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...trials for track, attracts runners from all over the world and turns them into world class racers. They come for the moderate climate, and for the beautiful scenery. And they come because Eugene is where the other runners are. The late Steve Prefontaine, who ran 10,000 meters at Munich, was one. Alberto Salazar, who won Monday's Boston Marathon is another...
DIED. Carl Orff, 86, German composer who turned his back on complex modern styles to fashion a highly personal idiom of folklike melodies and elemental rhythms; in Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
...Giorgio de Chirico is one of the most curious in art history. An Italian, born in 1888 and raised partly in Greece-where his father, an engineer, planned and built railroads-he led a long, productive life, almost Picassian in length; he died in 1978. He had studied in Munich, and in his early 20s, under the spell of a symbolist painter named Arnold Böcklin, he began to produce a series of strange, oneiric cityscapes. When they were seen in Paris after 1911, they were ecstatically hailed by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Eluard; before long...
...painter: thus a pioneering near-abstract work like Small Pleasures, 1913, is actually about the apocalyptic disappearance of the material world, the vanishing of the "mere" delights of body and landscape. As this show repeatedly makes clear, the fantasy of evolution from matter into spirit was shared by other Munich artists before 1914, most strikingly by Hermann Obrist, whose unbuilt project for a monument -figures ascending a spiral, hauled up on top by a winged angel - predicted the great unbuilt monument of the 20th century, Tallin's iron tower for the Third International in Russia...
...right after all - as preludes to the end of history itself, the millennium. What distinguished him from other mystagogic nuts, however, was his talent as an artist. On the evidence of this show, he was far and away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together in the mysterious speckling...