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...begin with, Gertrude Stein went to live with her brother Leo in Paris in 1906 at 27 due de Fleurus and became promoter of the avant-garde: "The Mother Goose of Montparnasse...
What did the Steins see? What did these visual artists see? Why was this the avant-garde? We get only hints of the answers...
Herself a poet and critic (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Miss Borroff spent last spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...
...Boulez, who takes over as music director of the New York Philharmonic next season, recently journeyed to the U.S. and announced various plans for revivifying the programs of the Philharmonic. Among them: the idea of snaring young listeners by taking members of the orchestra to Greenwich Village for four avant-garde evenings, to be called "Prospective Encounters...
...Boulez sees it, youthful Villagers will be invited for any time between 7 and midnight to "encounter" not only the music but some strenuously avant-garde composers themselves. Boulez clearly hopes there will be as many rappers as listeners...