Word: static
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concertos performed on Wednesday and Thursday evenings suffered the most. The First Concerto, on Wednesday, was static. The orchestra followed Rudolf in his highly correct and well paced interpretation, while Serkin played his own version, accenting different notes than the orchestra, making the humorous passages of the last movement so fast and racy that it sounded like Milhaud. The Fifth Concerto was almost unbearable. The Emperor has grown so familiar to the BSO that the orchestra dismisses it lightly. Only a few forte passages of the first movement and the opening of the second had any sort of inspiration...
There was little superfluous static at the town meeting. Moderator Robert Johnson managed the session with quiet efficiency. For one thing, the townspeople have a deep respect for parliamentary procedure and law. For another, the bootlegger who used to supply enlivening white lightning has been dead for several years. Nowadays the nearest liquor store is twelve miles away...
...change he then opposes a personality determined to preserve or achieve an ideal, static set of relationships. The romantic determination of his protagonists, to fashion the world according to their subjective demands, becomes destructive as it opposes itself to an evolution that time necessitates. Children like Why reveal this existential truth in a particularly extreme form...
...virtually no formal training, progressing from realism through Surrealism to his own version of abstractionism. Line, subject, perspective-all were gone. "You have nothing here but content," he once said, in describing his style of running colors together to produce the impression of shimmering motion from an almost totally static form. Recognition was long in coming, but it arrived with a rush in the late '50s; in 1961 Rothko was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Last year he was stricken by a heart attack, which, said friends, left him ever more despondent...
Unfortunately, the monumental weariness which Genet so effectively conveys has no compelling cathartic quality: The Blacks, like The Balcony and The Screens. is structured around a series of totally static ritual ceremonies. which tread lightly on the borderline between the crudest naturalism and the most cerebral symbolism. Harold Scott, director of The Blacks and recipient of the Obie Award for an off-Broadway performance in Genet's Deathwatch, has resolved the latent tensions in Genct's material in the direction of naturalism-obviating some of the ludicrous pitfalls which plagued Joseph Strick in his attempt to film The Balcony...