Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history and the beginning of the myth in a firm, simple and compassionate focus, concentrating on the four years from Elvis' first success to his entrance into the Army in 1958. (A planned second volume will chronicle the years, many of them melancholy, that followed.) Guralnick, an excellent music critic, concentrates on narrative here, and writes evocatively, empathetically, of Elvis' roots and dreams...
...this is something of a triumph for someone who, just two decades ago, viewed composition from the other side of the musical fence. As a critic for the New Statesman and the Spectator, Nyman was a trenchant observer of the avant-garde (in 1968 he coined the term minimal music to describe the emerging Minimalist movement) and in 1974 brilliantly surveyed the field in his book...
...Piano -- was not even nominated for an Academy Award. That says a lot about the Oscars, but it also says something about Michael Nyman, a composer who has never quite received his due. Whether writing for films or turning out concertos, string quartets, ballets and chamber operas, the English critic turned composer is a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic who yearns for wider acceptance. "I've had to contend with a certain amount of envy and puffy-nosed disapproval," he says. "I can do a concert at Festival Hall in London and get a standing ovation, which...
...catalog, Loyrette and Tinterow quote the art critic Jules Castagnary, who wrote in 1867 that the "modern spectacle" sought by the New Painters wasn't a matter of theory, ideology or history but of direct response to the world and its contents. "What need is there to go back through history ... to examine the registers of the imagination?" Castagnary wrote that "beauty is in front of the eyes, not inside the brain; in the present, not in the past ... The universe we have here, before us, is the very one that painting ought to translate...
This grounding in fact, though, and the scientific research that went into the book do make it necessary that a critic attack its propositions on the level of rational discourse, not by using some even stranger theory as a weapon...