, organ...
...Great of Prussia, a gifted amateur musician, invited him to the court at Potsdam. When he arrived, Frederick immediately dismissed his minions, exclaiming: "Old Bach is here!" The two then spent an evening together, and Bach delighted Frederick by improvising a fugue on one of Frederick's themes. After returning home, Bach wrote an extensive chamber cycle on the same theme and sent it to Frederick with the title Musical Offering. Soon after this, Bach's overworked eyes as well as his rugged constitution began to fail. Two operations on his eyes only weakened him further. Finally...
...dance critics, the court majority said that any dance is automatically entitled to First Amendment protection unless the state can prove that it is obscene. Relying on U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, the California justices declared that the state had the burden of proving that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance "taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest," is "utterly without redeeming social value" and affronts "contemporary community standards." In fact, said the justices, the state had failed to introduce expert testimony to prove that Kelley's act went beyond the community's standards...