Word: serialism
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...becoming," said 77-year-old Igor Stravinsky, "not less but more of a serial composer." The reference was to his latest work, a twelve-minute exercise in what the most famed living composer calls "anti-tonality." Titled Movements for Piano and Orchestra, the work had its world premiere last week in Manhattan's Town Hall before an audience that was attentive and respectful, and unmoved...
Stravinsky has experimented more and more daringly in recent years with the serial or tone-row technique developed by his late great rival, Arnold Schoenberg (this technique is built on a freely selected series of individual tones rather than on the limited, key-oriented diatonic scale). But Stravinsky has added some of his own style to the serial method. In his book, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Doubleday; $4), Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added...
...even Tangle Towns was a middle ground the News and the Mirror had run contests, but nothing unduly taxing to their readers' intellects. The News contests generally required the ability to read numerals and a knowledge of the alphabet (like the Lucky Bucks game, which had contestants comparing the serial numbers of dollar bills to a set printed in the paper; when they matched, the News gave a prize to those who were bright enough to discover the fact). Tangle Towns was tougher: You needed to know the entire alphabet well (upside down and sideways, too), and a little American...
Controlling their own show, Network Programing Director Eugene Hallman, 40, and TV Program Director Douglas Nixon, 44, aim for a magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...E.D.T.) is made up of the best kind of science fiction: stories that come as close as careful research can bring them to becoming documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...