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A 54 años de “Woodstock Music and Art Fair”

A 54 años de “Woodstock Music and Art Fair” #aperturaintelectual #vmrfaintelectual @victormanrf @Victor M. Reyes Ferriz @vicmanrf @victormrferriz Víctor Manuel Reyes Ferriz

15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A 54 años de “Woodstock Music and Art Fair” POR: VÍCTOR MANUEL REYES FERRIZ Si existe un evento musical que ha permeado por generaciones, ese es Woodstock y hoy se cumplen cincuenta y cuatro años de esa inauguración que logró reunir a casi de 500.000 almas en la ciudad Neoyorquina de Bethel durante 3 días donde la música y la “paz” vibró en todo su esplendor. La idea de…

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Sparkle (1976)

In 1959, three young women in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects came together to form a musical trio. Sixteen-year-old Florence Ballard first convinced her best friend, Mary Wilson, fifteen, to join the group; Wilson then recruited Diana Ross, also fifteen, to join. On weekday evenings and weekends, the Primettes (the “sister group” to the Primes, later known as the Temptations) performed at local clubs and talent shows across Detroit, often covering hits from the Drifters and Ray Charles. The Primettes became a local sensation, winning a competition at the 1960 International Freedom Festival, and attracting the attention of Motown founder and executive Berry Gordy. Gordy signed the Primettes to a contract in early 1961, on stipulation they change their name. They became the Supremes.

One decade later in American cinema, the major Hollywood studios began experimenting with and quickly realized the box office appeal of blaxploitation. Blaxploitation is a type of exploitation film that features heavily – if not entirely – black casts and narratives, often aimed at an urban African-American audience. Generally, the subgenre concurrently provided a valuable avenue for black representation in Hollywood (on- and off-camera) and narratives concerning the community, all while upholding damaging white stereotypes about black people (i.e., violence, substance abuse, the hypersexualization of black women and highly polarized sexualization of black men with little in-between, etc.).

Released by Warner Bros., Sam O’Steen’s Sparkle, takes inspiration from the history of the original members of the Supremes. Sparkle arrived long after the breakup of the original Supremes (Ross departed in 1970; Ballard in 1967, but passed away two months before Sparkle’s release) and before the 1981 Broadway debut of Dreamgirls (which has a narrative with the same inspiration and story arc). Likewise, the film made its theatrical debut at a moment when blaxploitation was undoubtedly in decline. Repeated criticism from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the decision of some of the subgenre’s stars to pursue interests elsewhere, and impatience for blaxploitation’s typical low production values all contributed to that drop-off. Sparkle carries elements of blaxploitation (as do many films centered on African-American characters), but, despite its myriad of flaws, it represents a glimpse of the future of black American cinema.

It is 1958 in Harlem, New York City. The Williams sisters – youngest Sparkle (Cara; the obvious Diana Ross analogue), middle sister Delores (Dwan Smith), and eldest Sister (Lonette McKee; whose character starts out as the lead singer) – and friends Stix (Philip Michael Thomas) and Levi (Dorian Harewood) decide to take their church singing experience to form a musical quintet. The sisters’ mother, Effie (Mary Alice), works long hours as a maid, and has little time to tend to her children. Without much consideration other than requesting promises that the Williams daughters’ schoolwork remains their priority, she lends her blessing to their idea. Dubbing themselves the Hearts, a successful showing at a local talent competition has everyone imagining how they might have a future as professional musicians. Both young men drop out of the group – Levi so that he can take a job with a gangster named Satin (Tony King); Stix becomes the now-trio’s manager and co-composer. The trio, now known as Sister and the Sisters (I would have kept the original name), soon become the headline act at the sordid Shan-Doo Club. There, the malicious intentions of others and unfortunate incidents will challenge the fabric of the group and the bonds of sisterhood between Sparkle, Delores, and Sister.

At a brisk ninety-eight minutes, Sparkle wants to balance the narratives for Sparkle, Delores, and Sister as much as it can. But Joel Schumacher’s (1978’s The Wiz, 2004’s The Phantom of the Opera) screenplay and Howard Rosenman’s (1991’s Father of the Bride, 2017’s Call Me By Your Name) story serves no one particularly well. Given that the film is named after the youngest of the Williams sisters, it makes sense that Sparkle receives the most attention. However, the pedestrian dialogue – especially in the most heightened romantic and violent moments of the films – provides Irene Cara little to work with. And if the ostensible lead actress is ill-served by the screenplay, the situation is worse for everyone else. Sparkle’s storyline – despite a worthy message of how she cannot depend entirely on others to find happiness or success – lurches from one cliché to another, the typical rags-to-riches story executed more interestingly in scores of films that came before and after this.

The connections to Delores and Sister’s stories are likewise poorly handled and edited, with transitions too abrupt for any sort of reflection about the scene prior. We learn about Dolores’ interest in joining the civil rights movement, but this character detail has no depth despite its centrality to a crucial plot point. Sister’s eventual drug abuse and domestic (and potentially, sexual) abuse from her partner is entirely one-dimensional – as if lifted from a shabby blaxploitation film with even less regard for its characters. Her fate feels preordained from the moment we learn of her quandary. Sister’s part in Sparkle is sensationalistic, torturing her and her loving sisters almost for the sake of it.

I can understand how the extremely simplified dialogue in Sparkle might be realistic, but the screenplay is also devoid of geographic, historical, and racial vernacular that places the audience firmly in the film’s setting. Rarely did I ever feel that this was a film set in Harlem, let alone New York City in the late 1950s. New York City – and Harlem moreso than most neighborhoods – is itself a character in many films set in the Big Apple. Bruce Surtees’ (1971’s The Beguiled, 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop) anonymous cinematography also undermines this aspect of the film. The lack of variety beyond Surtees’ medium and medium-close shots renders Sparkle a tedious watch. The film never suggests the claustrophobia that many contemporary independent films rely on to suggest intimacy or entrapment. Nor does the camera pull back far enough to bask in the magnificence of New York City, any of the featured musical venues, or even the bodily movement in some of the sisters’ musical performances.

Surtees’ purported lack of experience in lighting for scenes featuring non-white people also results in all the musical performances – outside of the spotlight beaming towards any of the performers – being surrounded in pitch darkness. In terms of lighting, this is an exceptionally dark movie during those moments, as one can barely make out backgrounds or furniture or even some facial expressions and features because of the poor lighting. It is almost as if Surtees wanted to capture the impression that one experiences when coming into a dimly lit room after exiting a daytime exterior. One’s eyes have not adjusted to the darkness, so the interior seems darker than it is. The only problem is that Surtees never adjusts, and it is not clear what purpose this serves emotionally, narratively, or even atmospherically (because almost all other interior scenes in Sparkle are also underlit, just not as intensely as the musical scenes). Your experience in watching Sparkle may vary depending on the quality of the print you watch, largely due to the poor cinematography and lighting that makes certain formats and editions unwatchable. This write-up is based on the print made available for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

The composer for Sparkle, Curtis Mayfield, was an innovator in soul music and 1960s R&B. Mayfield, one of the original members of the Impressions (whose original lead singer was Jerry Butler; “For Your Precious Love”, “People Get Ready”), left the group in 1970 for a solo career. His filmography, though not lengthy, nevertheless included one of the most popular blaxploitation films of all in Super Fly (1972). Part of Mayfield’s reasoning for leaving the Impressions was to find the freedom to integrate his music with a social consciousness (as one can hear in the Impressions’ “People Get Ready” and the songs in Super Fly). But for a project like Sparkle, Mayfield would have to find a way to replicate the Motown sound, style, and lyrics of early ‘60s girl groups. He may not have been the ideal candidate for this mode of R&B and soul (and one can hear it in this film at times as a handful of the songs pass too long without a quotation of the chorus), but Mayfield produces an always-listenable score and set of songs for Sparkle.

The Hearts’ debut number, “Jump”, has minimal instrumentation: percussion and select stabs of brass. It is a basic start, acted wonderfully by the quintet by showcasing the initial awkwardness that only begins to truly groove about a minute in. The boys, Stix and Levi, are obviously vestigial to the performance because neither sings, both only half-clumsily (look at 1:23 in the provided video) adding to the choreography. It works in the narrative context of the film. Once the Hearts become Sister and the Sisters, then the performances garner more musical interest. “Hooked On Your Love”, the group’s debut performance at the Shan-Doo Club, might be the most Supremes-like song in the soundtrack. From the choreography that just evokes the grainy videos one might find on YouTube of early ‘60s girl groups, the era-appropriate vocal ornamentations, and the fact that all three actresses (especially) Cara are having a blast performing, “Hooked On Your Love” is just a knockout of period musical goodness. I just wish the camera drew back a little longer so we could see all three sisters for longer stretches of time (and again, pity about the lighting). Cross-cut with images of Sister’s relationship and personal troubles, “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” is a wonderful mid-film number, for the same reasons as “Hooked On Your Love” works musically. Here, however, there is more narrative and visual interest. Its placement and the editing here – see those wary glances from their mother towards the disreputable crowd during the performance – is the film’s Rubicon crossing.

With such a great slate of songs, what a shame it is that none of the film’s original performances are available in soundtrack form. Instead, Aretha Franklin is the sole performer on the soundtrack, as she covers all the songs. No disrespect to Aretha (in my book, at least in the top five of vocalists in any genre during the last century), but the original performers deserved more respect in a commercial release of the film’s soundtrack. As it is, the original in-film performances are easily searchable, so one can enjoy the movie and the soundtrack versions and appreciate the artistry of Aretha, as well as that of Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, and Dwan Smith.

A year after appearing in Aaron Loves Angela (1975), Irene Cara had now starred in two major studio production a year apart. Neither film was a box office success – Sparkle’s box office records remain unknown, so I am going off educated guesses from a variety of sources – but this was still a point of pride for Cara to achieve so much just as she turned seventeen years old. Her best-known accomplishments in acting and singing in Fame (1980) and her Academy Award win for the title song to Flashdance (1983) would not be far off. Lonette McKee, in her film debut, would carve out a stable career through the 1970s and ‘80s, with appearances in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club (1984) and Walter Hill’s Brewster’s Millions (1985). Dwan Smith has largely faded from the public eye since Sparkle.

As one of the late Whitney Houston’s favorite films, Sparkle was remade in 2012 starring American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, and Tika Sumpter as the sisters and Houston as their imperious evangelical mother. 2012’s Sparkle was Houston’s final film, and has been almost universally compared unfavorably to the original. Sparkle has, over the years, become a cult favorite among African-American audiences. Curtis Mayfield’s songs and associated performances, alongside a sincere (if incomplete and poorly photographed) depiction of black life in New York City were more than enough to help the film achieve that status. My reservations aside, the original Sparkle deserves that chance for audience reevaluation.

My rating: 5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog. Half-points are always rounded down.

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

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Star Trek

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I could not get Star Trek out of my head. I’ve been listening to various Star Trek soundtracks for two weeks.

There are 8 different Star Trek TV shows. There are 13 different movies. Multiple composers deserve recognition for the beautiful soundtracks they’ve written.

i made this table in microsoft word when i should have been writing an essay

i love the music for these movies/tv shows - i only started watching star trek like a month but now i’m ridiculously invested, and HALF of telling good stories is the music and these composers did so well

i’ve been bopping to all of these soundtracks

guys the music for star trek is just so gorgeous and creative, please listen to it and give these composers the recognition that they fucking deserve

if i ever become a conductor which would be super fucking cool i’m gonna conduct the end credits from star trek: first contact bc they’re so pretty

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Woodstock

On 16 August 2019 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock! Woodstock was an American music festival held on 15–18 August 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as “an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”, it was held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock. It was alternatively referred to as the…

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"Lets Go Back to Woodstock" is a documentary about the decade defining music at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in 1969 that was held in Bethel, NY. During a time of assassinations, riots, wars and protests in the late 60's, the young generation was calling for peace and love. In came the idea of Woodstock, a festival with the hook "3 Days of Peace, Love and Music". More than 500,000 people came to take in the sights and sounds of the event with nothing but peace, love and music in their minds. Unfortunately, nearly 50 years later almost nothing has changed. Protests, riots and marches calling for peace and love are still all over the world; reminiscent of past Woodstockers. 

IT SEEMS LIKE WE NEED IT NOW MORE THAN EVER. SO LETS GO BACK TO WOODSTOCK!

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Did you know that a Princeton alum organized Woodstock in 1969? The concert Joel Rosenman ’63 organized with his business partner, John Roberts, turned out to be more popular than initially expected, as an audience of more than 400,000 overwhelmed the dairy farm in Bethel, New York where it took place August 15-18, 1969. They had a permit for just 50,000 attendees. As a result, Rosenman and Roberts spent more than a decade working to repay debts they incurred in association with the three-day music festival best known as Woodstock (though Woodstock is 60 miles from Bethel).

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“give me a F, give me a U, give me a C, give me a K- what have you got”

guess who was there- I’m the one with the long hair- by the way in the bottom right picture

August 15, 1969

On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more. Plans for the festival were on the verge of foundering, however, after both Woodstock and the nearby town of Wallkill denied permission to hold the event. Dairy farmer Max Yasgur came to the rescue at the last minute, giving the promoters access to his 600 acres of land in Bethel, some 50 miles from Woodstock.

Early estimates of attendance increased from 50,000 to around 200,000, but by the time the gates opened on Friday, August 15, more than 400,000 people were clamoring to get in. Those without tickets simply walked through gaps in the fences, and the organizers were eventually forced to make the event free of charge. Folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens kicked off the event with a long set, and Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie also performed on Friday night.

Though Woodstock had left its promoters nearly bankrupt, their ownership of the film and recording rights more than compensated for the losses after the release of a hit documentary film in 1970. Later music festivals inspired by Woodstock’s success failed to live up to its standard, and the festival still stands for many as a example of America’s 1960s youth counterculture at its best.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY AUGUST 17 Woodstock Music Festival concludes On August 17, 1969, the grooviest event in music history–the Woodstock Music & Art Fair–draws to a close after three days of peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in upstate New York.

Conceived as “Three Days of Peace and Music,” Woodstock was a product of a partnership between John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang. Their idea was to make enough money from the event to build a recording studio near the arty New York town of Woodstock. When they couldn’t find an appropriate venue in the town itself, the promoters decided to hold the festival on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York—some 50 miles from Woodstock—owned by Max Yasgur.

By the time the weekend of the festival arrived, the group had sold a total of 186,000 tickets and expected no more than 200,000 people to show up. By Friday night, however, thousands of eager early arrivals were pushing against the entrance gates. Fearing they could not control the crowds, the promoters made the decision to open the concert to everyone, free of charge. Close to half a million people attended Woodstock, jamming the roads around Bethel with eight miles of traffic.

Soaked by rain and wallowing in the muddy mess of Yasgur’s fields, young fans best described as “hippies” euphorically took in the performances of acts like Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The Who performed in the early morning hours of August 17, with Roger Daltrey belting out “See Me, Feel Me,” from the now-classic album Tommy just as the sun began to rise. The most memorable moment of the concert for many fans was the closing performance by Jimi Hendrix, who gave a rambling, rocking solo guitar performance of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

With not enough bathroom facilities and first-aid tents to accommodate such a huge crowd, many described the atmosphere at the festival as chaotic. There were surprisingly few episodes of violence, though one teenager was accidentally run over and killed by a tractor and another died from a drug overdose. A number of musicians performed songs expressing their opposition to the Vietnam War, a sentiment that was enthusiastically shared by the vast majority of the audience. Later, the term “Woodstock Nation” would be used as a general term to describe the youth counterculture of the 1960s.

A 25th anniversary celebration of Woodstock took place in 1994 in Saugerties, New York. Known as Woodstock II, the concert featured Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills and Nash as well as newer acts such as Nine Inch Nails and Green Day. Held over another rainy, muddy weekend, the event drew an estimated 300,000 people. A major 50th anniversary festival was planned for 2019, but never came to fruition.

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#UnDíaComoHoy: 15 de agosto en la historia

El 15 de agosto es el 227.º día del año. Quedan 138 días para finalizar el año. El día de hoy te presentamos una lista de eventos importantes que ocurrieron un día como hoy 15 de agosto.

-1519: Pedro Arias Dávila funda la ciudad de Panamá, con una población fija de unos 100 habitantes, por lo que se constituye en la primera ciudad permanente a orillas del Océano Pacífico.

-1527: nace Fray Luis de León, poeta y religioso agustino español. Fue uno de los escritores más importantes de la segunda fase del Renacimiento español junto con Francisco de Aldana, Alonso de Ercilla, Fernando de Herrera y San Juan de la Cruz. Su obra forma parte de la literatura ascética de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI y está inspirada por el deseo del alma de alejarse de todo lo terrenal para poder alcanzar lo prometido por Dios, identificado con la paz y el conocimiento. Los temas morales y ascéticos dominan toda su obra.

-1537: Juan de Salazar y Espinosa de los Monteros funda la Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción convirtiéndose así en el establecimiento permanente más antiguo fundado por los españoles en la cuenca del Río de la Plata. Con el paso del tiempo será la capital del Paraguay.

-1620: el navío Mayflower parte del puerto de Southampton, Inglaterra. Este navío fue de las primeras expediciones de los británicos al Nuevo Mundo.

-1769: nace en Ajaccio (Córcega) Napoleón Bonaparte, emperador de Francia bajo el nombre de Napoleón I, y uno de los mayores estrategas y conquistadores de la historia. Napoleón resultó ser un administrador competente al proporcionar a todos los países conquistados una Constitución. Abolió feudalismos a la vez que estableció gobiernos eficaces. En su país, siendo Emperador, revisó y agrupó las leyes en códigos e incorporó algunos logros de la Revolución Francesa, como la tolerancia religiosa.

-1884: la Academia de Medicina de París aprueba el método Pasteur de curación de la rabia.

-1908: se autoriza en Prusia el ingreso de las mujeres en las Universidades.

-1914: el vapor Ancon se convirtió en el primer buque en cruzar el canal de Panamá. Así comenzó a funcionar una de las obras mas ambiciosas de la historia humana. Desde el inicio de su construcción en noviembre de 1903, se excavaron 24,4 millones de metros cúbicos de tierra en un ambiente plagado de tormentas, mosquitos y aludes que costó la vida a 5.609 de los 56.000 trabajadores contratados para la obra. Finalmente se completó un paso de 80 kilómetros de extensión que una los océanos Atlántico y Pacifico. El Canal reduce el tiempo y costo para el paso transoceánico, que antes debía realizarse en viajes de varias semanas a través del extremo sur de América. Con la ayuda de exclusas y compuertas, el tránsito por el Canal de Panamá demanda hoy entre 8 y 10 horas.

-1925: se estrena ‘La quimera del oro’ en Nueva York, primer largometraje de Charles Chaplin.

-1932: empieza a funcionar la emisora de televisión neoyorquina CBS, que difunde la primera serie del mundo: Revista mundial.

-1939: se descubren pinturas rupestres en la cueva de los Murciélagos, cerca de Jumilla (Murcia).

-1954: nace Stieg Larsson, escritor sueco. Periodista y escritor sueco. Saltó a la fama tras su muerte, con la publicación de la trilogía de novelas policiacas Millennium, formada por Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina y La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire.

-1963: nace Alejandro González Iñárritu, director, productor y guionista mexicano. Conocido por películas como Amores perros, 21 Grams, Birdman, The Revenant, entre otras.

-1969: en una aldea de la ciudad de Bethel, en Nueva York, Estados Unidos, comenzaba el festival de música de Woodstock, uno de los más famosos de la historia. El propósito inicial de este evento era el de juntar fondos para construir un estudio de grabación cerca de la ciudad de Woodstock. El festival fue producido por John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield y Michael Lang. A pesar de su inexperiencia en la producción de eventos de este calibre, los jóvenes promotores consiguieron que numerosos grandes artistas aceptaran participar, como The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix y Grateful Dead entre muchos otros. El día de apertura del festival, asistieron alrededor de 400.000 personas. Aquellos que no tenían entradas, comenzaron a pasar a través de los huecos de las rejas que rodeaban el predio. Finalmente, los organizadores se vieron obligados a convertirlo en un evento gratuito. Músicos como Santana y Joe Cocker vivieron en Woodstock los comienzos de sus exitosas carreras. Aunque el festival en sí significó un fracaso económico para sus organizadores, los derechos de grabación y filmación compensaron las pérdidas luego de que se estrenara en 1970 el famoso documental “Woodstock: 3 días de paz y música”.

-1972: nace Ben Affleck, actor y director estadounidense. Ganador del Óscar a mejor director por Argo. Conocido por actuar en películas como Pearl Harbor, Argo, Batman v Superman, Good Will Hunting, Argo, entre otras.

-1989: nace Joe Jonas, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense. Miembro de la boy-ban Jonas Brothers y ahora del grupo DNCE.

-1990: nace Jennifer Lawrence, actriz estadounidense. Reconocida por largometrajes como The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, Winter’s Bone, Joy, entre otros.

-1994: capturan en Sudán al terrorista venezolano Ilich Ramírez, conocido como Carlos El Chacal.

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This August 1969 file photo shows a portion of the 400,000 concert goers who attended the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on a 600-acre pasture near Bethel, N.Y. To some Americans, the pivotal festival of "peace and music" 50 years ago was an inspiring moment of countercultural community and youthful freethinking. To others, it was an outrageous display of indulgence, moral decay and insouciance in a time of war. To still others, it was just a world apart from theirs.

Back To The Garden: Woodstock Remembered                    On 88.1 WVPE Monday, August 19 From 9-11 PM EST

Woodstock organizers, musicians and audience members recall the 1969 music festival that rocked the world in more ways than one.  Music and memories from the historic event include interviews with with Woodstock organizers Michael Lang, Joel Rosenman, and the late John Roberts, artists Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey and Joe Cocker, and audience members Ron Petras, Vivian Goodman and Danny Diamond.  Music performances from many of the artists are featured: Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker, CSNY, The Who, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez and many more.

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More than 400,000 people attended the Woodstock Music Festival on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near Bethel, NY, which took place 15-18 August 1969.

Organized by New York City entrepreneurs John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, concert promoter Michael Lang, and music executive Artie Kornfeld, they anticipated around 50,000 - 150,000 people would attend the festival. More than 186,000 tickets were sold, but the event quickly became “free” as fences were left unbuilt (due to the promoters’ need to change the venue from Wallkill, NY with less than a month before the event).

Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first of 32 acts to agree to play. Richie Havens was the first to perform (he was the first musician to arrive, as others could not get to the stage due to traffic jams. Helicopters were quickly hired to get musicians to and from the stage area). Jimi Hendrix was the last act to perform, and due to delays, he did not take the stage until 8:30 am on Monday morning (by which time, the crowd had dwindled to an estimated 30,000 - 100,000).

Most media coverage emphasized the problems that occurred, including traffic, mud, and health issues (the US Army flew in 45 doctors to assist), and neglected the more positive aspects. Despite initial anger by the town (some residents called for a boycott of Yasgur’s dairy products), they volunteered help when needed, especially when vendors ran out of food on Saturday (residents made sandwiches, sent vegetables and canned goods, and provided more than 100,000 eggs. The Yasgurs donated milk and yogurt).

The organizers lost an estimated $1.5 million dollars (nearly $10 million in today’s value), and did not see a profit from the album, film, and merchandise until 1980.

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Of the four men who brainstormed the mega-concert event, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang, Joel and Artie were the oldest at only 27 years old.

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Il mondo non sarebbe stato mai più lo stesso. Cinquant’anni fa esatti iniziava il Festival di Woodstock.

Un milione di persone in una fattoria da 600 acri a Bethel, New York (che in verità dista 50 km da Woodstock) per un evento irripetibile che è stato lo zenith della filosofia sesso, droga e rock 'n' roll.

Giovani, idealisti, pacifisti, (dis)illusi, rabbiosi, diversi da tutto e tutti. Il canto del cigno di una generazione che voleva davvero cambiare il mondo.

Inizia tutto con quattro ventenni con una buona esperienza organizzativa ma che avevano intuito il potenziale del rock psichedelico e della subcultura fiorita nei sixties: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld e Michael Lang.

Erano rampanti e imprenditori: non certo dei fricchettoni. Volevano guadagnare con la loro intuizione.

Fondarono la Woodstock Ventures, Inc., e tirarono dentro per primi i Creedence Clearwater Revival.

La prima location individuata era stata l'Howard Mills Industrial Park di Wallkill, New York, ma gli amministratori se la fecero sotto all’ultimo davanti all’idea di migliaia di hippy invadere la loro piccola zona perbene.

Disperati, i quattro, ad un mese dal festival, trovarono la salvezza in... un contadino di cinquant’anni.

Si chiamava Max Yasgur, e possedeva un’area del White Lake a Bethel, circondata dalle montagne di Catskill.

La leggenda dei casini sulle infrastrutture, la sicurezza e le regole è verissima.

Le biglietterie, le recinzioni, i bagni, persino i padiglioni per gli artisti che si dovevano esibire non erano ancora pronti quando la folla iniziò ad arrivare.

L’organizzazione aveva pre-venduto centomila biglietti. Arrivarono a partecipare oltre quattrocentomila persone al giorno, in totale un milione.

Nessuno poteva riuscire a controllare... quindi “liberi tutti”.

Nessuna violenza, ma pioggia e inondazioni misero a dura prova tutti. Ci furono un paio di morti, uno per incidente, uno per overdose.

Alla fine, tutti credevano nel fare l’amore e non la guerra. Questo di sicuro ha contribuito a limitare l’anarchia della folla in mezzo all’anarchia dell’organizzazione.

Una comunità hippy della California, la Hog Farm, fa incaricata di creare un parco giochi per i bambini, una cucina gratuita e una tenda per chi assumeva troppi acidi.

La cosa più assurda è anche la più ridicola: le autorità locali inviarono solo una dozzina di agenti delle forze dell'ordine per vegliare sull’evento.

Woodstock vide trentadue esibizioni, molte delle quali entrate nella storia. Ci sono stati Richie Havens, Ravi Shankar, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez (incinta di sei mesi), Santana, Canned Heat, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) e Jimi Hendrix.

Tra quelli che si rifiutarono di essere presenti (e magari poi si sono pentiti....) Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Roy Rogers, John Lennon e Rolling Stones.

Oggi, mezzo secolo dopo, si può andare al Bethel Woods Center for the Arts e visitare il terreno dove Woodstock, ci sono anche una sala concerti all'aperto e un museo dedicato agli anni '60.

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WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION (2019)

Featuring John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Michael Lang, Stan Goldstein, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Paul Kantner, Joe Cocker, Joel Makower, Henry Diltz, John Morris, Donald Goldmacher, Jon Jaboolian, Katherine Daye, Mel Lawrence, Stan Goldstein, John Morris, Bob Spitz, Susie Kaufman, John Conway, Miriam Yasgur, Wes Pomeroy, Wavy Gravy, Tom Law, Marion Vassmer, Arthur Vassmer, Debra Conway, Louis Ratner, Peter Beren, Ticia Agri, Chip Monck, Paul George, Laureen Starobin, Joe Tinkelman, Susan Reynolds, Michael Lindsey, Carol Green, Barnard Collier, Chris Moore, Rick Dills, Jahanara Romney, Barbara Erskine Miller, Gordon Winarick, Leni Binder, Bill Ward, Vic Wells and James Salzer.

Written by Barak Goodman & Don Kleszy.

Directed by Barak Goodman.

Distributed by PBS Distribution. 97 minutes. Not Rated.

As we close in on the 50th anniversary of one of the most legendary concerts ever, three days of peace and music which ended up drawing nearly a half a million fans, it is a good time to look back at this iconic event.

Of course, Woodstock is already the subject of one of the most popular documentaries ever. So, how much can Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation add to our understanding of what happened on those summer days in Bethel, NY?

Not all that much, honestly. Which does not mean that it is not an enjoyable nostalgic look back at the event. It’s just that this festival has been examined exhaustively for nearly 50 years. How much new is there really to say?

Still, I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen the footage of Woodstock – particularly the crowds and passersby – look so crisp and modern. Compared to the muddy footage of the original Woodstock movie (and lots of other earlier film about the festival), much of this old film positively pops on screen, to the point where it almost feels like a modern reenactment of what happened. (There are enough background shots that are obviously impossible to recreate that makes that unlikely and near impossible.)

Three Days That Defined a Generation interviews many of the people who were behind the idea of the festival (though Artie Kornfeld is conspicuous in his absence). They also tracked down the people who worked to create and run the show, quite a few fans who experienced it and local townspeople whose bucolic little village never before (or since) saw such a massive event.

One slight problem with this doc – the music gets a bit of a short shift. They do show clips of some of the most obvious musical highlights; Jimi Hendrix’ “Star Spangled Banner,” Richie Havens’ opening set and improvised song “Freedom,” The Who closing down the second night. However, there are relatively few songs shown from the three days (and I get it, they are probably expensive to license).

Also, only four of the musical artists who performed are interviewed about the experience �� and three of those four artists are dead, so chances are those quotes were taken from archival footage. (There are no talking heads in this movie. All interviews are audio only, run over film of the event.)

However, Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation does a good job of showing how the festival fit in to the historical makeup of the late 60s, and how much of a wondrous miracle it was that the weekend proceeded with little violence, few arrests, no deaths, nothing but peace and love.

As stated before, you aren’t going to learn much that is new about Woodstock from this film. Still, sometimes it is enough just to go back to the garden.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2019 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: June 14, 2019.