Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey-born Violinist Max Polikoff has a theory about modern composers: "Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music." To enhance the composer while he is still alive is Violinist Polikoffs avocation. Last week, in Manhattan's 92nd Street Y.M.H.A., Polikoff gave the sixth concert in his annual "Music in Our Time" series, one of the nation's most remarkable sounding boards for contemporary compositions...
...recording studios, started the series in 1956, now gives eight concerts a year at $8 for the full subscription. With occasional foundation windfalls he just about breaks even-not counting the endless, unpaid hours spent screening new scores and rehearsing. Nowadays he finds that it is easier to sell modern music to lay audiences than to musicians: "Most musicians stop with Debussy; that's the last 'new' music they learned to play...
...players could stand the road pace gaily set by Cornell, 61, and Aherne, 56, and few would seem to have less incentive. Aherne has a profitable California grape farm, and hates the road-like nearly every modern U.S. actor (TIME...
Weeds sprang up; the mosaic tiles began to crack and fall; paintings were stored. In time, art lovers persuaded the government to maintain the church as a national monument and "a milestone in modern religious architecture." Still the Catholic Church refused consecration...
...leaders: Architects Marcel Breuer, Wallace K. Harrison, Philip C. Johnson, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest, are moving on to new and more exciting adventures in structure...