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This photograph may be used to initiate astral travel but is not recommended for anyone on the verge of dying to this life.  From the University of Rhode Island’s 1966 yearbook.

Here are some of the best vintage photos I’ve collected.

The atonal music produced in the twentieth century consists of largely random outbursts that could be described as groans wrapped in mathematics.

- Sir Roger Scruton, Postmodern Music: Groans Wrapped in Mathematics

In such works as Gurrelieder, Verklärte Nacht, and Pelléas et Mélisandes, Arnold Schoenberg showed total mastery of tonality and of late romantic harmony, and these great works entered the repertoire. But by the time of the Piano Pieces, op. 11, Schoenberg was writing music which to many people no longer made sense, with melodic lines that began and ended nowhere, and harmonies that seemed to bear no relation to the principal voice.

“It is easy to dodge responsibility, but you cannot dodge the consequences of dodging responsibility.”

La fotografia di Jack Davison di Guinevere van Seenus