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...were all very interested in being avant garde," Gorey said in one interview...
Your article on the "New Tonalists," composers who have turned away from hard-edged, avant-garde sounds, troubled me [MUSIC, March 6]. I don't like the idea that there are only two 20th century musical camps and that consonance and dissonance are the determining factors. Composers of the Romantic era took the tonal system they inherited from the classicists and extended it. As a composer, I want to have an unlimited number of tools at my disposal. This idea of consonance vs. dissonance, simplicity vs. complexity and Brussels sprouts vs. steak forces me to limit myself by choosing...
...even know the word had another meaning." It's not shocking that young Mark moved from suburban St. Louis to find drugs on a big campus. But it's a little surprising where he's encountered ecstasy, a drug first used in the 1970s by a small group of avant-garde psychotherapists--at frat houses. As president of the university's Interfraternity Council, Bradford has found himself in meetings with police to discuss frat boys' growing appetite for a drug today usually associated with teen ravers, gay men and what's left of America's aging hippies. "It's everywhere...
...Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution to 20th century culture would have been slight...
...former prodigy from New York City who produced his Op. 1, a piano sonata, at 15, Liebermann is one of the New Tonalists, a group of composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World War II. Unlike such devotees of dissonance as Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, they happily embrace traditional tonality, the harmonic language of most Western music, from Bach to rock. "I don't believe in the cliche that art has to reflect its times--that since we're living in a horrible...