Word: avant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space cadets and thrown into Captain Chefone's dungeon, accused of fouling the radiation apparatus that powered the electronic brain. As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music. Occasion: the premiere of Swedish Composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara, widely hailed as the first operatic excursion into the world of outer space...
...mysterious thing," Poggioli commented, "that it is virtually impossible to continue writing avant-garde literature. under a totalitarian regine." The reason for this, Poggioli said, is that any literature written under such a regime must reflect a reversion to tradition, and, "since the tradition upheld under the Soviet regime is cheap, Zhivago represents a search for something else...
Further, "it is paradoxical that under a totalitarian regime, an aesthetic deviant has a more difficult time than a political deviant," Poggiolo commented. "You don't create avant-garde works alone in the cellar of a Moscow or Leningrad building--you need a little group...
...aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern" comfort and culture. If art appreciation no longer constitutes the badge of the avant-garde nor is limited to the culture containers at Smith and Wellesley, a parallel phenomenon to the culturalization of the bourgeoisie has been the increasingly bourgeois nature of culture. In gaining wider acceptance the forms have undergone alterations: the "modern split level colonial ranch house with cathedral ceilings" advertised...
...Choreographer Béjart, 32, organized his own company four years ago, he banned tutus, dressed his dancers in leotards, slacks and T shirts, began using the music of Composer Henry (Voyage to the Heart of a Child, Arcane II). Since then, he has built a large and enthusiastic avant-garde following. Béjart likes to work with concrete music because it approximates "the infinite variety of the body's natural movements," and there is a system in his mad creations. He explains: "Concrete music can express all emotions, but it must shun the obvious sound effects...