Word: eclecticism
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The eclectic, New Age-ish church has grown from 10 members to more than a thousand since 1977. It offers everything from self-help groups like Debtors Anonymous to a "pet ministry" for adopting stray animals. Songs one Sunday ranged from Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' to Danny Boy. In...
THE TITLE OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S LIFE WITH AN IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance...
Sting continues his meditation on the tangled ways of the heart with 10 Summoner's Tales, actually a collection of 11 songs (if you count the Epilogue) that offer few surprises but many familiar pleasures. True to the album's title, which alludes to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Sting...
The musical is a delightfully aware a journey into the wonders of artifice, decadence, play, wit, theatricality, self-parody and stylization. It references such eclectic sources as the environment, gay culture and feminism but treats them lightheartedly matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not...
Lam wasn't by any means the only Latin American painter to make a mark in the Manhattan avant-garde of the '40s, but to see his place one needs to remember that the New York School of the '40s was not the exclusive pantheon of half a dozen Abstract...