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Twittering & Rumbling. Today he is chairman of the composition faculty at the Yale Music School and an influential experimentalist in modern music. It seems hard to believe, but it is the same Powell-same impressive talent, same capacity for being impressed by it himself. Take, for example, the series of electronic pieces that he recently presented in a special concert at the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discotheque. It was more carefully planned and carried out than most such performances, and it amounted to a kaleidoscope of the new Powell music. There were shim mering, post-Webern instrumental sonorities, crackling percussion...
...Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...
...Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...
Within the limitations of available funds, Russian physicists are free to choose their own projects, Popov pointed out. Just as scientists here usually need grants to carry out large programs, a Soviet experimentalist must obtain funds from the Soviet Academy of Sciences if he wishes to conduct a project that would require the purchase of new equipment...
...Home, 10 to 5." For pint-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) Experimentalist Kiesler, whose radical departures have landed him more commissions for models than buildings, the World House was the first opportunity in decades to see his continuous-flowing forms grow to lifesize. Inside the entrance, an aluminum-covered ceiling slopes upward toward a two-story interior patio with a white marble island surrounded by a jet-fed black glass pool. A glass-sided stairway leading to the second floor is supported at pinpoints on a white Alabama marble cantilever protruding from a structural steel pillar that swells and tapers...