Word: oratorio
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Once new jocks are hired, they are drilled for a couple of months in the Drake style. The big idea is to unclutter and speed up the pace. The next recording is introduced during the fadeout of the last one. Singing station identifications, which sometimes run at oratorio length elsewhere, are chopped to H seconds on Drake stations. Commercials are reduced to 13 minutes, 40 seconds an hour-about one-third less than the U.S. average. Newscasts are scheduled at unconventional times, such as 20 minutes after the hour. Thus, when the competition is carrying news, Drake-trained deejays...
Anguish to Joy. Continuing in its tradition of skillful, venturesome productions, the Santa Fe company last week gave the U.S. premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's dark, somber statement of musical theosophy, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder). Schoenberg wrote it in 1917 as an oratorio, but left it unfinished at his death in 1951. Santa Fe presented it as a visually cool, shadow-filled, dreamlike mystery play. In the final scene, the Dying Person (Soprano Patricia Wise) is led up a silver-covered staircase as she approaches death; then she begins to realize that she has gone through many...
Astonished by the break in his usual four-letter rhetoric, she asked: "Who wrote that?" "I did," confessed Mitchum. "When I was 15. I was Bridgeport's answer to Nathalia Crane."* For once he was not swaggering. He once wrote an oratorio for a Jewish-refugee-benefit show produced and directed by Orson Welles. He wrote a short story, Thunder Road, and got it turned into a film co-starring his son Jim. He also composed two original songs for the picture...
...discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
WOLFGANG Amadeus Mozart is history's most famous child prodigy. A virtuoso clavierist and a more than competent organist and violinist as well, he was equally boggling as performer, improviser, and composer. He fashioned his first minuets at the age of six, his first symphony approaching nine, his first oratorio at eleven, and his first opera at twelve...