Rhapsodic

Elliot Bennett’s “Up Close and Personal” photography exhibit at the West Tisbury library is a rhapsodic experience of her love of the natural world.

And a rhapsodic Camille Paglia makes the case for Streisand as a feminist icon, seeing a fierce revolutionary spirit in her “uncompromising Jewishness” and her lifelong “outspokenness”.

And that's exactly what the piece is: a miniature operatic-rhapsodic-symphonic-tone-poem.

Each one exploits rhapsodic ideas but is unique in its own form.

Three major works were premiered that year: Varèse's Déserts, for chamber ensemble and tape sounds, and two works by Luening and Ussachevsky: Rhapsodic Variations for the Louisville Symphony and A Poem in Cycles and Bells, both for orchestra and tape.