Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first tranquil notes of the oboes, on through all the simple, light-hearted melodies of the Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra, the music was ingratiating, undemanding-and, somehow, startling. The audience kept turning to its program notes for reassurance that this really was a composition by Bela Bartok...
...passed in front of it," to use a gallery phrase, in the 3½ weeks in Washington, assuring the museum of a record attendance in 1963, giving thousands little more than a reason to say, "I saw it." There was a general atmosphere of keep-moving which interfered with tranquil inspection, but then, all around were other pictures, many as deserving of close inspection, which got little attention from the crowds...
These criticisms, though, might be ascribed to a conservative bent in my ear, and perhaps for that reason I most enjoyed the Tower Music of Alan Hovhaness. Tranquil and lush, the music reflected a mood of quiet contemplation. Walker's musicians took full advantage of the opportunity for richness and filled the Eliot hall with perfectly blended harmonies...
...monastery in Luxembourg, among surrealists in Paris, in the Communist Party. His novels have faithfully reflected the current state of his search. Independent People, for instance, which won him the 1955 Nobel Prize, deals with Icelandic freeholders battling capitalist landowners. In his latest novel, Laxness, now 60, takes a tranquil, detached look at man's age-old quest for paradise and in delicately laced, gently ironic prose shows how elusive paradise...
Only occasionally, as in Off the Coast of Cornwall, did Inness' paintings turn stormy. Usually they were tranquil scenes in which rivers rippled rather than roared, and the winds that ruffled the trees were rarely rougher than breezes. As the years passed, Inness softened his outlines until all the shapes and forms of nature seemed about to melt together. At their best, his paintings have a rare dreamlike unity: every tree and bush is in its place, but never so greedy for attention as to jolt the overall harmony...