Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that lingered at concert's end to try to find out exactly what they had heard. (Said Lenny to the 400: "I compliment you.") Since then, many a conductor has deemed Time Cycle worthy of one, if not two, hearings, and it has become a frequently performed modernist work. Last week at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont., it was played with Foss himself conducting from the piano. Festival Co-Director Glenn Gould praised it as "the most important work in the last ten years...
...modernist. Composer Ward, 44, turned out an orchestral score that holds few surprises; occasionally it is clamorously obvious, but at its best it admirably illuminates the singers' moods. The main strength of the score is in the vocal parts -vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
Died. Max Weber, 80, Russian-born dean of U.S. modern art, who studied in the avant-garde art world of Paris at the turn of the century, was influenced by Cezanne and Matisse, returned to become the first U.S. modernist, working in every form from painting to sculpture; after a long illness; in Great Neck, N.Y. Weber believed that "science proves to the mind; art reveals the heart," in 1929 had the first one-man show in New York's Museum of Modern...
Love at First Sound. A modernist who was grounded in classical techniques, Schuman never strayed into the far-out realms of atonality or mechanical idiosyncrasies. His serious musical education started late, but he learned fast. As a boy on Manhattan's upper West Side, Schuman was totally uninterested in anything long-haired. He had a passing fling with jazz, played the banjo and the violin in a jazz band he formed in high school, and wrote, with Frank Loesser, such pop songs as In Love with the Memory of You. Baseball was his enduring passion: "Had I been...
Headed by Clarinetist Bill Smith and Pianist Johnny Eaton, the Jazz Ensemble prides itself on being "bilingual," e.g., mixing cool jazz with rigorously difficult modernist works by Roger Sessions, Darius Milhaud, Eaton himself. Whatever it plays, the ensemble likes to force its instruments to their outer limits. When at tacking modernist music, Eaton, for instance, favors dissonant jumps from one end of the keyboard to the other, violently plucks at the piano's innards to get a harp effect. Smith has developed a technique of aiming his clarinet directly at the piano strings to create weird and ghostly harmonics...