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Igor Stravinsky, one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.
This category is about Neoclassicism in music, as it existed as an art movement from the early 20th century on.. Neoclassicism in music differs from Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing: Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing is a style that revives the imagery and forms of classical antiquity: the art movement that exemplifies this kind of neoclassicism had its peak in late 18th ...
From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau: Realism: The mid-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns [40]
In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the ...
List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response; List of French haute-contre roles; List of historical opera characters; List of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music productions; List of musical items in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo; List of performances of French grand operas at the Paris Opéra; List of premieres at the ...
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
American Symphony Orchestra: Digital release by the ASO [15] Premiere orchestral recording of the original 1946 version 2014 Lt. Col. Jason Fettig United States Marine Band: Altissimo Recordings [16] Final movement only; 1946 version as transcription for wind band 2015 Carlos Kalmar: Oregon Symphony: Pentatone [17] 1966 published version (with ...
Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist, the poems are often aesthetically disparate. [65] The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the 1920s involving many African-American writers from the New York Neighbourhood of Harlem. [66]