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...ground. Partly, this reflects rock's recent absorption of jazz and the blues, in which the piano has always played a predominant role. More important, many of today's leading rock composers find the range and nuance of the piano more suitable for the personal, diverse and poetic turn rock is taking...
...concertos Nos. 17, 20 and 21 are still too bland and bloodless. This year's set of the complete Beethoven 32 (like his current Tully Hall cycle) has weaknesses, notably a prevailing glibness in the remote, mysterious late sonatas. But his approach has deepened to provide brilliant moments, poetic tone painting as well as intellect. Clearly, Barenboim is working on his problems. As he puts it disarmingly: "You don't get better at music by not playing...
...rock's swiftly broadening standards, Harrison's musical spectrum is almost Wagnerian in its width and style. The poetic spectrum of his lyrics-mainly about fear of loneliness or love of God, of his wife, of love itself-is narrow, but still capable of bite...
...eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with the human brain...
...poetic interpreters of nature who are the most interesting figures in the Yale exhibition: Dahl Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. Friedrich's landscapes, with their pulsating white moons, flat dark seas and clawing oaks, personify the sense of an immanence of God in nature that was the core of his art. "A picture," Friedrich wrote, "must not be devised but perceived. Shut your corporeal eye, so that you see first your picture with your spiritual eye." It was a German parallel to William Blake's observation: "I Question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than...