Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nestled in the Surrey woodlands 43 miles south of London, this annual event is directed by Recorder Virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch. The festival is famous for its authentic performances of early music on ancient instruments. The pièce de résistance this year is the first modern performance of a Magnificat for four voices by 16th century Belgian Composer Baudoin Hoyoul...
...prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel at the frescoes of Titian and Tintoretto, the sculpture of Rizzo and Verocchio, and the majestic bell towers and loggia of Buon and Sansovino...
...loved have over those who love them, with the illusive freedoms men surrender in a futile attempts to capture other freedoms they can never possess. But in tone, it is quite the opposite from the explicitness and boldness that often act as blinders on the visions of modern theatre. This play's tone is much more akin to Bergman's delicate Smiles of a Summer Night. On Turgenev's pages, the dots of suspension, and on the stage, is characters' embarrassed pauses should alone be to tell a story quite eloquent. It is a comedy, but a very special kind...
...social reality for subject-matter and its tendency to documentary as method had a tremendous influence in France, giving rise to a large school of French documentarists (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker) and a larger consciousness of film as more that a purely fictional narrative medium. Andre Bazin, father of modern film criticism, stressed the integrity of the photographed event, the virtue of films which preserve a measure of reality's implicit ambiguity instead of analyzing reality for perfect clarity. Indeed, he transmitted these semi-documentary values form the Neo-Realists to modern European film-makers...
...quicker opponents until he is well past 30, and still come out a champion. Tilden, Budge, and Gonzales all dominated professional tennis, but few have brought to the game such well-balanced excellence and natural panache as Australian Rod Laver, and none have ever reaped the financial rewards that modern pro tennis has, and will, give him, for being the best player in the world...