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Walker's exhibit unabashedly disturbs the viewer with representation of the images and history underlying racism in America. Like the chromatic form of the piece--black paper on white walls--the exhibit deals with race only in black and white. This form alone, in its insistence on turning negative space...

Author: By Velma M. Mcewen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Collective Unconscious `Reconfigured' in Black and White: Kara Walker | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Since the German musical scale contains an "H" (their "H" is our "B" and their "B" is our "B-flat"), Bach's name spells out a chromatic and eerie four-note melody. According to his son, at the point in the "Art of the Fugue" when Bach brought in that...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Offers Time for Pleasure Reading | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

Senior-citizen status may have been her chronological due, but it never seemed to fit the refined beat of her music, which--young fans in Italy to the contrary--was less straight jazz than pop on an elegant upswing. There is no doubt that Billie Holiday had a darker genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VOICE OF AMERICA: ELLA FITZGERALD (1918-1996) | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

His mastery is perhaps most evident in his recording of the Godowsky piece--a work only the greatest virtuosos will dare--on his 1964 Vanguard album The Virtuoso Piano. Wild commands its many contrapuntal voices, shifting chromatic harmonies and labyrinthine technical complexities. "When the ears become more important than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE LAST OF THE SHOWMEN | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Never rigid, Rosen's ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ABSOLUTE PITCH | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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