Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the music itself, but a great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that...
...1930s were a different story. The depression cut into its subscription list, but the Guild lost ground in Manhattan because so many of its productions lacked the old vitality. During the '30s the Guild often neglected good young talent for bad, produced Maxwell Anderson's inflated poetic dramas, second-rate O'Neill, third-rate Shaw...
...Poetry in Glass and Color" was the topic of a talk given in Widener Poetry Room yesterday by Charles J. Connick, America's foremost stained-glass artist. Connick maintains that colored glass has poetic qualities because of its constantly changing moods--moods which vary with every kind of weather and each position of the sun. Also, he says, distance changes the effect of the glass by softening harsh lines which are very obvious at short range...
Written by two young English poets, W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, the poetic tragedy presents the problem of creating the supposedly highest mountain peak in the world, F6, on the uniquely shaped stage, which will be extended out into the audience...
...hear it with the Chicago Symphony, Harris' Third Symphony had become the most talked-about U. S. composition in a decade. Said Koussevitzky: "This is the first truly great symphonic work to be written in America." Chicago critics, admiring its lean economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners it was not so much pure U. S. music as pure Harris...