Word: gothicisms
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Bach: Little Organ Book (E. Power Biggs; Victor: 6 sides). Organist Biggs makes Harvard's 18th-Century-model organ sparkle in a sheaf of Gothic choral preludes...
...Lewis love of extravaganza breaks out occasionally, as in his description of the suite occupied by Andy Deacon, the following winter, at a Park Avenue hotel: "Across the room was a Gothic stone fireplace composed of an entire castle transported from Normandy." Here Andy casts his company for a touring production of Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Helpful Beth is taken on as a page and understudy to the star. On that famous lady and on the supporting cast Lewis lavishes his gift for satiric characterization and incident as the troupe journeys from one-night stand to one-night...
Conservative architects (who appropriately had the ground floor) merely tiled the walls with framed photographs of colonial, baroque, gothic and romanesque structures-all built in the U. S. since 1900. Upstairs, modernists ran hog-wild. Their slick, streamlined exhibit had models of their buildings and shrewd camera shots, featured a credo that made traditionalists sputter. Sample sputter-causer: "The heritage of our generation is the accumulated rubbish of a century of fake fronts...
...periods of human perfection-classical times and their own-the era when art. like learning, was primarily an adjunct of the Church. Boston's show concentrates on the Middle Ages' last four centuries (up to 1400), when its biggest and best products were the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals which soared up all over Europe. Since it could not show this monumental architecture, the Boston Museum picked smaller objects to illustrate the basic medieval concept of art: a devotion which lavished technique and materials on the work in hand far beyond any practical need...
...give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever before or since. Crammed into the show's seven galleries are tapestries, jewelry, coffers, chessmen, caskets, cameos, illuminated manuscripts, buckles, reliquaries, candlesticks, vestments, mirrors, rings, enamels, glass, pottery, textiles, Gothic sculpture, painting-from Norway to Byzantium...