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...unremarkable.“Time Out of Mind” was more than a change in fortune for Dylan; it was a change in philosophy, and until “Together Through Life,” that fact was easy to forget. After two albums consisting entirely of folk covers on acoustic guitar, “Time Out of Mind” saw Dylan stepping away from a bare musician’s role and toward a more auteristic philosophy, prompted by Daniel Lanois’ production. The arrangements on that album were lush and spacious, propelled by lively performances...
...contrasting the works of two American composers, showing how each contributed to American Culture in their own way. Mark E. Olson, Assistant Director of Bands at Harvard and the conductor for this concert, explains that “[Copland’s] use of American folk music and jazz captured the ear of the average American,” whereas Charles Ives “was an innovator of rhythm and harmony, often using polyrhythms and cluster chords, a practice rather common today but unheard of at that time.” The contrasts between the two composers are representative...
...also much less likely to do charity work when we can lose our homes in the process. This is a serious problem for the uninsured. Most doctors are pretty decent folk who actually like what they have spent their lives learning to do, and they wouldn't mind doing some free work. As a group, though, we tend to be quite risk averse. We worry about the downside - it's where we live. Our insurance premiums can be crushing: it's $240,000 a year for a neurosurgeon in New York now. One way or another, it's an expense...
Much of Kandinsky's early work drew on the folk art he encountered in Germany and in Russia. The works depict an ideal premodern Russia full of riders, onion domes and walled towns. But even in these first paintings, bright colors were used for effect, not naturalism - trees could be red, hills and horses blue. Pure color would become the central focus of his best works, a focus he pondered in his 1911 manifesto of abstraction, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Art, he wrote in the book, comes from within, from "inner necessity," and colors and shapes speak to people...
...Annual Prefrosh Concert with The Holden Choruses (Paine Hall)— featuring the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society; choral repertoire will range from "Renaissance polyphony to folk songs to modern commissions." Please go to the concert and come back to tell us what that means...