Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooke's first version of the symphony, which he estimates is about 85% pure Mahler, was played twice over the BBC in 1960, then banned by the composer's widow, the late Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. Three years later, upon hearing a tape of the broadcast, Alma was "so moved" that she approved "performances in any part of the world...
...program will feature the personal recollections of two Le Corbusier's friends and colleagues, Jose Lois Sert, Dean of the School of Design, and Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture. An exhibition of Le Corbusier's works will be shown next door in the Carpenter Visual Arts Center, the only building Le Cerbusier designed in this country...
Among the guests were Painters Willem deKooning and Ben Shahn, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter, Poetess Marianne Moore, Architects Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...
...even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building in Boston, the bars will hopefully be burst even farther asunder. Whatever emerges, Motherwell will not lack for space: the mural will cover 224 sq. ft., looming high over the lobby...
Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...