Word: klees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans last week: "Guardini is like a Renaissance humanist-he seems to have the key to everything. If he speaks about atomic science, one feels he knows all there is to know about modern physics. He can plumb the depths of Freud or analyze the mysticism of Paul Klee's paintings; he can throw new light on the obscure poetry of Hölderlin and Rilke, or expound the strengths and weaknesses of Communist dialectic. Guardini seems to control the bridges that lead from art, from literature, from philosophy -to religion...
...German city of Dessau, a pupil of Painter Paul Klee saw him marching down the center of the sidewalk, absentmindedly keeping time to the music of a passing band. What he was pondering, explained Klee, was the rhythmic relationship between the music and the slabs of concrete passing beneath his feet. To illustrate, he drew a sketch: a stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between...
Composers, in turn, have heard the musical echoes in Klee's wiry, convoluted paintings, studded with runic signs and symbols. Last week Manhattan audiences lad an unusual introduction to the world of Paul Klee as it appears to two contemporary U.S. composers...
...Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee had its premiere with the visiting Minneapolis Symphony under Conductor Antal Dorati. Each of Schuller's studies took its name from a Klee painting, tried to preserve the rhythms of the work and in some cases the colors. Antique Harmonies, for instance, is a canvas of overlapping blocks, ranging from near black through amber, ochre and brown to brighter colors; to Schuller, it suggested a hushed, dense background of woodwinds, interrupted by "the brighter yellow of the trumpets and high strings." Klee's famed Twittering Machine, which...
...David Diamond's The World of Paul Klee, which had its premiere in 1958, was played by the New York Philharmonic under Assistant Conductor Seymour Lipkin. Each of Diamond's four musical pictures was introduced by a "frame," which served the same mood-setting function that Mussorgsky's "promenades" do in Pictures from an Exhibition. Like Schuller, Composer Diamond used Twittering Machine as the inspiration for one of his pieces, but he saw it in more somber tones: muted, dark-hued movements of the strings, with the picture's more jagged lines delineated by scampering woodwinds...