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...spasm of isolation that would inevitably follow a period as expansive as the sixties and an experience as searing as the war in Vietnam. This mood of disaffiliation has these roots and others as well and it casts a longer shadow. We are coming to the end of the twentieth century, and the knowledge we bear weighs heavy. Part of our knowledge is the realization that systems, technological and ideological, in which we had such faith, have their limits, and that we may have reached those limits and are being left with only the fragments of our hopes...
Music of the Twentieth Century--Works of Sirota, Thow, Dello Toio and Del Tredici. At Boston University School for the Arts, 855 Comm. Ave., Boston, at 8 p.m. Free. Call...
...father the refusal of anyone in the twentieth century to become part of the Catholic Church was not pitiable; it was malicious and willful. Culpable ignorance, he called it. He loved the sense of his own orthodoxy, of holding out for the purest and the finest and the most refined sense of truth against the slick hucksters who promised happiness on earth and the supremacy of human reason...
...Longy faculty will give a free recital on Monday at 8:30 p.m. of works for two violins and piano. The program includes compositions by Haydn and Mozart as well as a premiere of a piece by Babadjianian. Call 876-0956. On Tuesday, Longy offers a Recital of Twentieth Century Flute Music, including the work of Boulez, Klebe, Varese, Jolivet and Schumann. Andrea Mason and Michael DeWart perform at 8:30 p.m.; for further information on the free concert, call...
...works from the Abstract Expressionist period is simply its presence in the museum which seems hard-pressed to give much attention to the existence of modern art. The Fogg has presented several temporary shows of modern art in recent years, but the museum keeps its permanent collection of twentieth century work largely away from the public gaze in libraries, offices and storerooms...