Word: throwbacks
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...down to earth. Recorded live for the first time, they change head music to body music as they repeat some old songs (Somebody to Lore, Plastic Fantastic Lover). Even so, acid rock is still the foundation of the Airplane, and the eleven-minute Bear Melt is a darkly mysterious throwback to their old surrealistic cerebrations...
...most part, today's composers ignore the concerto. Some believe that it is an anachronism, a throwback to the 19th century, when the individual performer counted most. Others say that it is too expensive to rehearse 100 or so musicians and hire a top-name soloist to perform a new concerto. Both arguments have some justification. Still, audiences love the familiar old concertos as much as ever. And so do pianists, as these releases make clear...
...they ever could get started. Coming a little later, England's Beyond the Fringe had little music and a lot of satire. Wait a Minim, standing somewhere between its predecessors, has its own hybrid identity. While the collapsing songs of Plume abound, so do jeering sketches, and, in a throwback to the original form of the revue, straight musical numbers...
...Armed has fallen on hard times recently: not since Tim Tam carried her devil's red and blue silks to victory in the 1958 Derby has Calumet's owner, Mrs. Gene Markey, even entered a horse in the Run for the Roses. Forward Pass is a throwback to the good old days. A rangy bay with tremendous early speed, he won last March's $134,000 Florida Derby, followed that up with a smashing five-length victory in last week's $32,300 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Ken tucky. With Jockey Milo Valenzuela holding...
Before the French Revolution it was the accepted responsibility of well-heeled aristocrats to pick up the tab for the creative arts, enabling them to flourish without financial cares. As ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness is a throwback-in the best sense-to those gallant times...