Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. John Galsworthy: "Her talent was unique among us. . . . her work stirs and excites us, and so quietly; it is an expression of the mood in love with life. It has the rare flavor that endures. Beautiful work...
...have sound. That sound was music. It is a common feeling with movie fans that a stretch of picture without music seems unnatural. Few people have witnessed a film exhibition without the accompaniment of at least a piano. A certain dramatic stretch of picture may be given a curious flavor and the emphasis of the unusual by keeping the music silent. Why is this? Is it that the human mind demands sound with action? What follows from it? That in the motion picture is a possibility for powerful and vital musical form? A thing is at a great advantage...
That enterprising impresario, Max Rabinoff, announced the establishment of the American Institute of Operatic Art at Stony Point, N. Y., historical spot where Mad Anthony Wayne did certain prodigies, which themselves, as related in school histories, have an operatic flavor. This new musical establishment, it is stated, will contain a great variety of beneficent marvels. Singers will be taught. Operas will be given, including American operas. Singers will be given opportunities to appear in actual performances and to get routine experience. American composers will be invited to bring their scores and have them tried out in rehearsal...
...usually made up of good musicians, fellows competent to play in symphony orchestras. They play the notes of their jazz scores like good musicians-on the beat, strict time, precise rhythm. They have not the remotest idea of the perversions of the time beats that gives jazz its peculiar flavor-naturally, because they are good musicians trained to the sacred principle of accurate rhythm, the foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played jazz is a frightful row, stiff, harsh and unattractive. It is even worse than the genuine American jazz, though...
...flavor of Aldous Huxley's 17 essays...