Word: esotericism
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The rising tide of applications has had a direct effect on the admisperiences are, we are just as hap-ago Radcliffe accepted 25 such applicants; this year only nine were admitted. The shortage of housing space--a perennial problem since the Second World War--leaves the College with just barely...
What's more, enlargement of the musical audience has further complicated the conflict between radical and conservative by superimposing upon it the polarization of the popular and the esoteric. Because this new audience has a sizable influence in what is played and recorded, music must lessen the gap between the...
The latter course demands over-whelming ability. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein have tried it, but opinions vary on the quality and importance of their most serious works; Archibald Davison gave up composing entirely for education. Such men are often rewarded--and rightly so--with greater fame and financial security...
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was having trouble on another stage. He collaborated on a Swedish translation of esoteric U.S. Writer Djuna Barnes's allusive verse play, The Antiphon, which opened in Stockholm. Critics thought the play largely unintelligible, though one exonerated Hammarskjold, explaining that the translation job was...
Mr. Stern and Columbia Records have done an admirable job with the Festival, but, more important, they have made a very fine movie. By alternating shots of the performers with closeups of the more responsive members of the Festival audience, they have succeeded in relating the music to the listeners...