Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program was typical for conductor James Yannatos. With 18th or early 19th century classic and large Romantic works at either end of his programs, Yannatos has persistently scheduled pieces of 20th century music--often recent compositions--as keystones of his concerts. On Friday he led the HRO in performances of Mozart's Overture to Die Zauberfloete, the new clarinet concerto by professor emeritus Walter Piston, and that song to end all songs, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. What more could one ask of an evening...
...through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched and picketed and advertised. Already infected with malefic characters whose political education ended with 19th century nihilism as updated by Che Guevara, the peace movement has too often degenerated into caterwaul and caricature and, even worse, noncommunication. McCarthy's candidacy will at last give legitimate dissenters a civilized political voice...
...temporarily. Assuming the estimated $4,000,000 can be raised, Wright's spiritual presence seems likely to settle down with relics from the Meiji period (1868-1912). The prospect of becoming a part of Japan's architectural heritage would probably have pleased him, since he greatly admired 19th century Japanese prints, which, said he, preached "the gospel of the elimination of the insignificant...
...unfair, but not altogether untrue summary of Morris' lifelong attempt to replant some of the virtues of medieval Christendom into the sooty soil of 19th century England...
...without salary, Daniel Seltzer ambles grotesquely around the wooden rectangular stage on which most of Prince Erieis performed. He is Jim Fisk, fat man who rejected the potentially bleak future indicated by his past, becoming instead one of the richest, most unscrupulous Americans in the latter part of the 19th Century. Fisk and partner Jay Gould began with the Erie railroad and, at the height of their spectacular careers, virtually cornered and manipulated the country's private gold reserve...