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Parisian designers have yielded the frontiers of fashion to London and New York. Many painters in France not only produce strictly for a New York market but also borrow in style from American trends. Among composers too, the avant-garde has moved elsewhere; French musical life has been mediocre for years...
Quirky Kaleidoscope. In fact, for several years Schickele was part of the claustrophobic avant-garde composing scene, filling out his career in cramped cacophony, two-inch newspaper reviews and tiny auditoriums. Yet he rebelled at the snobbish solemnity of it all, not to mention the coldish obscurity. The problem, he decided, was how to model a contemporary career on the standards of the 18th century-when art ists were also entertainers, composers were also performers, and music was written to please people on specific occasions...
...spinning a radio dial rapidly over stations that are broadcasting Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson and the Beatles: fascinating but somewhat dizzying. Though it has not yet achieved a seamless texture, the trio seems well on the way to Schickele's goal of "putting the good stuff from the avant-garde in a less antiseptic context...
...doughtiest people in the publishing business are those who put out avant-garde literary magazines; they seldom make a profit and rarely reach more than 5,000 readers. It must be love of literature that drives them-and properly so, for it happens that these "little magazines" have fostered the early work of the foremost writers of the 20th century...
...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...