Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 12 sides). Berlioz' blend of bombast and beauty is hard to resist in the performance of this great Amsterdam orchestra. Recording: excellent...
...Tito, written months before the public break. Last week, the Yugoslav Communist Party prepared to distribute a pamphlet containing Tito's replies. As few other documents have in recent years, the correspondence revealed the Marxist world's strange, stifling atmosphere of fear and arrogance, bickering and bombast. If the Earthworm Tractor Company's Alexander Botts had a course in Leninism he could have written letters like these...
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Ormandy catches both the power and the magnificent lyricism-and the bombast too. Recording: good...
Mixed with this slim, fable-like plot is an excruciating amalgam of bombast, sex, and stale army jokes. The bombast concerns various theories of life and love. The soldier's jokes got like this: "Now that the war is love we're making pottery." The sex involves the two principals, who remove layers of their clothes at intervals and kiss each other at length. One young observer was heard to remark: "Two people are enjoying themselves, anyway...
...played, was magnificent. It was an orgiastic reincarnation of Franz Liszt holding all Europe spellbound with his fustian brilliance. And from there on the concert retained that atmosphere. The last ensore, Horowitz's own variations on Mendelssohn's Wedding March--a composition completely Lisztian in its blend of bombast and puckishness--was the perfect bravura curtain line for the whole exhibition. Horowitz the genius; Horowitz...