Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...draftsman of the human figure. Ryder could make dramatic, even magical conjunctions of shape. His color, judging from what is left of it, was rich. But he drew feebly. New York in the early 1870s could not give an art student much more than a remote echo of beaux arts disciplines in that department. The convention is to treat this as Ryder's good luck: it enabled his native, visionary qualities to prosper, unsullied by academic convention...
Oakland's beaux arts-style city hall, opened in 1914, remains uninhabitable. Repairing it will take three years and cost at least $80 million. Last week the Bishop of Oakland, the Most Rev. John S. Cummins, announced that St. Francis de Sales Cathedral and Sacred Heart Church would have to be torn down % because the diocese could not afford the $8 million price tag for repairing them...
...Brahms trio was performed with considerably more finesse. The broad, tragic opening of the first movement has a striking harmonic similarity to Beethoven's fifth symphony, and the trio expressed this character very clearly. The Beaux Arts musicians seemed more in their element playing dense Romantic music than in the delicate and witty Haydn which preceded...
...Brahms trio is very symphonic in style, and the Beaux Arts Trio treated it accordingly. While the performance itself was not without flaws, the musicians accurately captured the overall mood for which the piece called...
...provincial renown the Beaux ArtsTrio enjoys unfortunately does not extend tothe Harvard student population. The hundreds oflisteners who fill Sanders Theater weekday nightstend to be adults. While the high price of tickets($18) and the inconvenient scheduling of theconcerts might be prohibitive, the performancesare inarguably strong and a refreshing respitefrom the pressures of hectic university life