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Article: Spotlight; The Group With a Synth Of Adventure; Tangerine Dream's Long Electronic Music Quest
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- The Washington Post
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- September 7, 1988
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Synthesist Edgar Froese, the founder of Tangerine Dream,
remembers all too well the response the group received at its debut
performance in Berlin in 1969, including the "apples, oranges and
bananas" that pelted the stage. Although the concert was scheduled
to run for 1 1/2 hours, the response was so negative that the band
walked off stage after only 20 minutes.
"There was no audience for our music then," said Froese, who
will bring Tangerine Dream to the Kennedy Center Thursday night.
"None whatsoever ... But we wanted to explore how these new
instruments could be used in music, because no one had really looked
into that. They were being used for measurements and technical
adjustments. ...