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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  The History of Jim Crow
Olin Downes, the fair’s director of music, resigned, and the fair cancelled $51,000.00 in future performance contracts.
Todd announced that he set the ticket price range from 40 cents to $1.65 (they eventually ran from 40 cents for general admission to 75 cents and 99 cents for reserved seats) and added 14 performers to the cast to fulfill the terms of the fair contract.
Broadway director Hassard Short restaged the show down to an hour’s performance, with the scenery built on platforms to facilitate the many rapid changes.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_es_newyorkfair.htm   (2651 words)

  
 ArtsJournal: About Last Night
In the Wings, who was all but jumping up and down with excitement when the curtain fell at evening's end.
I gave her a tour of the Teachout Museum, after which we went to the Neue Galerie to have a snack in the oh-so-Viennese café and look over the Egon Schiele retrospective (very impressive, but that man was one way sick cookie).
Then we strolled back across Central Park, dined at Kitchen 82, and went down to Broadway to catch the new revival of Sweeney Todd, she for the first time, I for the second.
terryteachout.com   (6479 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Sonata form Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The early 20th century saw an attack on the extended sonata form, and a search my many composers for more organic and more compressed sonata forms.
Critics such as Olin Downes proclaimed the idea that the sonata form's vigor was an analogy for social and artistic vigor, and a defense against empty works.
At the same time, adherence to established structures took on a different meaning in Soviet Russia, where composers who failed to compose along established lines were accused of "formalism", as opposed to the established sonata forms which were called "natural" and "realistic".
www.ipedia.com /sonata_form.html   (5477 words)

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