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...Houghton Library—with comments to the audience regarding the genre of the music in the program. In his initial address, Lipkind said, “The goal is to look for moments that are from different points of view that are stuck between the Romantic and the Modern solutions. They don’t completely...
...Martinu to the delicate, cradling treatment of the piano notes of César Frank’s “Sonata in A Major (1886).” The “stuck” moments of the music definitely enhanced the emotional depth of Romanticism with modern additions that ushered us into this musical “transition” genre...
...Yings attacked “Anniversary Dances” with the same simultaneous intensity and delicacy as they did the Mozart piece, but their style was much more modern. The suite made use of a wider range of sounds, including a strong pizzicato, and at times, the instruments seemed totally independent of each other. The sometimes discordant phrases of the music were a stark contrast to the harmony of the first suite, and prevented the concert from becoming a two-hour performance of predictability...
...course, a slogan is just a slogan, but it does represent something about certain aspects of modern feminism that doesn’t quite sit well. After all, in portraying a feminist party as opposed to “the Man,” the slogan, like many strands of feminism, seemed to promote a sense women’s “otherness”—a feel-good approach to feminism that ultimately hurts women more than it helps...
...relieves a woman of the otherwise inevitable weight of making wrong decisions, of not fixing things, of not always being sure of who she is or what she believes in. While that was understandable a hundred years ago (and still is in many less developed parts of the world), modern women have little excuse. We voice awareness of male-female equality, but nonetheless act in ways that perpetuate the conception of a man as “the norm” and a woman as an aberration...