Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounded but how it was "organized"-audiences searching for emotional satisfaction turned away, seeking solace in earlier periods. The counterrevolution against the Schoenberg-Webern-Boulez triumvirate is now well advanced, however, with a variety of conservatives, neoconservatives (including apostates from serialism such as George Rochberg) and so-called minimalists all striving to make new music vital again. Glass generally is lumped with Composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley in the minimalist camp because of his simple melodies and his dependence on repetition instead of traditional motivic development. An admirer of punk and New Wave music, Glass is unabashed about...
...spent $1,250 for an Inaugural morning suit (the whole elaborately striped works). As soon as he and Nancy got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they began investing the place with a swank and shine it has not had since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They...
...catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation of detail forces us to reflect on process-how they were made, why they need to carry so much information. They are conceptual art, of a kind: Idea before Painting. What other realist painter comes near this minimalist harshness? Close's images pay absolute homage to the power of an overriding system; they might have been done on autopilot...
...transforming his standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there was one, of the "sense of touch" in traditional painting. But always he seems to be after a kind of minimalist nirvana where, as he puts it, "every square inch was physically the same, where there was no area of more beautiful brushing or virtuoso art marks...
...Carter, 72, Charles Wuorinen, 42, Donald Martino, 49-based in the Northeast. "It was the natural thing for us to do," insists Clarinetist Virgil Blackwell. "We live in the East, we come into contact with these composers." Speculum has begun exploring other styles-it has commissioned a work from Minimalist Steve Reich for next season-but still avoids music that requires extensive improvisation. It generally steers clear of "theater" pieces, which call on the musicians to act as well as play...