Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swans and fishermen riding on a serene sheet of water stitched with silver light: this is the epitome of civilized landscape. Like the best work of Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th century Dutchman whom Constable considered a master of "natural" vision, Wivenhoe Park manages to be both real and ideal; it is a powerful (though subdued) instrument of fantasy as well as an exact rendition of General Rebow's family seat...
...lively Orchestra Hall, its home since 1974. The Utah Symphony's warm, responsive Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City, built in 1979, is the most impressive of all. The work of Acoustician Cyril Harris, it is as good as Boston's Symphony Hall, long considered the ideal. "A hall is both an inspiration and a challenge to an orchestra," says Richard Cisek, president of the Minnesota Orchestral Association. "A bad hall finds an orchestra trying to compensate for it, whereas a good hall lets the musicians very quickly know how well they're performing...
Lemann remembered Fickett as the "ideal of the New England schoolmarm" personality, with her "downeast" appearance and voice. Even in the hot summer, Lemann said, she would go into the business office "in her schoolmarm clothes," open the sliding wooden window and "not let anything phase...
...imagination have been aroused most keenly by doubt, the sense that every act, individual and civic, leads perilously into the unknown. Looking backward is not the job such a mind performs best, as Ancient Evenings proves. The book is a gesture of obeisance to graven images and an abstract ideal, dutifully performed by an inherently disruptive spirit...
...Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers who have tried their hand at native grand opera include William Schuman, Aaron Copland, Douglas Moore, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and the prolific Gian Carlo Menotti. But few of their works are frequently heard. The American national opera remains an elusive ideal, and even Porgy, for all its popularity, does not quite qualify...