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Some 20 blocks away from the Sheraton Hotel where the former King aide spoke is one of the taverns he referred to. Its doors are usually fastened back. The voices and the jukebox mingle with the noise outside. The bar's dark interior seems just an extension of the sidewalk, a part of the neighborhood...
Kaempfert cultivated his taste for "foreign music" when he led a sextet in a U.S. Army officers' club in Bremerhaven. By cribbing from the jukebox, he learned all the popular American songs, soon developed a skill for arranging and composing foxtrotting tunes in the big-band idiom. Since his "music that does not disturb," as he calls it, is geared for U.S. audiences, he is virtually unknown in his own country. But Kaempfert does not care; last year he grossed $950,000. Strangers ought to make 'him a millionaire. "Maybe then," says his wife, "they will pay attention...
...gonna turn the jukebox high...
Role of Chance. His robots have turned into cybernetic escapades. Behind their Plexiglas facades, these new sculptures are as immediate and erratic as a jukebox full of Beatles. His sculptures are "superfluous, relating to no specific function. They are instruments for me to express something." What? The answer seems to be the way that the world appears to be controlled by chance. Says he: "I assume that our society has sensed this unpredictability. Look at the number of insurance com panies." In the future, he hopes to get his messages across more directly by making his audience an active part...
...jukebox, which will arrive within the next few days, will be installed in Parlor B on the second floor. It will feature a selection of popular music, which will be changed periodically...