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Innovator Foss, who is back teaching at U.C.L.A. after a year's sabbatical for composition, does not expect his system to replace the written score. He himself has just completed a fully written-out composition, Time Cycle, for Soprano and Orchestra (to texts by Auden, Housman, Kafka and Nietzsche), which will be played for the first time by the New York Philharmonic this week. Between numbers, Foss's ensemble will do improvised "commentaries" on the songs. With the spread of controlled improvisation, Foss thinks the day may come when a typical concert will begin with bits of Bartok...
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. There may be nothing very new in this collection of Auden's recent poems, but at 53 the poet is still shrewd, amusing, and prodigiously talented...
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. At 53, Poet Auden may long ago have said everything he had to say, but his talent remains prodigious, and in this collection of recent poems, his ruminative restatements are often effective...
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. At 53, Poet Auden may long ago have said everything he had to say, but his talent remains prodigious, and in this collection of poems written during the last five years, his ruminative restatements are often effective...
Clio is more poetically ruminative than ambitious, makes no attempt to spell out the problems of the human condition that led to the warnings and preachments of The Age of Anxiety. Auden has no palliatives now, no longer looks for comfort or understanding in Marx, Freud or egoistic routes to salvation. Instead, there is an air of hard-won shrewdness and a recourse to God, whose mysterious being is suggested with what might seem Audenesque skepticism if it were not so typically an Auden commitment. For Poet Auden, who frankly admits to his friends that he feels obliged...