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Until the musicales started, the restaurant was losing some $4,000 a month. Now the place is prospering. La Pine-O'Neill have found that they can pack their restaurant not only by playing the music of the masters but also with modernist works of such composers as Irving Fine and Gunther Schuller. Next: Menotti's 30-minute opera The Telephone. The musicians find the whole thing relaxing, and countless bourbon drinkers have told O'Neill that they have never heard Beethoven in quite so clear a tone...
Soon Cage and Tudor were darting about between three record players, shifting from Mozart to blues to a recorded speech by Pope John XXIII calling for world peace. By the finale, fights had broken out all over the theater. "Get out of here!" screamed the traditionalists. Replied an unCaged modernist: "Go somewhere else if you want melody! Long live music!" Cage barked at the audience; the audience barked back at Cage. One notable dissenter: Igor Stravinsky, who found the whole business so tedious that he slipped out in mid-concert. Asked if the tumult was equal to what went...
...year," Essien U. Eissien-Udom, teaching fellow in Government, views the emergence of his native continent with a pan-african visionary's zeal tinged by a natural skepticism for politicians and a deeply felt attachment to traditional, but passing, customs. He is, as he says, "a traditionalist and a modernist...
...gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness was its length: as much dance drama as ballet (a British habit), it was studded with arid passages of exaggeratedly old-fashioned pantomime. Moreover, the fragmentary score by German Modernist Hans Werner Henze-sometimes lushly impressionistic, sometimes brassily strident-added little to the wispy plot. As Romeo and Juliet does with Ulanova, Ondine moves only with Fonteyn...
...museum to his tastes, Ultra-modernist Sweeney had used flat white paint and light to cancel out a good many Wright concepts. Canvases were mounted unframed on rods projecting from the dazzling white wall. Bright, fluorescent lights were installed in the side skylights, canceling out Wright's sunlight but creating a brilliant background wall of light. As a result, the paintings seem to hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country. But my job is to show...