Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The evolution of the Democratic center from Lancasterism to Tauscherism has not been adequately appreciated. Most of the ink evaluating moderate Democrats in Congress has been spilled on the Blue Dogs, an alliance of mostly Southern, mostly rural, mostly socially conservative House Democrats founded in early 1995. But the Blue...
On Friday night, the overture, though clearly supported by a few more able performers, sounded sadly under-rehearsed. Expression was lacking; even a real sense of unity among the different instruments and the certainty vital to any performance were surprisingly absent.
Purcell's music itself is wonderful, full of interesting harmonies and surprising contrasts. Unfortunately, the beauty of his work is too often obliterated by the shoddy instrumental delivery or weak chorus, if not utterly disguised by the distractingly awful acting. Dido, even in her more musically successful moments, maintains a...
There will always be difficulties in reconciling the discrepancies between artistic representation and historical veracity, since an inherent tension exists between these two media. Although both are members of the shape-shifting club known as the humanities, history is at its core about the interpretation of facts, whereas art, emphasizes...
He tells me that he splits his time between an assistant professor position at UMass Boston and the Archive, and notes that while films that run from Monday through Thursday are generally Harvard course tie-ins, the weekend schedule is his to program as he wishes. I ask how he...