Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity...
...left his school behind. He went on to a preoccupation with 18th-Century counterpoint, and shocked his fellow revolutionaries by having a good word for a romantic composer like Tchaikovsky. In his new symphony, Stravinsky carries his musical vagabonding a step further-blending a kind of Tchaikovskian and Brahmsian romanticism with jazzy rhythms. The Carnegie Hall audience gave it a polite hearing, and several rounds of applause which seemed intended primarily as a tribute to Stravinsky rather than to his symphony. The critics felt the same...
After the dreary hours of sea and nothingness the village on the County Clare coast looked like a picture post card. The heart of young (22), romantic Dick Bergman, flying home to Holland from America, was filled with a deep yearning for Kilkee. Bergman soulfully wrote to Kilkee's...
And when Cio-Cio-San committed hara-kiri there were many tear-filled eyes. The Met's general manager Edward Johnson, who in his tenor days sang Pinkerton some 50 times, is inclined to absolve him. Said he: "He's no villain, really. He's a romantic...
It is probably for these reasons that Koussevitzky rarely plays classical music, and never pre-classical. Little Haydn, no Handel, and no Schubert is heard in Boston. Koussevitzky's selections among Romantic composers are generally restricted to that Virgil Thomson calls "the symphonists that descend from Brahms'--Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, etc...