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...first opera two years ago and Yo-Yo Ma ’76 recently premiered his cello concerto with the Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed as three separate pieces before Carter combined them into one work...
Glimcher drove up the astronomical sum on scruples alone––he could not bear to see what he saw as an archetypally American painting go to Germany, as it would have, had not he rallied four patrons to contribute a quarter each of the price to keep it in the States...
...unending drive when it comes to fulfilling an artist’s vision. When working with the artist Lucas Samaras, for example, he not only put up the sum of $14,000 so that Samaras could create a mirrored room, but also went around personally redecorating his gallery with nails and hammer in hand until he had created the desired effect...
Glimcher propelled up the astronomical sum on scruples alone––he could not bear to see what he saw as an archetypally American painting go to Germany, as it would have, had not he rallied four patrons to contribute a quarter each of the price to keep it in the States...
...life. As his wife said, “Arne’s a genius at installation.” He has unending drive when it comes to fulfilling an artist’s vision. When working with the artist Lucas Samaras, for example, he not only put up the sum of $14,000 so that Samaras could create a mirrored room, but he went around personally redecorating his gallery with nails and hammer in hand until he had created the desired effect...