Word: classicistic
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...still packed them in. His ballet, Fancy Free (for which he wrote the music), was the most popular Ballet Theatre attraction at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Nervous, earnest Bernstein has still not decided whether he wants to be a composer or a conductor, a jazzman or a classicist. Last week he led the municipally owned New York City Symphony for the first time, after only one week of rehearsals. He had replaced more than half of the musicians inherited from Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Now there was only one slightly bald head in the whole orchestra. There were twelve...
...Classicist's Delight...
...finished only five chapters of his autobiography when he died. But they are the most important chapters of his life, because they show clearly the shaping of the citizen-classicist through childhood and youth (1863-86). The stately prose, and the way of life it describes, may seem to 1945 readers as strange and faraway as Horace-which is just what makes Memories and Opinions worth reading...
...striking illustration of what is going on throughout the U.S. in church music. For the past decade, music directors and organists of big city parishes have been vigorously campaigning to throw out the oldtime Victorian anthems and Gospel hymns and substitute the works of the so-called "pure classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement...
...secret of Latin teaching, as revealed in the Atlantic Monthly by Harvard's great 72-year-old classicist emeritus, Edward Kennard Rand (who served as an exchange professor at the Sorbonne a decade...