Word: symphonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later expressionist composers. But Bruckner can be dismissed as easily, and with as much in telligence, as can Beethoven or Chartres Cathedral. This image of an uninspired symphonic rhetorician of beleaguered loquacity, "tortive and errant" as Shakespeare's Agamemnon, must yield to a clearer portrait of a consummately endowed symphonist firmly in the classical tradition...
Freeing Color. To hear the artist tell it, the most interesting thing about his painting is the way in which it "liberates color." The son of a pathologist, he was educated at Black Mountain College, where he studied under another symphonist of structured color, Josef Albers. He became disenchanted with the way in which second-generation Abstract Expressionists were covering their canvases with empty, bombastic gestures. The trouble, he decided, was that they were using their brushes to draw, and "drawing contains assumptions of what you are painting about. It has to do with identifying things, with graphic representation...
...American Symphonist Roger Sessions is going to be a difficult composer for the public to like. At Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall last week, his new Eighth Symphony-masterful in its lyric use of twelve-tone principles, fearless in its glacial austerity-laid one of the big eggs of the season. At the close, few in the audience even realized the work was over; men were caught with their arms folded, women with fingers entwined in their coiffures. Thus surprised, they were able to summon up only enough applause to give Sessions and Conductor Steinberg a single extra...
Composers are as jealous as prima donnas, says American Symphonist Benjamin Lees, 44. "You can have lots of them for friends as long as your music isn't being performed more than theirs." So popular is his music these days at concerts of the Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit symphonies and a host of lesser orchestras, that Lees runs the risk of never again getting a friend ly greeting from any of his colleagues...
...daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...