Word: avant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Avant garde composer Philip Glass, whose ensemble performed in Sanders Theatre Sunday night, combined tapes and questions in a discussion of his approach to music before about 60 people in Currier House yesterday...
...kinky, you say? Kind of off-the-wall? Well, maybe. But WHRB sees its role as just that--giving airtime to avant-garde groups and offering parallel fare to that played on the large, popular radio stations...
Impressive? Certainly. But whether WHRB's avant-garde programming is pleasing its audience is still unclear. A female undergraduate commented that one night she couldn't find WHRB on her radio and switched the tuner futilely for several minutes. Suddenly, she said, she came upon some "very strange" rock music...
...Mehta move was the grandest, most publicized stroke of all: his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better...
...avant-garde of the litigant spirit that is most unsettling. If one can blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned...