Word: estheticism
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From Weber, who thought Beethoven ripe for the madhouse for spreading a dozen notes over five minutes in the opening of his Fourth Symphony; to Schoenberg, trying to convince Mahler that a melody could be produced by passing one note around among several instruments' to Cage, who celebrates the esthetic...
The essence of Schoenberg, Debussy, Berg, and Webern was the acute, almost palpable response to the most minute patterns of life. They expressed this in a new voice of polychromatic sounds of momentary durations. The fluid immediacy of impresssonism and the starker psychology of expressionism began to lose their distinctiveness...
The radical post-war avant-grade split into those wishing to fulfill the logic of dense twelve-tone organization, represented by such composers as Milton Babbitt and Pierre Boulez, and those desiring to create music with the least possible constraints, represented by Cage and Stockhausen. The latter reacted against the...
As his successor, the National Gallery's trustees named the candidate that Walker had groomed for the job, J. (for John) Carter Brown, the gallery's second in command since 1961. At 34, he becomes the youngest director of a major museum in the U.S. Scion of the...
Starting at the bottom, her girdle ($15) and bra-slip ($18) are signed by Emilio Pucci, her stockings, a symphony in mesh Vs, by Valentino. On the outside, looking In, there is Gucci's leather-bound shirtwaist dress, interwoven with an all-over pattern of the letter G-with...