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...contrast to the concerto, a "quirky interpretation," or at least some risk taking was just what Stravinksy's Le Sacre needed. Unfortunately as noted by one fellow concert-goer, "It was played too much like Debussy." That is to say that there was too much late 19th century impressionism and not enough Igor Stravinsky. It's not the type of music that you walk down the Champs-Elysees listening to, which should be evident from the subtitle of the piece, "pictures from Pagan Russia...
...simultaneously intensifying the clarity of appreciation. Like most of the other drawings and photographs exhibited at the Busch, The Schaefer Sisters "clicks" for the viewer just as later Abstract Expressionist pieces "click"; unlike abstract images, however, the presence of a clearly portrayed object confounds any attempt on the museum goer's part to detect feelings of abstract communication or inspiration. Pieces such as Max Beckmann's hollow-eyed Self-Portrait and Lyonel Feiniger's playfully interpretable Hairdresser's Dummy with Mr. and Mrs. Feiniger have the modern emphasis on form which mark their contemporaries in architecture and design, but their...
Later that night, one member of FM visited the Fly Club, where blood alcohol apparently turned to testosterone--transubstantiation run amok as a fight broke out and some Fly guys wrinkled their khakis. One female party-goer, disgusted with the machismo demonstration, remarked, "No matter how much renovation they do, this place will always be a dump...
There, Miles declared himself a "pious agnostic." An agnostic in the usual sense, he thinks that we humans cannot know whether God exists or not, However, unlike most agnostics, he is a regular church-goer. Church attendance is good for society if not for the soul. Miles remarks in The Sentinel that he often leaves church "with gladness and singleness of heart' to love my neighbor as myself." Moreover, he explains, "It is not the saving knowledge I find there...but the admission I make there as nowhere else, that no knowledge saves...
Despite the vehemence of discontented undergraduates that was revealed in a survey last year, the changes are nearly invisible at first glance to the casual Loker-goer...