Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compelling dynamics and deep insight. His reading of the symphony was especially capable and muscianly, his interpretation of the third movement (allegro molto vivace) a triumph although it seems to us that he missed much of the flowing grace of the Allegro congrazia. The rather bombastic finale seems an anticlimax to the truly masterful third movement. The symphony however deserves to be heard much more frequently...
...anticlimax cam Liszt's "Battle of the Huns"; other than that it recalls Tschaikowsky's "1812" overture, and is without the interest of that rather noisy work, perhaps there is nothing to be said...
...which the authors will be heartily ashamed in about three years. The line, "full of the pep, that has made Harvard's rep" in the song is beyond words--and we hold no particular brief for the words of the Hymn--"for God, for Harvard, and for "greatest anticlimax ever written", perpetrated a number of years ago by a devout Eli. We reiterate, however, that the music is good--but then we don't know anything about music