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Selections from George Rochberg's "American Bouquet" offered a completely different view of the guitar's capabilities. His adaptations of "My Heart Stood Still" and "I Only Have Eyes for You" lent an improvisatory, introspective tone to the guitar; it was much like viewing the old melodies through a kaleidoscope. Fisk would have done well to lose himself a little more in the ideas of these pieces, rather than focusing significantly on embellishment. He executed the last selection, a genuine if overly scripted "Notre Dame Blues," With appropriate gusto, smiling visibly for the first time while playing. Perhaps...
...liked my core classes," says Bresman, "But it has lent itself to my indecision...
More than anything, though, Israelis responded out of a sense that they had simply had enough. As Eli Landau, the mayor of Herzliya who had lent support to Israel's rapprochement with the Palestinians, said, ``If the peace process is paved on the bodies of dead Jews, then I take it back...
...what a big submerged effect Kline must have had on some of the better artists now alive: Richard Serra, for instance, whose dark walls of steel and thickly scrubbed-on black-crayon drawings evoke the same urban-industrial landscape that inspired Kline, or Brice Marden, or Cy Twombly, who lent this show a bunch of Kline's quickly brushed, frail sketches done on now crumbling pages of Manhattan telephone directories. These studies, not incidentally, dispose of the myth that Kline was a wholly spontaneous painter who staked everything on the one-shot gesture. He would make them, mull over them...
...expression that great prizes often come in small packages befits the exhibit of paintings from the Joseph B. Hazel Collection at the Fogg Museum of Art. The exhibit shows nearly a dozen gems all contained within one room, sandwiched between galleries of French Romanticism and American Realism. Hazel lent 16 works to the Fogg, but because of a lack of space and the paintings' sensitivity to light, not all of them are displayed. However, these few works can be viewed by appointment...