Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That The Great Waltz succeeds so notably in evoking the flowery nostalgia inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage opening four years ago. Certainly, admirers of the new Vienna will find much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades...
...unreal and as graceful as the music it records and celebrates, The Great Waltz should charm most cinemaddicts, give opponents of swing their happiest moments of the season. Good sequence: Strauss, driving through the outskirts of his city at dawn, fusing the song of a bird, the notes of a shepherd's flute, the salute of a carriage horn into Tales from the Vienna Woods...
About 15 years ago, when modernist composers were making heyday, the most puritanical modernists of all were the Viennese Atonalists.* While their fellows boisterously and good-naturedly jounced the sacred applecart of musical structure, the Atonalists systematically bored into that structure like so many worms. Their music was as painful and persistent as a dentist's drill...
...authority on French music, Edward B. Hill was born in Cambridge in 1872, studied under Paine, Chadwick, and Widor, and is now a professor of music here at Harvard. Since he first wrote his concerto for the violin in 1903 it has been revised, and, like most of his works, is pleasant and traditional in form. It is being played this week end to great advantage by Ruth Posselt, the local girl who has made good...
...original contributions to the art of stage designing. In his dramatic settings, he has combined vivid coloring with striking creative imagination. He consciously strives to make the surroundings fit the mood of the play. The settings, costumes, and lighting synchronize like the different themes in a piece of music. The artist endeavors to weave an intricate pattern of emotional stimulus, accompanying, but never over-shadowing, the central dramatic action...