Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left, by Richard Tauber, romantic tenor who made a few fortunes singing champagne-&-waltz schmalz in Viennese operettas: $9,962.16, no will.
He scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with...
There has been a lot of ink spilled over the grandeur of the Missa. Bulbous-headed little men have gone around spreading the misconception that the Missa isn't really a mass at all, much less a dirty old Catholic mass. Catholic masses are supposed to be sung in monotones...
The D'Oyly Carte, now at the shubert, is performing "The Mikado" with all the polish and humor that the operetta needs. Martyn Green, who is one of the funniest men around in any company, climbs up the scenery and mugs furiously, but he hardly ever steps outside his role...
Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents...