Word: toccata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Fox, a nonsectarian theist, held the prestigious post of organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church. In those days, his most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...
...appearance of abstract art in Disney's work was fleeting. There was the Toccata and Fugue in Fantasia, with its pastel runs of animated Kandinsky. Now and then the studio would come up with an image that, while not really abstract, seems a distant reference to early European constructivism like the gush of music drawn as prismatic blocks issuing from the mouth of a dancing horn in Make Mine Music (1946). And, more distantly still, some of the Disney fantasies do run parallel to themes of high art, without displaying any awareness of their patrician Doppelgängers...
...Jane Seymour" movement, Wakeman first recorded an original 4¾ minute toccata on the St. Giles organ; then, back in the studio, he dubbed it over with drums, bass and synthesizer...
Some of Eames' award winning films include "Blacktop and Parade" (1950), "A Communication Primer" (1953), "House" (1955), "Toccata for Toy Trains" (1957), "Math Peep Shows" (1961), and "Think" (multi-screen...