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Cremation is not confined to the dead. There are families in which people burn each other to a crisp daily and dance with desolate glee in the ashes. Despite its title, which suggests arch avant-garde whimsy, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a lacerating account of just such a household...
...shaky. Veteran Trumpeter Miles Davis has adapted to it successfully, but few of the men who originated it get high-paying gigs. Though they are beginning to find audiences on college campuses, they are rarely invited to the big jazz festivals. Like blues and New Orleans jazz before it, avant-garde jazz is already in the early stages of being borrowed from by commercial musicians, mainly white. In some barely recognizable form, its echoes and resonances may dominate part of tomorrow's pop-music scene...
...ballet becomes a mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage to assorted flatulent noises-pings, creaks and suckings. The score, by Avant-Garde Composer Jacob Druckman, is entitled Animus III for Tape and Clarinet...
Charles Eames, avant garde designer and filmmaker, has been appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for next year. Eames will deliver a series of multi-media lecture demonstrations relating to visual communications and the visual environment...
...taking ideas from Rothko, the minimal artist never came near his unique vision. Yet often in the racing movement of the avant-garde an artist may feel that his statements become irrelevant, once someone has said something newer...