Several players attribute a continuity in sound to the generational connection from teacher to student within the orchestra, especially through the superb Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
Mr. Wilson refers to this artist, in an accompanying wall panel, as an Abstract Expressionist; while the generational connection is apt, the label suits the painter only if it used in a general rather than a specific sense -- in the way that it might refer to Wassily Kandinsky's paintings of the 'teens, for instance.
The immediacy of the generational connections, like so much else these days, reinforces the proximity of the Civil War.
We Go Home is streaked with such familial and generational connections, with many of the lyrics featuring references to famous Leonard Cohen hits.
And history becomes a matter of half-forgotten generational connections, teased out in an array of echoing stories that move, never consecutively, from 18th-century Franciscan explorations through Mormon silver-miners and ethnographic meetings with the natives, into a present of shabby motels and squalid small towns from which Iraqi immigrants are coopted into military simulations.
"The main 'news,' demographically, is that the Marian Robinsons now have many fewer daughters — and their daughters are much more likely to have a living mother — making such generational connections feasible over a longer span than when few grandmothers survived — and had too many daughters to do them all much good".
The donation of the UMG archive to the Library of Congress is a major gift to the nation that will help maintain the inter-generational connection that is essential to keeping alive, in our collective national memory, the music and sound recordings meaningful to past generations".
But there are cross-generational connections too.
All the cross-generational connections in this book are vaguely or extremely unsatisfying in some way.
Mr. Cooper has also made astute cross-generational connections throughout, and put Washington painters — Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis — in a spotlight.
Generally the lines dividing painting and sculpture, insider and outsider, art and craft are blurred, Donald Judd's notion of "specific objects" is fruitfully expanded and telling cross-generational connections are illuminated.
