Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. An infinitely involved and dazzling fantasy cum parable about goatish (or maybe human) goings-on at an institution of lower learning that represents the modern...
JOSEPH SZIGETI (Mercury). The 74-year-old violinist plays mostly sonatas by four modern masters: Debussy, Ives, Honegger and Webern. The Debussy Sonata in C Minor is competent interpretation, but Szigeti really excels in tenser linear works -the eclectic Ives in his only violin sonata and the neo-Baroque Honegger (Sonata No. 7), with its complex, difficult ornamentation, sound fresh and clear. The record's highlight is four pieces (Opus 7) by Anton Webern, none longer than 72 seconds, in which the stripped-down starkness of modern music and its intolerance of repetition or romance are emphasized by Szigeti...
...FOUR CENTURIES (Angel). An anointed disciple of Andres Segovia ("Most meritorious a young Master"), the 28-year-old Italian guitarist goes from Frescobaldi and Dowland up to Villa-Lobos with brief musical sketches that contrast as widely in mood as in century. His forte seems to be the modern works by the Mexican Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, in which he gives an almost exolosive account...
...tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such a government. Identification with any political regime would be harmful to the church." Meantime, several priests have circulated a petition asking Antonio Cardinal Caggiano to be less chummy with Onganía. Whatever the reason, last week Cardinal Caggiano...
...danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern movement of interpretive dancing...