Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging lone wolf of Mexican art, Painter Rufino Tamayo, his country's greatest modernist, has never hesitated to deliver outspoken blasts at Marxism. In Mexico's Red-dominated art world, this earned him some formidable foes; chief among them, naturalistic Muralist Diego Rivera. Just as they, clashed over politics, Communist Rivera and Tamayo, who wears no political label, disagreed about art: Tamayo shied away from Rivera's hard-lined propagandist works, and Rivera had no love for Tamayo's warm-toned semiabstractions. For 20 years the two artists have exchanged few kind words. Last week Tamayo...
...room, none had come closer than the non-transparent doors leading to the locker room. But there was method in Orval's mendacity: Little Rock opinion was plainly turning against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray for the man who sent troops to Arkansas and then went back to the golf...
...through his career, Modernist Cowell has written music on request with a facility that astonishes and appalls some of his less prolific contemporaries: he has more than 800 compositions to his credit, including a dozen symphonies. Just back from a twelve-month world tour, Composer Cowell, now 60, shows not the slightest sign of slowing up. Last week his melodic, folksy Music for Orchestra 1957 was premièred in Athens by Conductor Antal Dorati (who commissioned it) and the Minneapolis Symphony, at the opening concert of the orchestra's Middle East tour...
...before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick Wilkins, conducted by the composer and released by Composers Recordings, Inc. It is a remarkable experience...
Ives: The Unanswered Question (Zimbler Sinfonietta conducted by Lukas Foss; Unicorn). A cheerfully enigmatic work by the first U.S. modernist, Charles Ives (1874-1954). Against devout, sustained strings, a quartet of flutes and a solo trumpet superimpose progressively more insistent dissonances, but finally they retire, defeated by the mellow strings...