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...Gallery in Buffalo and now at New York's Whitney Museum, is as masterly a demonstration of a sensibility in growth as any living painter could set forth. He is not, as the condescending tag once read, a California artist, but a world figure. He is not an avant-gardist either, and his work keeps alluding to its sources: the color to Bonnard and Matisse, the strong, fractionally unstable drawing to Mondrian and Matisse again. Diebenkorn's best paintings mediate between the moral duty to acknowledge the ancestor and the desire to claim one's own experience...
THESE LITTLE CONCERTS come out of nowhere. Steve Paxton, a member of the New York avant-garde dance circles for the last 15 years, has worked with a Boston friend for much of that, and so it happened that he got together with a local acquaintance, percussionist David Moss, for a recent concert at the King School on Putnam...
...Kushnick's words, a "surrealist love song" about two lovers spending a last night together in the face of the apocalypse; it has seven verses, each of a diffegent mood, meter, and key. It also contains many of the purposely electic elements of Kushnick's "surrealistic neo-class avant garde jazz/rock and roll" music: in this case, a basically straightforward key progression beginning and ending in G minor, and a Beethoven-like hand-over-hand arpegio accentuated the alliteration in Lierberman and Daniel Dern's lyrics...
...accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and Laughing Box." Or take the sentimental favorite. "New York City," which consists of three stoccato piano chords followed by a shout of get out of the way, you fuck." Bruce fittingly calls his music "Surrealist Neo-Classic Avant Garde Jazz/Rock and Roll...
Even if "Land Use Planning: A View from the West," McCall's topic, doesn't send you into paroxisms of intellectual delight, simply listening to McCall talk should be a pleasure. His speaking style is light, slangy, and occasionally outrageous. When governor he hired an avant-garde poet as a speechwriting assistant, and he once read a tract from the libretto of "Hair" to a staid group of Masons. Who know's what he'll say to a group of college students...