Word: classically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Boston performance of the orchestral suite from Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la Fee", which was written in 1928. The ballet bears the subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression in its simplest form. I have no use for 'working-out' in dramatic or lyric music...
...brought much disappointment to first-year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time. Next April, for instance...
...which they are to sing is Liszt's Faust Symphony, which employs a chorus in its third and last movement. Written during the years 1854-57, the symphony is really neither fish nor fowl; for while composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles. It is interesting to note that the combination of the divine side of Faust's nature and the nobility...
...cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography. It has used the simple framework...
Slavic 1b--Classic Russian Literature--has become Slavic...