Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S. Army in 1949 turned the theater over to Wolfgang and Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandsons, certain stipulations were part of the deal. One was that the directors should eliminate all Nazi undertones in their mountings of the music dramas. Another, not unrelated, was that British...
Sole Control. As long as Wieland lived, the new Bayreuth flourished. He was the artistic director; Wolfgang stuck to business management. Mama Winifred stayed away. Wieland's new productions were aimed imaginatively toward new, always controversial, often brilliantly successful dramatic ideals. Instead of the heavily literal, violently brassy, pompous...
Ray fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a...
Sgt. Pepper, however, is a legitimate hunting ground for Beatleologists, and if Tolstoy was right in saying that the key to art is the "wee bit," never was there a more artistic pop album. It is loaded with every significant little touch that the Beatles could fit into three months...
The clincher in the argument for Sgt. Pepper's artistic standing is the fact that the album is not just a collection of singles, but a whole. It is structured much like a musical comedy, and it is a study of all the lonely people and where they have all...