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...hustle chess in Washington Square. A few fortunate musicians have found niches in education-- Ran Blake and Ken McIntyre head departments at the New England Conservatory and at SUNY Old Westbury. Alternative education centers offer a tenuous existence to some, like Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and River's Soho performance loft, both of which depend on a precarious assortment of grants and private donations for support. Life on the road is still possible, but it takes a lot of luck and effort to overcome a nation's inertial indifference. Dexter Gordon, probably the finest tenor saxophonist...
DIRECTOR JON PRINCE has curiously chosen to update the stories themselves, while maintaining the '60s quality of the original production. What made this show work in 1970 was Sills' combination of unadulterated language and a natural environment. The environment is still natural--at times this production oozes Woodstock--but Prince has trampled on some of the stories, adding characterizations that some of his actors can't handle and moving back and forth from the narrate-your-own-action to insert-a-narrator form. Story Theatre asks the audience to suspend itself for a couple of hours and asks a small...
...insure standards of "redeeming artistic value." Television asserted itself, legitimately or not, in our living rooms, raising a generation on a steady diet of situation comedy, game show and soap opera. It was the '60s generation which, at decade's end, gathered its countercultural offshoots at the three-day Woodstock "celebration," a rock festival that has been symbolically praised or blamed for everything right, or wrong, with the 1960s...
...this century. A few months ago, several leading rock artists unselfishly donated their time and talents to what were, for many their first political benefits; New York's MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future were, in many ways, the '70s answer to Woodstock...
Although Young gets carried away with stage antics in the movie, his between-song-schticks are less obtrusive on Live Rust. After a pre-recorded bit of nostalgia from Woodstock, he launches into "The Needle and the Damage Done," his sermon on heroin and eulogy for the friends it has conquered...