Word: modernist
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...generation ago, a church goer who admitted to doubts about the Virgin Birth, say, would be clearly stamped among his fellows as a disciple of some such flaming modernist as Harry Elmer Barnes at best, or of Agnostic Robert Ingersoll at worst. In the fidelistic mood of the postwar religious revival, questioning was largely out of place - not because people had no doubts, but be cause they were willing to take the church and its teachings as a whole...
HERBIE HANCOCK, MAIDEN VOYAGE (Blue Note). Hancock is-an inventive young (26) modernist best known for his work with Miles Davis. Here he sets out to fathom the mysteries of the sea. His crew of Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams, drums, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, and George Coleman, tenor sax, pull together perfectly to express a variety of moods-from the quiet swirling sound of Little One to the growling agitation of Eye of the Hurricane. Survival of the Fittest features a Hancock solo that pits one hand against the other in a sort of riptide effect...
France, mired in a state of musical bankruptcy ever since World War II, could always boast one major asset: Pierre Boulez, 41, the leading voice of the modernist school of composers and a gifted conductor as well. But in 1959, Boulez suddenly deserted Paris to live in Baden-Baden and work with the progressive Southwest German Radio Orchestra. He left, he said, because "the organization of musical life in Paris is more stupid than anywhere else. France has completely lost her importance. Nothing advances...
...success today is Sir John Barbirolli, 66, whose solid musicianship, gained during a long career as conductor of such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and Britain's Hallé Orchestra, compensates mightily for the lack of depth in his players. Mindful that attendance had skidded with the modernist programming of Leopold Stokowski (1955-61), Barbirolli plays it safe and sticks close to the classics, out of which he produces a sound as fresh and breezy as the Southwest itself...
...oversized crown and half mask. An in stinctively gifted actor, he also displayed a lyrical, handsomely rounded voice, which prompted one Manhattan critic to declare: "Here, at last, is a tenor who might some day aspire to the supreme place still occupied by Richard Tucker." Though Henze's modernist fantasy was received with some eyebrow-raising by the Santa Fe audience, Shirley drew a rousingly enthusiastic ovation...