Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] to joySIR – I appreciated your article on human evolution and music ("Why music?", December 20th).
The point of this concert was to show the evolution of music from African Americans starting from slave spirituals up to the popular music of the time, swing.
* "EVOLUTION: THE MUSIC OF JOHN LEWIS," Alice Tully Hall, (212) 72126500.
Featuring the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, 8 p.m. "ELECTRONIC EVOLUTION 5: MUSIC FROM THE ETHER: A CELEBRATION OF THE THEREMIN," New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Few bands and artists have lived and played through the evolution of music, let alone across so many genres.
In fact, no part of "Evolution: The Music of John Lewis," the retrospective concert given by the 80-year-old pianist and composer on Thursday night at Alice Tully Hall, brought to mind much else that's out there in the jazz world.
A frantic consultation with musicologists around the world ensued, as Druyan, who later became Sagan's wife, battled to track down 26 specific recordings, which reflected something of the emergence and evolution of music on Earth.
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"That said, the existence of this neural response, and the method we developed to measure it, provides a tool that could in principle yield insights into the evolution of music.
"A theatrical campaign is not that much different than going on tour with a musician, and creating an event," Mr. Fenkel said, calling the evolution from music to film "natural" and "awesome".
