At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at "the center of world awareness, " thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of "American culture"? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what way...
At the Center explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine "centers" or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.
String Quartet Concert Suite for Howard Blake's beloved Christmas classic, The Snowman. Score only. Konzert-Suite für Strecihquartett von Howard Blakes beliebtem Weihnachtsklassiker, 'The Snowman' (Der Schneemann). Partitur.