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...ghost of an almost forgotten art movement came to life in Manhattan last week. At the urging of a 57th Street gallery owner, 65-year-old Artist Marcel Duchamp* had set up the first major exhibit of Dada ever held in the U.S. The result was a collection of 300 of the most sardonic jokes ever perpetrated...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
Manhattan gallery-goers flocked to the show, and Marcel Duchamp thought they took it quite well. "Dada is not passe," he insisted. "The Dada spirit is eternal. Our art will always exist as a concrete expression of freedom." And he could feel that the visitors "understood immediately." Understanding or not, most people had trouble deciding if it was safe to pick up Duchamp's catalogue for the show. Duchamp had them printed on huge ( 2 ft. by 3 ft.) sheets of tissue, crumpled them into balls and packed them in a wastebasket. People with long memories half expected that...
Flemish Choral Music (Ghent Oratorio Society conducted by Marcel de Pauw; Esoteric). Thirteen delicately tinted songs for chorus, and two guitar interludes, all glowing with Old World warmth The 104-voice chorus sings with charm and intimacy...
...home. Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel Dupré's Stations of the Cross and the Bruckner Te Deum. Says he: "The assumption that the American people do not know and do not like good music is strictly for the birds...