Word: idiom
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...sculptor who carves no stone. He molds abstract shapes of wood and plaster, paints them with wavering, rainbow strokes of cool color, ornaments them with bold patterns, simplified human figures and shadow-casting bumps and cutouts. Result: a new kind of fluid wall decoration which revives, in a modern idiom, the painted-sculpture art of the ancient Egyptians, Syrians and Greeks...
...whole "dance-play," has hopes of getting such a play produced on Broadway next year. With "actors trained by me," she would try to accomplish a threefold ambition: "To speak as an individual, to portray the spirit of Africa, and to do it through the African dance idiom...
...year old conductor still has a lot to learn. His interpretations of Haydn and Mozart were much too heavy-handed; and his readings of the Romantic composers were frequently muddy because of his inability to sustain the melodic line. However, Stanger exhibited a firm grasp of the modern idiom, and his performances of three recent compositions were the highlights of the season...
...opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi Legend...
...audiences got was a Mississippi Legend that mostly just kept rollin' along, smoothly and inevitably, but with few flash floods of emotion. Well sung by a Village Opera Company cast and chorus (no orchestra), Legend had its chief charm in its authentic blues. It was in the American idiom all right, but the score was all warp and no woof. Wolfe strung his ballads along one after the other, unadorned and undeveloped, with few bars to bind them together...