Word: anglaises
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Myriad details emerge: the skittering piccolo, singing out over the thundering trombones at the end of the Fantastique finale; the raw, plaintive solo of the cor anglais in the slow movement, forlornly wailing in response to the ominous, muffled strokes of the timpani; the four harps forming a powerful voice...
His instrument for this was color, betokening light. Nice gave him a different light from Paris -- a high, constant effulgence with little gray in it, flooding broadly across sea, city and hills, producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures. It encouraged Matisse to think of space (in particular, the space...
A word of caution is needed: Sargent's output was huge -- more than 800 portraits and innumerable sketches of people and places -- but its high points do stand out, and too many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to...
Looking back, one can see two main reasons why it did. The first was the cynicism and stupidity of most American TV. Essentially, Civilisation succeeded because educated people were sick of being talked down to by the networks, whose cultural coverage, or lack of it, was a byword for inadequacy...
Excerpt "Sedulously avoiding the standard sights is probably the best method of disguising your touristhood. In London one avoids Westminster Abbey and heads in stead for the Earl of Burlington's eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of...