Word: munches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here there is no longer talk of Nature, only eccentric fanaticism, delirium-drunk moods and fever-sick hallucinations." So said the conservative Norwegian Aftenposten, outraged at the show of some 50 oils by young Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) in the summer of 1892 in Christiania (now Oslo). The storm of criticism was all that Munch, then 28 and just back from Paris, needed to become a scandalous success in the gloomy provincial city. Berlin painters promptly invited him to show in the German capital, and the scandal was even greater, splitting the Union of Berlin Artists permanently into two camps...
Woody directs the HGC-RCS and Munch directs the BSO in a superlative performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 8:30 this evening. At not quite the other end of the musical spectrum Dizzy Gillespie draws crowds at Storyville...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). With Charles Munch. Soloist: Isaac Stern...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). Charles Munch conducting...
...music" in "bad imitations of Igor Stravinsky." Their worst sin is writing purely "from their brains" instead of their souls. Last week Rochester-born Composer Diamond sat in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall while the result of his most recent soul-searching, his Sixth Symphony, was performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It seemed at times as if Diamond was unhappily living up to his own thesis...