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...Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted Orsay to begin in 1830, with Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came in, and Mitterrand...
...ought, in the eyes of a retrospective modernism, to have been. Orsay, one feels, was right to include the work of these heroic flatterers and contaminated virtuosos. Not only are they better than we once thought, but they help one recognize the true achievement of the avant-garde alternative. The triumph of the avant- garde over the pompiers has been so complete that one can now look at the losers with calm interest and historical understanding. This is not a matter of camp revival, as some moralists insist, but of real history as against pious polemic...
...Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (Nonesuch/Icon). Not for the squeamish -- or at least not for those who think serious music is something best carried on quietly by consenting adults in the privacy of a concert hall. Gordon, 35, and Zorn, 33, are both members of Manhattan's explosive avant-garde art-rock scene, reveling in hot-wired Farfisas, electric guitars, saxophones and synthesizers. But, as David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar...
Carla Bley, a premier avant-garde jazz composer and musician, and the Harvard Jazz Band played before a capacity crowd of about 350 last night in Agassiz Theatre...
Group Sex is about the improbable romance between Frances Girard, who is a young editor at a New York City publishing house and a lady; and Paul Treat, a steam-headed avant-garde stage director who is definitely no gentleman. Treat is known for his manhandling of the classics -- Peer Gynt performed on stilts, As You Like It featuring seals. Before long he has Frances believing that stilts rescue Ibsen and that seals are ideal companions for Shakespeare's lovers. He also has her playing dubious "primal scenes" -- one is called "Rudolf and Mary," about the suicide pact at Mayerling...