Word: liquidation
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...notion of a country-rock and torch-ballad singer fronting an electronic avant-garde ensemble may seem fairly far out, but it appeared to be a normal idea to Composer Philip Glass. Last week the minimalist music master completed a five-show, three-city tour showcasing Songs from Liquid Days, a song cycle performed by the likes of Linda Ronstadt and The Roches to lyrics by Paul Simon, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson. Anyone hoping for a Top Ten single from the extravaganza is likely to be disappointed. The songs are more symphonic than pop, Glass explains. "There's really...
...purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue, fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness, done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface. Louis' direct inspiration for this was an early canvas by Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, whose liquid blotches and airy sense of light struck him, in one of the few quotable phrases he left behind, as a "bridge between Pollock and what was possible...
Instead, Louis sought a language of impersonal nuances. He found it in a complicated process of pleating the canvas and flooding it with runnels of diluted color, wash after wash, never a brush mark in sight. He "drew" his shapes by manipulating the effects of gravity on liquid. This certainly eliminated the traces of the expressive hand and gave his surfaces a sweet, frictionless clarity. It was also chancy in the extreme, since it courted the possibility of turning the image into a decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense...
...word comes from the Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...
...live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson, Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega, with performances by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos String Quartet...