Word: classicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says German Conductor Hermann Scherchen: "I enjoy doing what other conductors don't want to do or can't do." Known to U.S. listeners-from his records only-as a master of the classical repertory, he is equally famed in Europe as the tireless proselytizer for modern music...
A good Communist can still go to church in East Germany-provided his reasons are purely esthetic. A worried young comrade had asked the Communist youth paper, Junge Welt, whether a "true materialist" was doing right in listening to concerts and classical music in church. Replied Propagandist Gerhart Eisler in...
"Never in my whole life have I believed in God nor do I intend to start. I consider myself a true materialist. That never stopped me from visiting churches . . . splendid monuments of the past ... I have heard some very good concerts in various churches and still like to attend them...
Tucked into a dip in the plateau to avoid challenging the famed outline of the Parthenon, Athens' Acropolis Museum is an inconspicuous but memorable shrine to the great moment when European art was born. In little more than a century, Greek sculpture passed from the archaic, which was mainly...
Archaic Greek sculpture was Near Eastern in its hieratic stiffness and austerity, putting mind over matter and awe over pleasure. It was intended not to produce an illusion of reality, but rather to lift the temple visitor into an other-worldly realm of contemplation. This conception of sculpture reigned supreme...