Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of music in wartime, British Poet Stephen Spender reported in his otherwise literate September Journal: "[T. S.] Eliot said that he did not care to listen to Beethoven so much as formerly just now. We both agreed on Bach and Gluck...
...Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...