Word: argos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That density is the oxygen of outdoor sculpture. It is why Claes Oldenburg's 18-ft.-high red steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark...
Purcell: Ceremonial Music (Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; the English Chamber Orchestra, George Guest conductor; Argo, $5.95). Ranging from the Te Deum and Jubilate, written for St. Cecilia's Day in 1694, to the funeral music for the burial of Queen Mary a year later, this is some of Purcell's-and England's-most eloquent music. The performances, authentically scored to include a consort of sackbuts (precursors of the trombone), display taste as well as a flair for the composer's bold, often harsh harmonic writing...
...Argo were the head, limbs, trunk of a creature, a living thing larger than ourselves,...a thing puzzling out its nature, its swim through process...
...pilot's eyes have changed; the world he sailed, all childish bravura, has grown more dark. Shall we pretend that his darkened seas are a harmless phantasy?...Alas, my friend, he's turned the Argo's prow to the void. We'll watch and wait, follow him into the darkness and through...
Jason weaves his story of the separate episodes of the Argo's voyage into dark-webbed allegories of faithlessness and the absurdity of existence. His final conclusion is not terribly unpredictable...