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...preceding was excerpted from Shoah (Pantheon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Encounter With the Past | 11/20/1985 | See Source »

...temple of the "interesting," the crammed pantheon of the briefly new, is the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the 1985 version of which closed on Sunday. The importance of the biennial lies in the absence of other exhibitions that do the same job. It is a salon, though a very biased one (it scants realist painting, for instance, in favor of more nominally "advanced" styles), and as such it is the one regular national survey of American art held by a major U.S. museum. It pretends to be plain reportage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...marble turn out to be made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rebirth in Dresden | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Nonesuch). Except for the Hary Janos Suite and perhaps the choral Psalmus Hungaricus, Zoltan Kodaly's music is not much heard today, only 16 years after his death. It is his contemporary, friend and colleague, Bela Bartok, who seems to have won the Hungarian seat in the 20th century pantheon of great composers. But Kodaly's music, while less frankly adventurous than Bartok's, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well. The fiery Duo (1914), full of rich and varied strong sonorities, gets a passionate reading from Phillips, who has a flourishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Punks, Trouts and Finns | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...faith times Frankie equals some kind of bang." And, it might be added, a considerable amount of bucks. None of the heart-stopping chart figures chronicling Frankie's astounding home land success are provided, perhaps because the stats are so widely known and already en route into the pantheon of pop trivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Frankie Say We Go Big Bang | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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