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...there too. And tonight (Thursday), British filmmaker Peter Watkins will introduce his documentary Edvard Munch. This is one of the most successful attempts ever made as cinematically depicting the life of an artist, with documentary as well as conventional narrative footage. The life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest expressionist artists--unappreciated during his lifetime--takes three hours to cover, but they're highly stimulating, educational and visually rewarding. And it's free. Watkins is one of the cinema's most exciting young political filmmakers...
...Bach Society Orchestra appears in its final performance of the season this Saturday, offering a program which is pretty much in the same vein as its three previous concerts this year. Although Bach Soc tends toward Bach and Classical works, it also programs a modicum of nineteenth and twentieth-century pieces. Although Bach, Haydn and Mozart were featured, the pre-Romantic era was hardly the emphasis of the concert programs this year--which included Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Mahler, Wagner, Prokofiev and Kodaly...
Final Sherry Concert of the Year--Twentieth Century Music for Flute, Cello and Piano played by Mather Music Society in Mather Dining Room...
Challenor described the problem of the twentieth century as the coincidence of the color line with the poverty line and said, "Ultimately it is not the ideological struggle between capitalists and Communists that will cause problems but the struggle between the haves and have-nots, complicated by racial issues...
...road, the timeless pacifier for restless souls. Maybe the American frontier closed around the turn of the century, but then Henry Ford started mass producing cars and the federal government started building a national highway web, and if Twentieth-Century America is left with no obvious direction in which to grow, you cannot stop Twentieth-Century Americans from going anyway, getting into big cars and getting buzzed and plunging into the interstate highway system to lose their identities in rivers of metal and asphalt that hold out the promise of something new and exciting, always just off the next exit...