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Guided by his lifelong friend, Artist William Glackens. Barnes began to buy up French impressionist paintings by the boatload. Although many of his early purchases were mistakes, he showed taste and a fine instinct for good investment. He was one of the discoverers of Modigliani. In one moment of sound judgment he bought 60 Soutines for $50 apiece-long before Soutine was well known. In his acquisitions, Barnes was uninhibited by ethical considerations. When his friend Leo Stein, brother of Gertrude, offered to sell his valuable collection of impressionist paintings through Barnes, the collector repaid Stein's early kindnesses...
...time of his death, shortly after the Boston Symphony gave the premiere of his Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, he was already regarded as a daring and promising talent. A teacher all his life (at New York's Hackley School for boys'), he began composing under French impressionist influence, became fascinated by Javanese music, and incorporated the Oriental influence in such five-and six-notescale works as In a Myrtle Shade and Wai Kiki. His talent, as shown in recordings of Notturno for Orchestra and Three Tone Pictures for Double Quintet and Piano, was for richly colored works...
...replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol. But in contrast to the cool, desiccated manner of European twelve-tone composers of the Schoenberg-Webern school, Riegger turned out propulsive, ruggedly rhythmic compositions full of jangling dissonances and roughhewn contrasts. The effect was sometimes as startling as an impressionist-styled canvas executed with a house painter's brush...
...admission, Manhattan's opinion-making Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred Barr once thought Impressionist Claude Monet was "just a bad example." But five years ago, he looked again, changed his mind, and pronounced him grandfather of abstract impressionism (a phrase for the softer side of abstract expressionism). To honor grandfather, the Modern last week opened a stunning, 119-landscape show that began with postcard-like seascapes in the manner of Boudin and ended with the wide, conflated color vistas Monet drew from the depths of his private water garden 50 miles from Paris in the last years before...
...Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Luise Vosgerchian as piano soloist. This luminous work, which uses the piano more as a part of the orchestra than does a formal concerto, combines evocations of Spain and its festive music with the muted orchestral transparencies of French Impressionist compositions. The orchestra and its marvellously accomplished soloist gave the work a stunning reading. The rapport between them was evident from the first and, throughout both Mr. Senturia and Miss Vosgerchian brought out DeFallas alteration between Latin passion and delicate poetry with judicious phrasing and well-varied tone coloring...