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...that sounds cavalier of me. I also lose my option to work, because if I lose too many fortunes for too many people they're not going to give me the money to work. Now I've got to tell you that I don't think I'm very avant-garde, so I'm willing to put their money where my head is because the shows never come off that avant-garde (which could scare investors off). You see, I've spoiled my investors. They've made a lot of money with me for a long, long time...
...think people were a little confused. They don't think symphonies should be funny," said Painter, Composer and Author (Clockwork Orange) Anthony Burgess after hearing his Symphony C performed for a bewildered but appreciative audience at the University of Iowa. The avant-garde composition began "as an English dance rhapsody and developed into a symphony more or less against my will," explained Burgess. Its finale is "corny, full of schmalz, with a mandolin tinkling away in the background," and at the end "the orchestra plays a single fortissimo chord of C major and everybody goes off for a drink...
...Wall. This place on Main Street in Cambridge was always impossible to list last year because the programs they would run were so damn complicated--the prices, times, and length of programs varied as randomly as the images in an avant-garde film. This, in fact, is what they tend to show--Off the Wall sees itself as an alternative moviehouse, showing shorts, experimental films video, non-sexist and non-violent film. Now they've changed to showing programs for longer stretches, and the program of shorts they're running now is there is their kick-off flick. Short films...
...Loeb Drama Center introductory meeting. The freshman avant garde will turn out en masse for this meeting. Because of a lack of interest and a general overproduction of shows freshmen can advance fast in Harvard dramatic circles. But most likely half the group that is kneeling on the theater rug in this jam-packed meeting is there simply to sign up to be ushers and get into the productions for free...
...they really were. Though it has not always understood them, the U.S. middle class has in fact lionized its writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this tradition, Warren's fear that creators will suddenly be ostracized seems unduly somber...