Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stefan Wolpe (Esoteric). If these three pieces were jazz, they would be called "far out," for German-born, U.S.-naturalized Composer Wolpe. 52, has hewed his way to extremes of modernity. Passacaglia (played by David Tudor) was written in the early '30s, is as dissonant and involved as the...
Worried as to the propriety of the esoteric scripts, a delegation from the Watch and Ward Society arrived to check up on the situation (see cut). The Society was unable to arrive at any conclusions. This was due to the fact that the only person who could translate the various...
Greek Folk Songs and Dances (Royal Greek Festival Co.; Esoteric). Odd and unexpected rhythms, exotic harmonies, haunting melodic patterns and some rarely recorded instruments, e.g., lira (viol), santir (dulcimer), wooden spoons, go into one of the most interesting and unusual albums of the year.
The professional Harvardman will often pick the University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the...
Rather than such splendid but esoteric scenes, Egyptian Painting's editors chose scores of details which are like peeks into the everyday world of numberless days ago. As the pictures show, hunting, fishing, farming, brickmaking, butchering, carpentering, dancing, drinking, feasting and mourning were essentially the same then as now...