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...sitting in front of the keyboard of a white word processor, the ex-President works about eight hours a day. As the bright green letters appear on the screen, he speaks the words out loud. Around 7, he realizes that breakfast is near when he hears Amy practicing her violin down the hall...
...ritual gestures of protest against "high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would...
DIED. William Primrose, 77, world's foremost viola virtuoso whose sweet, pure tone and musicianship raised the viola to the rank of the violin and cello as a solo instrument; in Provo, Utah. The Glasgow-born Primrose was a violin prodigy before he switched to the larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with...
...light, more than anything else, in landscape; Constable's surface, dewed with points of white and radiantly matinal, seems "truer" than Ruisdael's. We no longer want meadows to have, as some English academician is supposed to have said, the color of an old violin. But if one views Ruisdael's work against the conventions of his own day, it is easier to understand how original he really was-how inventive in form, how specific in vision...
...burgeoning drug culture, Reed, the Underground's songwriter, graphically described the joys and horrors of narcotics, life on the streets, and, ten years before the punks, the general decay of society. The music was fresh--an amalgam of raw, sometimes un-melodic guitar solos and John Cale's imaginative violin in tunes so unorthodox they assaulted listeners. Countless punk and new wave bands of the 70s drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground which--after a four-year existence and a few classic tracks like "Sweet Jane" and "Waiting for the Man"--called it quits...