Word: pastorale
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There wasn't a mode he couldn't handle, from the sacred to the sentimental, from the epic to the pastoral, from the mythic to the slyly humorous. As with Bernini or Titian, one stands in awe of his sheer fecundity. And he could be very witty--in a discreet...
It must have been disorienting for Ewan McGregor when the actor went from the junkie rigors of Trainspotting directly into the pastoral comedy of Jane Austen's Emma. "On the first day of shooting," he recalls, "I was riding horses and wearing a top hat, tails and gloves. And I...
Harvard Yard does not possess the same significance for all of us, however. Renovations to Yard dormitories our first year forced 160 of us to be exiled to 29 Garden St., a 10-minute hike away from the Yard in the direction of the Radcliffe Quad. (You could say that...
Some parts of the ballet are simple and lyrical, such as a pastoral-sounding flute solo; others, like the bassoon's aggressive blats, are humorous. The most characteristic and memorable passages, however, are those involving several different rhythms and themes played simultaneously in different parts of the orchestra. That HRO...
Bellows died in 1925, at only 43, and all his best paintings were finished by 1913, the year of the Armory Show. They were the works of a fast-eyed, brilliantly responsive artist whose style looked modern, and in some respects was modern, without offending American conservatives. Bellows' reputation as...