Scope and Contents I once made the mistake of listening to a recording of Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet. Working through the impressive 25 Years box set of the Kronos Quartet, iTunes told me the piece would be one hour, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds. I dug my heels in and hit play, ready to be blown away. Instead, I was treated to almost 80 minutes of musical Chinese water torture. Feldman repeated the same flashes of sound and color over and over again, without any change in pitch, dynamics, rhythm,...

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We don't normally associate austerity and self-effacing understatement with Texas, especially with free-wheeling Houston—city of oil, money, bayous, sports and urban cowboys. But courtesy of one great immigrant couple from France, John (1904-73) and Dominique (1908-97) de Menil, this city with no zoning laws possesses a locus of spiritual and artistic calm in the middle of a tranquil, verdant, in-town residential neighborhood abutting the University of St. Thomas.

Scope and Contents Some performances highlight repertoire, others focus on the performing artists. Rothko Chapel’s 40th anniversary concert promises an experience. Presenting works that tie to a milestone in Rothko Chapel’s continuum, the chosen repertoire was appropriate for the space’s spiritual energy and acoustics.The repertoire and performers delivered in the first show Friday night.Rothko Chapel’s dual vocations, contemplation and action — represented in the building’s...

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Individual media articles referencing the Rothko Chapel are listed here

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Scope and Contents “It’s not my mission to turn Davies Symphony Hall into an Imax theater,” Michael Tilson Thomas, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said in a recent telephone interview. “But there is a whole vocabulary to be explored here, and we’re only in the early stages of its development.”The San Francisco Symphony’s coming 100th-anniversary season, announced in detail recently, will showcase the inventive and star-spangled programming for which the orchestra has become known....

Scope and Contents "The Rothko Chapel is oriented toward the sacred, and yet it imposes no traditional environment. It offers a place where a common orientation could be found — an orientation towards God, named or unnamed, an orientation towards the highest aspirations of Man and the most intimate calls of the conscience." In 1964, Dominique de Menil commissioned the American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko to create this environment. Although he never lived to see his completed vision,...