Word: expressionism
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Still, the pace of a multi-billion dollar capital campaign may be taking its toll on Rudenstine, Asked about the campaign in a press conference last week, the president's expression grew stern and the customary liveliness disappeared from his voice.
American composers, it seems, have rediscovered a few simple principles that their European counterparts, still symbolically poking their fingers in the eye of audiences while happily enjoying their government subsidies, have forgotten. The human voice is attached to a living being; it is not a mechanical instrument. It has a...
Under pressure from Christian groups and conservative lawmakers, the feds have dropped guidelines intended to prevent religious harassment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission deep-sixed the rules after being swamped with about 100,000 letters of protest. Opponents feared that the rules would go overboard and ban all religious expression...
If ever an American composer was worthy of such thorough examination, surely Joplin is. His great accomplishment was to refine and perfect a kind of protojazz called ragtime. He did not invent it: black musicians along the Mississippi had long been syncopating, or "ragging," the rhythm of such forms as...
The word has not yet got through to Port-au-Prince. Haiti's military junta called its supporters into the streets for what has become a familiar ritual of taunting the U.S. While onlookers sipped rum, 3,000 demonstrators screamed slogans into the microphones of foreign television crews and painted...