Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architect himself: "He just doesn't know who he is. He's a funny guy who never knows how much things cost. He's suffering from the nineteenth century Jeffersonian thing--a guy with a book of friezes he's drawn on the Grand Tour. That's got to change...
...those who think music stopped in 1880, there was Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C. For those who think it began in 1923, the orchestra played the Five Bagatelles for Orchestra by contemporary composer Gunther Schuller. Then, for those who haven't accepted the dogma that the nineteenth century doesn't exist, there was every not of Tschaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, the "Pathetique...
...solidly in control despite purported despoliation by this year's Bach Society Orchestra. Under conductor James Yannatos, the orchestra played with just the right kind of classical clarity and transparence. These qualities are more difficult to master than the rhythmic complexities of contemporary music or the pyrotechnics of late nineteenth-century orchestral style. All the elements which are so important in Beethoven--dynamic contrast, elegance of phrasing, orchestral balance--were consciously and sensitively achieved by orchestra and conductor. For the first time in three years, the HRO actually played subtly...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, which brings to Harvard each year an authority of high distinction and international reputation, commemorates Harvard's great nineteenth century teacher of art history. Last year the professorship was held by Meyer Shapiro, professor of Fine Arts at Columbia...
Bundy replied with what one student called a "nineteenth century British balance of power philosophy." He said the U.S. was helping to prevent a third world war by stopping the Communists in South Vietnam...