Quoth Daniel, upon reading my last post, "wow, that was long!"
Okay, fine. ^__^ Today you get three shorties.
There are certain pieces of art that demarcate a "before and after;" there was a moment, after all, before I heard Bernstein's Candide or saw Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood or opened the Mahabharata.
And there was a time before I ever heard the soundtrack to Hair.
(Ennis, don't laugh!)
I may be the only person of my generation currently rocking out to the 1960s American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, but it's so intricate and tricksy and travels just along the edge of harmonic predictability.
Here's a clip of that old favorite "Age of Aquarius." Note how the composer creates tension by combining a syncopated bass line against a rapid, arrythmic electric guitar against an almost-behind-the-beat hi-hat. (It's a little fuzzy in the clip and sounds much better on my own sound system.)
Also yay Twyla Tharp.
It also occurs to me that I am, at the moment, surrounded by members of the Age of Aquarius. (No, not you guys... the people in the cubes next to me.) And I wonder, just a bit.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Shorty #1: Hair
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Hey, I'm not *that* old. That was before I was born, although, yes, I heard the soundtrack early. Well, I heard the major singles early, had to wait to hear the whole thing until later, and didn't see it staged until college.
My goodness, you caught the post even before I had a chance to revise it!
And it was all mismashed up, too!
Ah, well.
That is to say I always go back and tweak sentences, etc. after the first posting, after I see what it looks like in the layout and what I've forgotten to add.
And I didn't think that you would laugh because of any kind of age, but because of my complete ignorance to this musical before now. ^__^
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