Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quadrivium Spring Concert--Marleen Montgomery directs at First Church in Cmabridge, 11 Garden St., at 8:15 p.m. Tickets $1.50. Call 876-5829 for info...
...Evening of Irish Folk Music with Joe and Antoinette McKenna--First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., 8 p.m. Call...
...mark the event, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has put on a sumptuous show titled "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism." It contains 81 paintings-a third of them lent by the Musée Marmottan in Paris, all of them images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor...
...play between air colors in the water and the solider rafts of lilies crossing them like clouds. Toward the end of his life, as his vision degenerated-first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need to. He had constructed a symbolist heaven on his front doorstep, and (since nature and culture fuse in the hortus conclusus-the enclosed garden-of paradise) the circle of his desires was complete. The result was the most consoling art of the 20th century...
...driven by the demonic notion that they could, some day, be swans. Most are mistaken. Once in a great while though, the real thing comes along, and word rapidly spreads through one of the world's oldest permanent floating meritocracies. Leningrad hears it, and so do Stuttgart, Covent Garden and New York: a star is born who might, just might, be capable of being made. So recognized, this singular creature is then cosseted and punished, cradled from outside interruptions and given every imaginable opportunity to fall smack on her overextended haunches. Meanwhile, the cognoscenti settle back for a long wait...