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Syracuse Herald Journal
Feb. 9, 1970
Synthesizer stars in music art show
The famous Moog Synthesizer, invented by Trumansburg's Robert Moog will play a major part in the music-art program "The Sight of Music," which plays University Regent Theater Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m.
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New York Post
March 12, 1970
Grammys Go to the Moog And Blood, Sweat & Tears By MARY CAMPBELL
The nine-man rock group Blood, Sweat and Tears, the pop song "Games People Play," and a recording of Bach played on an instrument called the Moog Synthesizer shared top honors last night when the best recordings of 1969 were announced by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Cornell Daily Sun
MAR 17 1970
Inventor Makes Electronic Music By SUE METZGER
Driving down the quiet, small-town streets of Trumansburg one has to be careful lest he miss an unassuming white building. Lodged between a barbershop and a second hand store, it gives no indication that inside is the factory of Moog Synthesizers.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
April 19, 1970
The Moog Eerie Sound Of Music By ROGER BERGERSON Staff Writer
ONE REASON the now apparently disbanded Beatles quit giving concerts several years ago, in the words of John Lennon, was that the increasingly complex electronic music they were recording could not be duplicated before a live audience.
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ITHACA JOURNAL
APRIL 1970
Electronic Music Will Be Big In '70s
By LEONARD FEATHER (Los Angeles Times Service)
At this writing, Walter Carlos' "Switched-on Bach" being the country's No. 1 classical LP after 65 weeks on the charts, it is safe to conjecture that the Moog synthesizer, and electronic music in general, will occupy a central place in the Music of the 1970s..
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Chicago Today
May 7, 1970
Ballet for all-in Moog mood
By Ann Barzel
THE NIKOLAIS Dance theater opened last night with a near sellout in the Harper theater, evidence that the special wizardry of Aiwin Nikolais is attracting a general public.
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Ithaca Journal
Summer 1970
Moog Plans Mini- Synthesizer
By John Peck, Journal Staff Writer
TRUMANSBURG - A few years ago. Robert A. Moog of Trumansburg revolutionized the electronic music industry by inventing what is now the internationally famed Moog synthesizer.
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Electronic Music Set Wednesday
Summer 1970
Electronic music will be presented by Summer-Ithaca at the sixth free, open air Stewart Park concert this summer, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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Billboard
July 11, 1970
Mini-Moog to Be Unveiled at Museum Concert
NEW YORK-The mini-Moog-"a synthesizer the size of an electric office typewriter," invented by Dr. Robert Moog, will be unveiled Aug. 20 at a concert in the Museum of Modern Art. The concert, "A Different Moog" features Dick Hyman and the Children of All Ages.
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The New York Times
August 20, 1970
Hyman, at Museum, Gives Moog Synthesizer Concert
By John S. Wilson
The increasing viability of the Moog synthesizer as a flexible musical instrument was demonstrated by Dick Hyman Thursday night at a concert in the "Jazz in the Garden" series at the Museum of Modern Art.
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