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...course all upright men are opposed to these sinister agents of the enemy, but we are also opposed to the traditionalist, who insists the schools exist solely for the gifted minority who will go on to college. These are the classroom martinets who think of their students as buckets into which they must pour a predetermined number of facts...
...never found the proper syntax for them." Just about the only older composers for whom Boulez has a kind word: Schoenberg's late pupil Anton Webern, and France's 49-year-old Organist-Composer Olivier Messiaen, from whom Boulez sought composition instruction after giving Paris' traditionalist Conservatoire the back of his hand ("The composition professors were imbeciles"). From Webern, Boulez derived and refined Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique to its uttermost austerity, and from Messiaen he absorbed an interest in Oriental cultures. Today Old Master Igor Stravinsky, 76, admits that Boulez has influenced even him, regards...
...intense, Wieland differs from his tempestuous grandfather in temperament, but not in artistic outlook. Both stagecraft innovators in their day, Richard liked his opera gorgeously colored and realistically detailed; Wieland likes to keep his decor schematic and sparse, consisting more of lines and lights than of wood and canvas. Traditionalist critics sometimes say that he keeps things simple out of a lack of imagination, or to save money. But his latest production looked as if it might convert the last holdouts among the traditionalists; almost certainly the Old Man would have been one of the converts...
...Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated." Novelist Hugh Walpole was once kicked out of Noyes's house for suggesting to one of Noyes's daughters that she read James Joyce's Ulysses. "Filth," said Noyes...
Undisturbed by the traditionalist reaction against Spartacus, the Bolshoi is planning to encourage the shorter ballet form that has been the vehicle for most new choreographic ideas in the West. Says Artistic Director Alexander Tomsky: "We are not after a ballet that merely delights the eye; we are for ballet of deep feeling. We want to trouble the audience...