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Just as Smith leaves behind the fantasy of primary colors which animates most of Calder's work, he also forsakes the Calderian motif of ingenious effortlessness. Produced in 1960 at the height of post-war economic prosperity, Smith's "Doorway" served notice on Americans that their consumer fantasies of self-fulfillment were only inspiring when left unsatisfied...
Broken Glass. Brown favors what he calls "open form" music. Last week he displayed his style at a concert at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. One of the works on the program, Available Forms I, which is scored for 18 wind, string and percussion players, is a Calderian example of what Brown calls "conceptual mobility." Each of its six pages contains five musical "events," which the instrumentalists play on specific orders from the conductor. In front of the podium is a numbered board with a sliding red arrow; the conductor moves the arrow to give the page...
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