Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything else about this musical is marvelously right. What is there to say about Stephen Sondheim, the composer-lyricist, except that his songs are the most unusual ever written for the American musical stage? There are no conventional, Tin-Pan-Alley tunes here: the influences are Weill and Mahler and the melodies trail off into surprising and often jarring rhapsodies of sound...
...spent the last few years on a prolonged shopping spree. There are no meatless Wednesdays, no food queues, few shortages of any kind. Shiny new appliances, from electric rice cookers to transistor radios, occupy conspicuous nooks even in the homes of unskilled laborers. Television antennas rise everywhere, even over tin-roofed huts. Saigon's greenery has suffered less damage from Communist bombs than from the choking exhaust fumes of Mercedes autos and Honda motorcycles...
...less so than when Blue Grass was first created) is a descendant of the traditional music brought by early settlers from England and preserved in the southern mountains. Blue Grass Music bears, both in spirit and complexity, about the same relationship to modern country music as jazz has to Tin Pan Alley pop music. It was originated 30 years ago by one man, Bill Monroe. The story of Blue Grass Music is the story of its creator...
...treasure boards of tin cans? they flatten out for their hut roofs...