Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Notte--Four "night" works by as many composers, including Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." The surprise of the set, performed by the Lucerne Festival Strings, is Boccherini's evocative quintet, "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid," which alone is worth the price of admission. (Vanguard...
Concert of Early Music--This anthology offered up by Musica Reservata of London would serve as an excellent introduction to the pleasures of Middle Ages and Renaissance music. Twenty-five short pieces, in a variety of styles, handsomely performed on a veritable armory of old instruments. (Vanguard...
Rameau: Harpsichord Suites--English harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock, whose stature mounts with each new recording, has embarked on a complete Rameau set. Three volumes of these engaging, witty, sometimes wry pieces are rich with rewarding moments and Pinnock's formidable technique. (Vanguard...
...inspired by any one of a thousand doomsaying paperbacks. In some, people stood close together, two to each square foot of soil. Others gave dreams of the winter without oil, or the year that the Third World collectively decided it had suffered long enough at our expense and sent vanguard elements to wreak havoc. Many feared nothing more complicated than nuclear holocaust; and a few still thought that, after all, it might be the Communists. If the peddlers of survival gear are to be believed, people have of late begun to act on their fears, caching enormous stores of dehydrated...
Strikes in Poland [Sept. 15] have exposed a paradox of modern history: no external force could shake the closed citadel of a Communist regime except the very workers who were regarded as the vanguard of the proletarian revolution...