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...Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
Mondrian was not the only Dutch artist to pursue the dream of social renewal through ideal abstraction-though he was the most gifted one. What of his less renowned colleagues, painters like Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leek and Georges Vantongerloo, architect-designers like J.J.P. Oud or Gerrit Rietveld? Though they all used much the same language of geometrical shapes, primary colors and rectilinear layout, their variety as artists is faithfully rendered in the show...
...masterpiece, the tiny Schroder house in Utrecht, being furnished with anything else. Such interiors were not open to redecoration: the pattern is absolute, the space a sermon. One would need to be the truest of believers to live in such a house, as Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder, who commissioned it from Rietveld in 1923, and still lives there in her 90s, apparently...
...important beginnings in musical history are often easy to identify: the birth of the romantic symphony with Beethoven's Eroica, for example, or the founding of German Romantic opera in Weber's Der Freischütz, or the full flowering of the twelve-tone system with Schoenberg's Op. 25 Piano Suite. Endings, however, are more elusive. When precisely did the Baroque conclude? Did the symphony die with Brahms or Mahler, or is it still a vital form? These are moot questions...
...Berlin film festival, which began its annual run last week, 80 German films were elbowing for attention. The rush of local productions is due in no small degree to generous federal and state subsidies for fringe film makers. But even these have started to pay off. Filmverlag der Autoren, the production company that has supported many pioneers of the new German cinema for more than a decade, finally went into the black last year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders have earned reputations as world-class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic...