Word: avant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here is a recording long overdue, and not only because it is the first representation of two famous composers. While it might be rash to say that the musical avant garde has lost touch with the concert-going public, it is certain that this public must be educated in a very thorough manner if it is to get more than a shock from a work by Stockhausen. Last year's New Music concerts in Paine Hall included several works by Stockhausen and members of his school; auditors were left with vivid memories of short bursts of highly involved music, inevitably...
...most adventurous big-money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
...news of Godot's creator and another avant-garde beatnik, see BOOKS...
...Alain Robbe-Grillet (219 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75), is based on the author's notion that "the world is neither significant nor absurd. It is. That is the most remarkable thing about it." Proceeding from this Istentialist view, Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that...
...West who came to Harvard because he wanted to be a writer, and the Cambridge community had spawned its share of the literati--from T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Conrad Aiken. The spectrum appeared to be wide enough for Morris--hero of the high school avant-garde. And he brought plenty of yellow paper with...