Word: exoticism
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In spite of its name, however, the Orchestra showed little affinity for the performance of Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such...
Not all hippos have waddled along Happy's slippery path into anonymity. In New York, at the Bronx Zoo, an exotic quartet of two pygmy hippos and a young hippo couple (Peter II and Phoebe) have kept the local journals happy. In the St. Louis Zoo, Harry, the resident hippopotamus...
Starting in the eastern Caribbean, Hurricane Hazel pottered harmlessly over the water for an entire week, poking tentatively westward, turning leisurely to the north. Then Hazel hit Haiti. Like many another lady tourist in that exotic land, Hazel went wild.
Greek Folk Songs and Dances (Royal Greek Festival Co.; Esoteric). Odd and unexpected rhythms, exotic harmonies, haunting melodic patterns and some rarely recorded instruments, e.g., lira (viol), santir (dulcimer), wooden spoons, go into one of the most interesting and unusual albums of the year.
The sum of success in all these parts is a triumph of the whole, and the triumph belongs to Director Ophuls. The hybrid style he has developed, with its exotic fertilizations from a dozen earlier epochs, has at last produced a mature fruit-a sort of artistic pomegranate. The flavor...