Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preceded by boredom. Thus, the excitement of the best moments of a baseball game. This is the kind of effect that this year's Christmas concert seems to have been aiming at. For in each half of the program, a sensationalistic Te Deum was preceded by a dull, plodding piece of music-to-vacuum-clean...
...this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
Listening to the Bach Society Concert, one might have recalled Rossini's wry remark about Wagner: "He has his brilliant moments, yes--and his dull quarters of an hour." Yet the orchestra's successes, as surely as Tannhauser's, more than compensated for the generous lapses in between...
...with his affection for his family. His tone is too flat, too conversational, and the tension he should feel is not apparent. When he tries to be tender, he only whines; when he tries to be angry, he only shouts. The sharp insight he should have is muted and dull...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...