Word: zarathustra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoke started to filter out into the audience from backstage. The crowd was getting tense, eager to see what Guster had in store. At last, the three band members, dressed in tuxedos and seated in aluminum space-age chairs, descended to the smoke filled stage to "Also Sprach Zarathustra," the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey. As I soon learned from the band members, the audience was there to help Guster ring in the new millennium...
...young crowd stranger than one would find at the Rocky Horror Picture Show; a countdown to the end of the millennium-cum-doomsday-inspired Y2K electrical blackout; and the three members of Guster--bedecked in black tie---descending to the stage in special chairs while Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" whipped the crowd into a frenzy...
...music selection managed to be tasteful, despite the focus on now cliche classical favorites. After all, when a piece is more recognized by the name of the movie it was featured in--the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra?--the professional group has a hard time making an overplayed theme unique. However, when Joseph Lin '00 appeared on stage, violin in hand, the concert began to offer the special excitement that comes with a live performance. Roberta Flack introduced him as a theology concentrator (well, she actually said major) and introduced Tchaikovsky as "that...
...music selection managed to be tasteful, despite the focus on now cliche classical favorites. After all, when a piece is more recognized by the name of the movie it was featured in--the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra?--the professional group has a hard time making an overplayed theme unique. However, when Joseph Lin '00 appeared on stage, violin in hand, the concert began to offer the special excitement that comes with a live performance. Roberta Flack introduced him as a theology concentrator (well, she actually said major) and introduced Tchaikovsky as "that...
What's needed to ward off incipient rallentando is a big, distracting counternoise, a Zarathustra crescendo. No one would wish Bill Clinton to achieve exactly the second-term salvation--if that is the word--that history arranged for Franklin Roosevelt. F.D.R.'s second term represented a fairly dramatic falling off from the brisk exuberance of the first. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, with humiliating results. The Great Depression ground on. Abroad, the international order began to disintegrate. America split bitterly over what, if anything, to do about it. All of this set the stage for F.D.R. to transcend...