Word: browed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus (The Bat), considered by many to be the greatest of all operettas, bubbled out of the high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss...
These were only a starter. After them will come some 500 other artists-divas and dowagers, prodigies and spaghetti tenors, world-famed violinists and pianists, European celebrities and art-conscious radio crooners-all intent on their big moment before the nation's most exacting (and jaded) high-brow musical audience. The Manhattan recital season was off again last week to its characteristically chaotic start. At the box office, Manhattan's ticket salesmen were jubilant. As in 1917, they reported a recital boom...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
WQXR, New York is a 10,000-watter famed along the middle-eastern seaboard for its unique program policy of sticking almost exclusively to live and transcribed high-brow and medium-brow musical programs. Last week WQXR branched out in its uniqueness when, after an anonymous six-week tryout, WQXR's new 9-to-9:15 evening news roundup was identified as the TIME and LIFE Worldwide News Review. The news is written by a small, special TIME Inc. staff from dispatches supplied by the 203 far-flung correspondents of the TIME Inc. News Bureau. It was the first...
...teaching, Painter Woodruff holds to no high-brow theories about Negro art. He believes that the Negro should not hide his race ("to let the world know he can paint and sculp as well as act, sing and write") but that, as an American, he should draw his inspiration from the whole pattern of U.S. life. "We are interested," says he, "in expressing the South as a field, as a territory, its peculiar run-down landscape, its social and economic problems, the Negro people...