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When Edgard Varčse (rhymes with fez) was a boy in Paris, the piano in his family's apartment was kept locked. His father, an engineer, did not want him to become a composer. Though Varčse went on to study music at some of the world's best schools and eventually made a name for himelf as a fierce and formidable modernist composer, there are those who believe that his father's wish was fulfilled...
Contemporary musical composition, like other modern art forms, has shown two contradictory trends: it has sought to 1) come closer to reality than it ever has before; and 2) destroy reality or transmute it beyond recognition. In this sense, Composer Varčse is a typical 20th century artist. He goes about with a tape recorder, picking up very real sounds that may range from a factory whistle to an organ note to a kissing sound captured right at home. Then, by using electronic machinery that might have baffled his father, he takes the "raw" sounds, breaks them up into components...
Tunc, como doctor, ille se faceva coolie pro cinquanta annos...
...divided between the races, there have been 499 gonorrhea cases reported among Negroes to five among whites, 85 Negro case of syphilis and one white. The TB rate is equally high. One cannot blame the Negro for this situation, but on the other hand, neither can one fail to se why white parents are apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes on any large or immediate basis...
Compositionally, the Disasters concentrate on action to the extent of losing visual balance. Goya exaggerates gesture to heighten emotion or point a message. In "No se Puede Mirar" for example, Goya shows who the ends of rifles can outbalance human beings...