Word: munched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Refined Art. Beyond all that, a conductor has to be alert to troubles within his orchestra. Men who have gone too far in an effort to make music a democracy (as Charles Munch did in Boston and Dimitri Mitropoulos did before he was shooed away from New York in 1958) may find themselves watching helplessly as their musicians betray them in a thousand ways. The New York Philharmonic has made a refined art of ignoring any inept visitors among the conductors who substitute for Leonard Bernstein each year: the players keep all eyes studiously away from the podium in hopes...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra was the supreme U.S. orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky from 1924 to 1949. Charles Munch, who led the orchestra from 1949 until last fall, allowed its standards to slip somewhat, sparing only the French repertory as Boston's private domain. Under Erich Leinsdorf, 51, one of the Metropolitan Opera's greatest conductors, the orchestra has already regained a degree of its lost precision of ensemble, and it retains its long reputation as the orchestra richest in virtuosos...
...vibrant rhythms of his brush linked him to the swirling style of art nouveau, but what in that art was precious and affected became in Munch a swirl of passion, often equal to that of Van Gogh. One of his first major paintings, inspired by the death of a sister, was called The Sick Child, and all his life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have...
Lust & Hate. Munch knew the feeling well: he spent time in a mental hospital, drank heavily for many years, was involved in a number of scandalous public brawls. He was devastated by one love affair, but when he tried to break it off, the woman countered by having herself laid out as if she were dying, so he would have to come to her for a last visit. Another time she threatened to shoot herself, and one of his fingers was shot off when he grappled for the gun. Munch's attitude toward women, like the playwright Strindberg...
...both his paintings and prints, his women are often shown as heartless temptresses, vampires, even assassins, the undoers of men. Munch did a number of works called Jealousy, in which the man is always the one betrayed. What is so nightmarish about these pictures is not the harlotry of the woman, but the helpless humiliation of the male...