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...Rosovsky has now raised an issue more complex than he had, perhaps, bargained for. The solution to "Whither the liberal arts education?" is neither black nor white; if it emerges it will do so from a much more nebulous territory where Rosovsky's iron hand packs little clout...
BERNSTEIN ENTITLED his lecture series "The Unanswered Question" after Charles Ives' short chamber work of that name. Ives meant his piece to ask "the perennial question of existence," and for Bernstein, that is "Whither Music?" Before we can deal with "whither," though, we need to know "whence," and Bernstein's first five lectures are devoted to tracing the origins of what he considers a twentieth century crisis in musical development...
...Whither music? The final, triumphant answer is "yes," by which Bernstein means "tonality." He believes that his preference for tonality is more than a matter of his personal taste, that it is an innate, physical necessity. The very existence of the Viennese school's atonal music, not to mention non-tonal music of other cultures and the pre-tonal music of the Renaissance, argues that tonality is not universal, but Bernstein claims that Schoenberg denied his own inner instincts, and, outrageously, that "Schoenberg to this day has not found his public...
Reasoner Report. Whither Spiro Agnew? Harry shows us. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...Whither rock? If the salad days of Dylan, the Beatles and their near peers constituted its high renaissance, rock music has now evolved into a florid and self-conscious rococo period, which is also, sad to say, often decadent. Once the sound was what mattered most; rhapsodizing players would even turn their backs on the audience, and "performance" was almost a dirty word. Now the show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others...