Word: banally
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...good. It appeals, like all melodrama of its type, primarily in the same manner as the oldtime whooping Indian movie. The play is full of situations. They come as fast as a redskin dodging from tree to tree. And towards the end these rapid shifts grow banal...
This Jeritza is a miracle of that vague quality we call personality. No one of those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...
...winning London for three years, and the whole of this country during an extensive tour. But New Haven, accustomed to passing independent judgment, was inclined to be inhospitable. Professor John Million Berdan, of Yale and Early Tudor fame, took the double role of Burke and Boswell, calling the Play banal and immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions, appealed to the police; and a censoring sortie ensued which stirred the Yale News to earnest defense, playing Johnson to Berdan's Boswell. The performance went on but the increase in highway robberies on the road to Savin...
...sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve as a perfect model. It is a pity then to think that he is only known to us through "Scheherazade", "Capricco Espagnol", and "LeCoq...
...Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...