Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent.
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this...
Whether, like Albert, Philip would live up to these words; whether, like Albert, he would become Prince Consort in title as well as in fact were questions for the solemn future. For the moment, most Britons were content with the romantic present. "Ain't he just the answer," cooed...
Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora."
Linden was predominantly Protestant and officially dry, but the Massasoit House lay conveniently over the town line in wet Revere. Paul, who established a lifelong regard for alcohol in his teens, speaks with romantic awe of the Massasoit House crowd, which included his Uncle Reuben. They were kindly, lovable, generous...