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...negative or risible responses elicited in his studio, Picasso did not allow the painting to be exhibited until 1916--but a breakthrough of artistic vision had been achieved. Picasso produced a work that did not resolve tensions and contradictions but flaunted them. And the flattened perspective and angular, almost geometric shapes of Les Demoiselles contained the seeds of Cubism...
After a first half that seemed to stretch on too long, it was perhaps wise to choose Shostakovich's brief, energetic First Synphony to round out the program. The piece's vocabulary was quite different than the Beethoven which had come before, with angular themes, surreptitious-sounding pizzicati, and highly percussive tutti throughout. This idiom seemed to bring out a better side of the orchestra, which took the difficult rhythms in stride, found the wit in some of Shostakovich's jazz-inflected themes, and produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece...
There are also four pieces by the painter Jasper Johns, dealing with angular shapes and a broad expanse of gray. Johns, who began printmaking in 1960, uses the process not to create new works, but to repeat and rework images from his paintings...
Marian Seldes created the role of B in New York and then, appropriately enough, switched to the role of A when the original actress left. As A in this production, she gives an incredibly moving performance, at once domineering and endearing, her angular and expressive face reflecting the character's wide range of emotions. She manages to make these sudden shifts in mood completely believable and captures A's pain and terror at growing...
...chic, they perch themselves near the heavily guarded white tents where designers unveil their seasonal collections. The businessmen, of course, do not come because they are interested in Richard Tyler's position this year on velvet. They want to catch a glimpse of the shows' real centerpieces: the famously angular beauties for whom surnames now seem superfluous: Cindy and Claudia, Linda and Christy, Naomi and Kate...