Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PETER J. SOLOMON...
...between the two halves of the dance section. The final work was an electrifying setting of Virgil Thomson's "Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides" choreographed by Amy Greenfield, who also danced the title role with just the right mixture of passion and inhuman wildness. As Jason, Gus Solomon combined a rigid discipline with a strongly rhythmical movement, producing an effective and intense characterization. The other dancers and the chorus were caught up by the highly charged emotion and supported the principals well. The choreography had about it a sureness and feeling for line that emphaized the fact that...
Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...
...York City's most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...
...challenging painters and sculptors to match his genius, Wright created a very real and exciting tension, if a formidable one. Harry F. Guggenheim, Chairman of the Board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, commented on the occasion saying, "Let each man exercise the art he knws." Frank Lloyd Wright exercised his; he left a challenge for the artists to match...