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Forged to perfection as a child, he used this strategy all his life, intellectually. Seeger also suggested that his susceptibility to being beaten by bullies as a child contributed to his cultivation of nonviolence. This was supported by the ethics he learned from his Unitarian parents who supported the Christian ethos of love, kindness, and chivalry. Seeger also inherited from his parents a respect for the "good life," being monied, and occupying a certain position in the world. When his father visited Europe on business in the early 1900s, according to Charles, he observed a class-divided society and decided at which social level he wanted to live; Charlie acquired this attitude, too.
Then we-would be taken off to the nursery for supper while Father and Mother were served in the dining room. As we went to sleep one could hear fragments of Tristan and the Ring in piano arrangements or graceful Mexican danzas floating up from the drawing room. When there were guests for dinner, we would slip out of bed and hang Charles and Alan. Staten Island, 1894 26 Charles Seeger over the banisters of the staircase in wonderment about what it could be that gave rise to . . laughter. As we grew older, we graduated one by one to dinner with the adults.
His music progresses by standing still. . Form ceases to be an ordering in time like ABA and reduces to a single brief image, an instantaneous whole both fixed and moving . . " Ravel and Debussy experimented in different ways with the idea of readjustment of values. French composers after 1883 adopted many of the ideas of the artistic school of impressionism, especially as exhibited in the paintings of Monet, Cezanne, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Later, by 1910, the musical world of France had found new allegiances to fauvism and cubism.