HAGGADAH DA-VIDA.(The Talk of the Town)(Gershon Kingsley)(Interview)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 17-APR-06

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One recent evening, the composer Gershon Kingsley and his wife, Lillian, had some guests over to their apartment at the Parc Vendome, on West Fifty-sixth Street. The conversation centered on electronic music, which Kingsley pioneered in the nineteen-seventies. One of the guests was a young Englishman named Roger Bennett, whose company, Reboot Stereophonic, has just reissued a two-CD set of Kingsley's music called "God Is a Moog." It includes a piece called "Shabbat for Today" and an electronic operetta titled "The Fifth Cup," which is meant to accompany a Passover seder.

Kingsley is best known for the whizzing and whirring scores he wrote for Coca-Cola and Dunkin' Donuts commercials in the seventies, and for his pingy 1972 composition...

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