Word: andr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection of Victorian photographs of the Indian rajah (at Asia House Gallery) and a full-dress retrospective of French Surrealist André Masson (at the Museum of Modern Art)? Only, this July, in New York...
...withdrawing the film after only a nine-day showing. The reason: five masked men, styling themselves "The Revolutionary Commandos of the Christian West," trashed one of the movie houses, because they found the film "offensive to the memory of the dead." While the movie's director, former Journalist André Halimi, sought less timorous distributors, Let's Sing electrified audiences at three showings during the Cannes International Film Festival...
...found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing circle in Paris...
...misleading label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, to Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque, to Kees van Dongen and Henri Manguin...
...later daringly appeared, navel exposed, in costume sans midriff. One of her most famous performances was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931: she sang the difficult "Mad Scene" in Lucia di Lammermoor in the key of F, an entire tone higher than the original score. Married to Conductor André Kostelanetz from 1938 until their divorce in 1958, Pons moved to Dallas in 1961 and remained active in local opera...