Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that the age of technology, futuristic abstraction and novel problems in thought and culture demands music suited to and born of this very modernism...
...will participate in the performance of their own works. The concert takes place at First and Second Church, Boston, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6.5 and 4 and information is available at 785-0133 or 275-8813. The festival continues next week with an even more diverse program of modern works...
...course, on a more basic level, people seem to agree on what education means. One must know how to read, one must understand the rudiments of the rationalistic-scientific consciousness that pervades modern societies, one must learn the basic responsibilities of citizenship in order to be able to function as a member of society...
Musicals, of course, are not generally noted for their deep messages or weighty topics. Ever since Rodgers and Hammerstein hit upon the modern musical format with Oklahoma! in 1943, various artists have made rare, usually unsuccessful, attempts to transcend its fluffy nature. Company, however, is an exception, and even though it opts for a conventional pro-marriage outlook, it is refreshing to see a musical dealing with an adult theme...
...fairly simple plot--had Lipsky not chosen to interrupt the flow of the narrative with digressions and, in one case, an audience sing-along in the especially feeble Act I. At times Lipsky contrasts very well for comic effect the modern simplicity of Saul's words with the more formal diction of the other characters. For example, in the middle of a long tirade by Samuel, Saul interjects, "You know, you're a very gloomy person." But after a while, the wide-eyed stuff gets a bit grating...