Word: eclecticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Boston symphony-goers got to hear the concerto too. What they heard was quite different from the somewhat eclectic Symphony No. 2 of Schuman they had first heard twelve years ago-and rewarded with "practically silence," as Schuman remembers it. A man who used to compose with one...
Restless young "J." Laughlin left Harvard after his freshman year, took off for a Wanderjahr in Europe. There U.S. expatriate writers filled his ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in...