Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout his career, Debussy ranted against the "rhetoric" and the "emphasis" that played so large a part in 19th century musical idiom. Clarity, precision, balance, proportion were the qualities he was trying for-and he achieved them so brilliantly that he became the great emancipator for a whole generation of...
In the book, Soyer lists his cherished qualities in painting as "love, tenderness, intimacy." His portraits are almost always of friends or family, and in one unusually dramatic canvas showing a group of people awaiting the end of the world, he painted himself surrounded by those he loves. He likes...
The most ferocious piece in the show is a star-shaped sculpture of two winged demons riding a couple of monsters, one resembling a mad dog, the other a lunatic pig. It was inspired by a newspaper photo of a band of Southern harridans hissing and screaming epithets at Negro...
Pentagon Pressure. Lockheed's stand was made in the face of uncommon pressure. Last September a presidential fact-finding commission recommended that the emotion-charged union shop controversy in the aerospace industry be settled by putting it to a vote of the workers in each aerospace company. The committee...
Vincent Persichetti's Bagatelles for Band, which began the evening, is an example of this ambivalence. The four movements, while containing interesting rhythmic devices and harmonic structures, were unsatisfying as individual entities and failed to form a coherent whole. Phrases caught the ear, but no meaning or emotion was conveyed...