Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according to Schwartz, are typical of Marfan's syndrome. In fact, Lincoln's "spiderlike legs," a phrase used by one of the President's contemporaries, was the very simile used in 1896 by French Physician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan when he described the syndrome that was named...
...treat Dada and surrealism on their own terms (those of dandyism, revolt, love, dream and myth) rather than judge them by official "painterly" standards. As a result the show goes further into the labyrinth than any retrospective for years on writers like Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Antonin Artaud, and such painters as Dali, Ernst, Miro, Magritte and Alberto Giacometti...
...Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81 (the Juilliard Quartet, Rudolf Firkusny pianist, Columbia; the same work played by the Cleveland Quartet, Emanuel Ax pianist, RCA). This concert perennial is easily recognized by its opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit...
...Rostropovich, Ma played the first movement of Antonin Dvorak's cello concerto. The composition is a staple in the relatively scant cello repertoire, and as such is probably as familiar to Rostropovich as the Lord's Prayer is to the Pope. Rostropovich, naturally, has thought a great deal about the work, and his suggestions to Ma about performing it, reflected the more than 20 years he has been performing the concerto...
...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...