Word: avante
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...some Romantic operas are funny (e.g., Wagner's Die Meistersinger), can some post-Romantic operas be called post-funny? That was the question raised last week by the newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant to rear. UBU REX, which opened the Munich Opera Festival, is based on the 1896 play Ubu roi, by French Absurdist Alfred Jarry, about a loathsome clod (read: typical bourgeois) who murders the King of Poland and, supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past...
LIUBOV POPOVA RETROSPECTIVE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Though she died at 35 in 1924, Popova is considered one of the leading artists of the Russian avant-garde. She was a determined painter with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling. June 23 through...
...IRONY TOWER by Andrew Solomon (Knopf; $25). Glasnost brought the best of times and the worst of times to the Soviet Union's avant-garde artists. While giving them new freedoms and access to lucrative Western markets, it has destroyed the sense of community that nurtured their artistic vision and shaped their values. Solomon shares their triumphs and disappointments in this vivid, poignant and often hilarious narrative...
Nagy says he remembers when the term PC was used in a joking, self-mocking manner by "avant-garde" students at Currier House at the beginning of his tenure as Master of the dorm...
Sampling enthusiasts range from the funk-and-roll bands Faith No More and Fishbone to the avant-garde gurus David Byrne and Brian Eno. On Fishbone's acclaimed new album, The Reality of Our Surroundings, the band incorporates church bells and human screams. "We use sampling to enhance the integrity of our music," says drummer Phillip Fisher. "Butif you put a collage together, you should give credit to the places you got your pieces from...