Word: modernist
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...confused guests sat down on the armchair that was part of Jim Dine's painting called Four Rooms, and piled their champagne glasses into the porcelain sink (painted black) that is part of his lesser work, Black Bathroom No. 2. Two days later came a "lecture" by Modernist Composer John Cage, who accompanied his own voice with three tape recordings of his own voice, thus saying four different meaningless things at once. But that only led up to the climactic event, a happening called "Stars...
...since fabricated 30 instruments capable of hooting sepulchrally, barking savagely, trumpeting like a herd of elephants, and even producing echoing sounds of haunting beauty. Baschet dubbed his inventions Structures sonores and organized a small orchestra: his brother Bernard, Modernist Composer Jacques Lasry and several associates. The group is known in France as Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet. It plays some Bach and some Vivaldi−but Baschet's devices are more adaptable to the works of Composer Lasry, which struggle with such titles as Coil Spring Dance and Duet for Crystals...
...that lingered at concert's end to try to find out exactly what they had heard. (Said Lenny to the 400: "I compliment you.") Since then, many a conductor has deemed Time Cycle worthy of one, if not two, hearings, and it has become a frequently performed modernist work. Last week at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont., it was played with Foss himself conducting from the piano. Festival Co-Director Glenn Gould praised it as "the most important work in the last ten years...
...modernist. Composer Ward, 44, turned out an orchestral score that holds few surprises; occasionally it is clamorously obvious, but at its best it admirably illuminates the singers' moods. The main strength of the score is in the vocal parts -vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
Died. Max Weber, 80, Russian-born dean of U.S. modern art, who studied in the avant-garde art world of Paris at the turn of the century, was influenced by Cezanne and Matisse, returned to become the first U.S. modernist, working in every form from painting to sculpture; after a long illness; in Great Neck, N.Y. Weber believed that "science proves to the mind; art reveals the heart," in 1929 had the first one-man show in New York's Museum of Modern...