Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blew, stomped and rang their way through Henry Cowell's Pulse, John Cage's Second Construction, William Russell's Chicago Sketches, Lou Harrison's Canticle, Amadeo Roldan's Ritmicas V and VI. When they had finished, the audience gave percussive approval. Wrote Musicritic Alfred Frankenstein in San Francisco's Chronicle: ". . . Endlessly fascinating. I suspect the future of this experiment lies in assimilating itself ultimately to other types of instrumental resource. . . . There was something epical ... in seeing William Russell pound on a suitcase in his Chicago Sketches for the delicious thud that only a suitcase...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...