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Kenneth Fuchs, a music composition professor at the University of Connecticut, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical, for his album “Cloud Slant.” ....
Barbara Rose THERE ARE FEW INSTANCES IN WHICH the critic has to evaluate work that has had some special personal significance for him; but those instances are often the most challenging. When I abandoned the provinces, I came to New York to study the Old Masters. But Morningside Heights soon proved less compelling than 57th Street. This was something I couldn’t justify for a long time. One day, however, I saw abstract paintings that succeeded in preserving many of the qualities I admired in the Old Masters especially the lightness and airiness of the great “painterly” painters like the Venetians without turning back to their techniques or images. Although I did not drop the Old Masters on the spot, I realized I was more drawn to these contemporary paintings than to past art because they recreated a long tradition of painting within the terms of my own experience. ....