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...passion, which is a dirty word from the Freshman Mixer to the Class Marshal Elections, has reared its dread head. We are being forced to be passionate or, if we choose not, to be anti-intellectual or perhaps immoral or perhaps wrong...
...short extremely happy, history of The Streetchoir began a few Fridays ago at an Adams House mixer. Crowds at mixers are not generally known for their intelligence and concentration, but that Friday, as fact and fuure legend will bear out, 90 per cent of the crowd stopped dancing and stood around the platform to watch Streetchoir's galvanizing first public performance. The tidal wave of applause that followed their last set rivalled the electrical intensity of Michael Tschudin's powerful organ solos...
Aspiring lawyers at the Harkness mixer Saturday night deluged The Streetchoir with requests for Louie Louie and "something slower we can dance to," but for the most part the group only plays its own material, a hard blues-rock incorporating the best of Chicago and San Francisco, frequently extending toward what's best in modern jazz. When they do play someone else's songs (Mick Jagger's Empty Heart, for one), Ivers tends to throw his harp away and accompany the other four with a running chorus of "I hate this song!" yelled at the audience. "We're The Streetchoir...
...Cement Mixer, Burt Lancaster doing acrobatics, Jayne Mansfield playing the violin, Lauren Bacall reading Casey at the Bat, and James Cagney and Jack Lemmon dancing...
Some pavilions strive solely for immediate effect. In the style of the ancient sorcerers, the Kaleidoscope pavilion does it all with mirrors. To the accompaniment of mind-bending, discothquè-loud cacophony, reflections of colors burst and bleed like paint blended in a mixer; flowers open in the sun, firecrackers explode, seagulls turn red against a green sky. A violent visual punhouse, Kaleidoscope is the medium, the message and the massage. It is probably as near as most viewers will get to a psychedelic trip; for most, it will be close enough for discomfort...