Word: avant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Figaro, Davis also seems to be declaring a middle-ground approach to repertory between battered war-horses and uncompromising avant-garde works. He intends to balance what he considers the true classic tradition-operas like Otello, Boris Godunov and the Ring-with occasional forays into the new and experimental. Next July, he will offer Taverner, a harshly dissonant new opera about a 16th century composer. Written by one of England's leading young composers, Peter Maxwell Davies, the work will be produced by Film Director Ken Russell (The Devils, The Boy Friend...
...Beck first came to public attention in 1965 when he replaced Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds. A bold innovator from the beginning, Beck struck down the barriers of traditional blues that Clapton had built around the group, and almost single-handedly raised the Yardbirds to the status of the avant-garde group of the sixties. He was the first English blues guitarist to make extensive use of the wah-wah pedal and the fuzz box (electronic devices for manipulating the sound of a guitar). Beck's first album with the Yardbirds, A Rave Up, contained three rock classics...
...gone. The group of friends and colleagues has dwindled, for Picasso has outlived them. Matisse, Braque, Gris, Léger, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gide, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Eluard, Breton, Sabartès, Gertrude Stein-almost all the friends and legendary figures who made the "heroic" years of the French avant-garde and constituted the tribunal against which Picasso could measure himself-are dead. "When I see you," he recently told one friend, Photographer Georges Brassai, "my first reaction is to reach in my pocket for a package of cigarettes to offer you one, like the old days. I know very well...
...Other avant-garde artists have used human models and animals in their assemblages. Harrison filled his tanks with 135 catfish, 96 oysters, eleven lobsters, two crayfish and innumerable tiny brine shrimp to demonstrate, he said, how man might live in a polluted environment by harvesting fish. On opening night, 35 of the catfish were scheduled to be electrocuted, and served up to specially invited guests along with hush puppies and salad. "My piece is about the cycle of life," Harrison explained...
...spend a good deal of their time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they say but only if they choose from a set of "officially-(approved) creative" activities: for instance, writing a fake Peace Corps journal instead of having geography class; or making an avant-garden environment form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes to hold his student's attention. He had his class pretend...