Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel's plot remains more or less intact, but it is laden with Lehman's heavy touches of sympathy and maudlin sentimentality. These do little to focus Roth's savage vision: Jewishness as a perpetual circumcision of the psyche...
...Merle. Doc's smooth, lively harmonica and his own virtuoso lead work make "Freight Train Boogie" a superb sample of the happily driving energy of country music. "Summertime" testifies to many of the virtues of Doc's style: the simple, straightforward vocal is deeply evocative without being at all maudlin, just as his humor on stage is warm and folksy without seeming corny in the least...
...song "Goodbye Josh," dedicated to his friend and mentor Josh White, is also straightforward, and foregoes maudlin sentiment for a simple, sincere farewell...
...before you become the least bit maudlin, the voice in the corner of the room has called you and everyone together again. Then sent all of you careening across the floor, pretending to be, as the voice desires, Greek vases. And this is quite a sight, you think, making your way across the floor, ducking, swirling and tossing back your head. All the very good, pretty, and smug dancers gallop about in the most unseemly fashion, looking at best like broncos or Isadora's scarves, but hardly to be praised by Keats...
...finesse, and that, in terms of the Chopin style, that means with a very subtle application of rubato. Many pianists, knowing that Chopin calls for rubato tend to throw it on as if with a trowel, distorting the basic metrical life of the music and making the melodies sound maudlin and oversentimental. I find it's not a bad idea, while playing practically anything of Chopin, to have the Mazurka, the most intricate of Polish forms, in the back of one's mind. Incidentally, the third movement of the concerto is referred to in one of Chopin's letters...