Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything lives and moves across the stone, not with the fluid grace of classical Greece, but to the harsher beat of the darker desert world. But to the artists who shaped the limestone, the lions clearly were heroic. They leap to the attack, roar with indignation; at times they seem to have more humanity than the stiffly muscled and ringleted men who torment them. Always, the lion dies, but his is also the final glory...
Hungary's late great Composer Bela Bartok used to refer fondly to his First Piano Concerto as his "stepchild." Critics have often used harsher terms. "Unmitigated ugliness," wrote the Nation at the work's U.S. premiere. That was in 1928, when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode...