Why is it that a city that claims to be so artistic, progressive and unique is in fact extremely vanilla?
ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT Performance Space 122's progressive artistic director, Vallejo Gantner, has taken to giving artists multiyear commitments, thus encouraging experimentation; it's easier to risk failure when you know the next gig is assured.
He interpreted it as some sort of progressive artistic statement, but it wasn't.
If you were an artistic and political progressive, Beethoven was your guy.
Between 1925 and 1928 he cofounded a number of periodicals propagating the most progressive artistic tendencies of the 1920s.
I came from a more progressive, artistic family, and I was more of a loner, a listener and observer".
By the late 80's, the notion that the personal is political -- or, to put it another way, that opposition to ideology-driven art is itself a form of ideology -- had become central to "progressive" artistic thought.
This is not the same thing as a backward version of a radically progressive artistic style, as in the United Nations Headquarters (another charge of Wallace Harrison's) — the kind of sensibility that feels the pull of the new but can't go far enough.
PHILADELPHIA — Unsettling news from the financially struggling Philadelphia Orchestra, whose recent announcement of shortened seasons, a smaller ensemble and a populist programming agenda sent tremors of shock and dismay throughout the classical-music world, paints a bleak prognosis for progressive artistic initiatives here.
Bruckner, by contrast, spent his life exploring musical principles that had been laid down centuries earlier – the laws of counterpoint, the way one musical voice interacts with another – which marked him out as a cranky weirdo in the context of the progressive artistic and intellectual scene of late 19th-century Vienna.
