MoMA Animates the Case for Experimental ’Toons
By WILL FRIEDWALD
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On the tombstone of Anton Webern in the Austrian Tyrol is engraved a Latin motto with five rows and five columns of letters. The sentence reads the same horizontally as vertically. Webern loved this sort of wordplay and fashioned many of his miniature compositions in the same double acrostic manner. The most complex of these constructions is his Concerto from 1934, which was the centerpiece of the concert on Saturday at Zankel Hall as the Ensemble ACJW offered their first valedictory evening.
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|On the tombstone of Anton Webern in the Austrian Tyrol is engraved a Latin motto with five rows and five columns of letters. The sentence reads the same horizontally as vertically. Webern loved this sort of wordplay and fashioned many of his miniature compositions in the same double acrostic manner. The most complex of these constructions is his Concerto from 1934, which was the centerpiece of the concert on Saturday at Zankel Hall as the Ensemble ACJW offered their first valedictory evening.
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