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...Safer” and “Water Curses,” failed to predict the shift toward “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” it’s understood that Animal Collective are nothing if not unpredictable. For the moment, this piece appears to complete the triptych that began with “Person Pitch,” but the eternal question of what they will do next has become as much a part of the fabric of the band as the music itself.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...naked bodies coupling inside a mussel shell or munching oversize pieces of fruit, or Hell's kissing pigs disguised as nuns, with an ease that - given the work's size and intricacy - would be denied a visitor standing before the actual 7-by-13-ft. (220 by 390 cm) triptych...
...members - unfamiliar with the tradition of the encore - left the hall. Perahia returned to play some more, and the remaining audience not only applauded, but let out a full-throated, almost primal whoop, one that seemed equal parts surprise, delight and palpable gratitude. Every performer strives to elicit that triptych of feelings. Only the rarest ones - in the rarest places - manage to achieve...
...NEED A GREEN REVOLUTION—AND HOW IT CAN RENEW AMERICA by Thomas L. Friedman The painting that stretches across the top and bottom thirds of this hardback is the middle panel of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a 16th-century triptych by Hieronymous Bosch. The painting depicts, among many other things, naked people and imaginary creatures fiddling around with one another’s orifices. Art historians agree that these fanciful beings are having a good, sexy time, but what in the Sam Hill kind of revolution is Friedman arguing for? Something...
...Forbidden,” was a professor in the Harvard University Music Department from 1961 until his retirement in 1989. Now living in New York City, Kirchner composed the orchestral version of “The Forbidden” as the third part of his triptych of the same name, which includes a piano sonata written in 2003 and a string quartet from 2006. Kirchner, who studied with both Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg, describes this piece as a mixture of past compositional techniques with contemporary twelve-tone techniques. Although “The Forbidden” was originally commissioned...