Word: demoniacal
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...best of young American pianists but, more simply, that he is one of the best of all pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
...Demoniac or Harmonic...
...your review of the forthcoming African sculpture exhibition in the British Museum [Oct. 5] ... when you talk about "harmony and order" being sacrificed to "demoniac fervor," it appears as if you would have never really seen African sculptures. They are, in fact, of great harmony and order of volumes, expressing a deeply felt religious fervor . . . African sculpture is one of the great artistic achievements, comparable to any of the great periods in the history...
...savage experimentation by African art. But moderns, for the most part, have imitated the forms of African sculpture, divorced from the spirit inside them. By civilized standards, that spirit is nightmarishly superstitious. Harmony and order-as much a part of the classical art heritage as realism-are sacrificed to demoniac fervor. But African sculpture has an intensity greater than any that modern art has yet achieved...
More, than half a million Americans during the past year have been bewitched by the Devil. This particular Devil is a jovial old party who wears a rumpled dinner jacket over his generous paunch, and sports no horns or tail. His glance, though sometimes leering, is never demoniac, and he talks about Heaven and Hell with a twinkle, like a fat, fond uncle...