Word: avant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cathedral in London, where they hope to stage Superstar, explained hastily that he had "nothing to do with the casting." By then, the producers were getting a little nervous too, and the offer was withdrawn. No matter. The frustrated Messiah has a project of another stripe coming up. Avant-Garde magazine will soon publish his latest artistic efforts-a series of lithographs depicting Mr. and Mrs. Lennon making love...
Henze: Three Cantatas (Deutsche Grammophon). Once a leading German avant-garde composer, Henze often writes mistily modern and weirdly beautiful music. In this score, German Soprano Edda Moser floats through the vocal stratosphere with astonishing ease, and demonstrates a bewildering range of sound and color...
...Faith and Unbelief in the Contemporary Cinema"-and illustrated it with uncut showings of avant-garde films by Antonioni, Bresson, Bunuel, Dreyer, Pasolini and Bergman. Vatican conservatives howled "Pornography!" when Taddei ran Bergman's erotic The Silence, but the show went...
...were not ready in time, review copies were sent out in the form of two test pressings, each with a recorded side and a blank side. Most reviewers recognized the dubs for what they were. But Richard Williams, critic for the pop weekly Melody Maker, was caught with his avant-garde down. After listening earnestly to each of the four sides, Williams solemnly reported that sides two and four consisted entirely of single tones, "presumably produced electronically." Their pitch, he noted, varied by microtones and "this oscillation produces an almost subliminal uneven 'beat' which maintains interest." Added Williams...
...career in Mexico, where he made his landmark in the Cinema of Cruelty, Los Olvidados, a fierce, searing lament for the Mexican poor. The cinema, he claimed, was "most reminiscent of the work of the mind during sleep"-and he kept on dreaming onscreen. Soon foreign film makers-and avant-garde American ones-began to imitate his trancelike style...