Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gustave Charpentier, 95, French composer (the romantic opera Louise which was premiered in 1900, the orchestral suite Impressions of Italy); in Paris
Jazzman Sidney Bechet soloes in his own Ballet, which has been a success in France. The story concerns a somnambulist who kills his family while he is asleep, only to be led to his own death by a slave. The music at first alternates between late romantic and jazz styles...
When 67-year-old Artur Rubinstein swept his coattails back and sat elegantly down at his Steinway one night last week, many in the crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall felt they were about to listen to the best living pianist. All of them knew that they were to...
Two widely divergent contemporary operas were presented this weekend at Harvard and B.U. The first was The Man in The Man-Made Moon, by Joel Mandelbaum '53, given its world premier Saturday night. For the hour-long opera Mandelbaum wrote both the music and the libretto. His work is mostly...
The original finding of Cave One at Qumran, near the Dead Sea, makes a romantic tale of chance. Two shepherds, searching for a stray goat, climbed four hundred feet up a steep rock-fall. One of them casually tossed a rock to scare the goat. The missile entered a small...