Word: esotericism
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I. (for Irene) RICE PEREIRA, 45, is a handsome, green-eyed woman who dresses more like a Paris model than the paint-spattered artist she is. Moreover, she can turn from painting to writing esoteric poetry, or to giving a public lecture on abstract art, without batting an eye. When...
"El Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement.
Claverly Hall's wall, long a vehicle for erudite expression and esoteric language, gave local literati a break this week with its first readable sentiment in several months, a limerick in plain English. Apparently scrawled in extreme haste in the dead of night, the limerick reads:
This was not the first time the HGC went esoteric. Davison had objected to the prize song in 1921, and only agreed to enter the contest that year on the understanding that future prize songs should have every contestant's approval. For the next three years Harvard essentially chose the...
Roussel: The Spider's Feast (Paris Philharmonic conducted by René Leibowitz; Esoteric). The composer's most popular work, in an LP première. The music was written for a ballet (vintage 1912) about insects, but it is a work of freshness and real symphonic flow.