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...that it was a time capsule for the elan of the '60s, hopeful and engaged, melodious and raucous. It was also the ragged champs of the art of improvisation. If rock musicians prove their wits by vamping, the Dead were Mensa masters. A single song, in its myriad tonal variations, could go on for the better part of an hour--or the worse part, if inspiration was lacking that night. Deadheads came for that inspiration, and found it in the roly-poly guitarist with a missing middle finger on his strumming hand. Garcia was the soul, the sound--by common...
...whom were all but obsessed by it; the Detroit millionaire Charles Freer owned 40 of his paintings and hundreds of his drawings. Moreover, he was a prophet--Americans imitated him, especially photographers. After 1900, Alfred Stieglitz and his circle labored to give their prints the evocative blur, the tonal harmony, the self-conscious aestheticism of Whistler's night and twilight pictures...
Fogg Art Museum.. Through July 1995. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art." From its perceived origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking...
Fogg Art Museum. Through July. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art." From its perceived origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking...
...enforced cultural isolation of his homeland, Kancheli forged a plangent, tonal music of protest. Naive, almost childlike melodies nestle with dissonant passages of the utmost ferocity; isolated sounds wink dimly in the darkness, gradually coalescing into coherent shapes. Suddenly the music explodes like shrapnel, and the listener is left to pick up the pieces. "In Kancheli's music there is an intense spirituality combined with the craftsmanship of a composer who really knows what instruments sound like," says Davies. "It's a combination you don't often find...