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...exception to this gross generalization is Israeli folk music. Searching for live folk music in Israel is difficult. As one Israeli explained to me, "All the good singers go to America to make records and money." Folk music is the national idiom; we are fortunate in being the beneficiaries of the high quality of the export product. Hillel and Aviva play the drum and flute (recorder) in a concert on Elektra records which is a very fine introduction to the genre of composed folk songs. (The Dudaim (whose name comes from doo- dah which is added a Hebrew suffix indicating...
...contents even harder. When the 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture opened at the Carnegie Institute last week, it put on display 329 paintings and 116 sculptures by 441 artists from 29 countries. Most of the work was abstract, with each abstractionist striving for some idiom of his own. This striving, which in a one-man show often makes each work seem like every other, has the opposite effect in a group show like the Carnegie's. There the effect is not of monotony but of sense-assaulting variety...
...imitation, as Lowell sees it, is not a translation, which is frequently true to the letter but false to the tone of the original ("and in poetry tone is everything"). An imitation is rather a transubstantiation, an attempt to re-create in another idiom the essential effect of the original poem...
...Introit, Greenberg unfolded all his resources. Directing in a smooth, flowing manner, he did meticulous justice to Isaac's complexity. The choirboys never failed to add a lustrous openness to the awesome fourths that characterize this musical idiom...
...modern," said he, "and modern-minded people will think it's too conservative." He got no argument. "I don't like any opera in English," huffed one white-tie traditionalist, and most critics were upset that Dello Joio had used a 19th century idiom. Still, the opera had its redeeming features. If the music lacked the strength of a Verdi opera, it was consistently melodious, at times truly lyrical. If the plot was melodramatic, it gave hints of Dello Joio's gift for sustained drama, an essential gift for a writer of grand opera and a recompense...