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...easily answered. "We're very childish in our notions as to what constitutes originality in music," wrote the composer and music critic Deems Taylor in 1939. "Suppose a play should open tomorrow in which one of the actors had the line, 'Now go to the door and stay there till we call.' How many dramatic critics would point out that it was a direct steal from Shakespeare? But it is. It's straight out of the first scene of the third act of Macbeth. If a new symphony contained that much of a quotation from Beethoven or Wagner, the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Has Somebody Stolen Their Song? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...coffee for five minutes, that just cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets you on the phone and spends 45 minutes networking! "You've been taught that it's rude to hang up on someone," Baker advises. "So wait till you're talking, then push the button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...Grifasi) are tired of scabbing for the company and ready to lead their men to revolt. Elma (Mary McDonnell), a young widow, will stand up against the goons who board at her home. And her 14-year-old son (Will Oldham), a prodigy preacher, will update New Testament parables till Jesus sounds like Joe Hill. A ragtag army, but with the organizer's help they may actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life As A Bed of Coal MATEWAN | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...more stimulating environment of live performance, the interpretation gleamed. His is not the rhythmically incisive, sharply chiseled Mozart currently in favor in the wake of the original-instruments revolution, but a mellower, more reflective interpretation that prizes sonority and melodic beauty. Bass Samuel Ramey was a swaggering antihero, cocky till the end, and Soprano Julia Varady brought a sweet pathos to the obsessive Donna Elvira. Director Michael Hampe's staging was conventional until the climax. When the Commendatore dragged the unrepentant Don to perdition, the Iberian setting vanished to reveal a cosmic firmament, quenching the earthly fires of lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart, Moses and Money | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...Till Daddy takes the gun away...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Sizing Up a Genuine Bragg-Art | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

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