Word: impressioniste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness, it never seemed cloudy. The concert ended with a performance of Brahms's First Symphony, so magnificently traditional that the composer might have applauded it as enthusiastically as the Carnegie audience did. On its U.S. tour, the Concertgebouw will be led only part of the time by Conductor...
...grey seascape in 1832, the painting was hung at the Royal Academy next to John Constable's Opening of Waterloo Bridge. When Turner went to the gallery to varnish his painting for exhibition, he found Constable busily brightening his Waterloo Bridge with vermilion and lake. Silent, the pre-impressionist master watched, comparing Constable's work with his own. Then Turner fetched his palette and gave his Helvoetsluys an extraordinary touch: a round daub of red lead on the cold, grey...
Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme. During the whole romantic and impressionist era, only a handful of composers bothered to write for the organ, and what they wrote was largely insignificant. But in recent decades, the pope of the musical world has begun a major comeback. Modern U.S. composers * Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, Leo Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found...
...from the outside world and is left to think, and to give final shape to his budget in deepest secrecy. Every day, like a queen ant fussed over by faithful workers, Rab was closeted in his Treasury office. Evenings he worked until past midnight in his study, hung with Impressionist paintings from his father-in-law's collection...
...dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward short flights of bogus impressionist prose, she also has the easy writing ability to tell a warm, readable story...