Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It cannot apologize. It cannot retract any thing. ... It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to pre pare, like anarchists, with the utmost in genuity and malice." But young Isherwood soon discovers that he is going to be taught far more than the ways of the...
Let us hear more classical and middle Romantic music; give us some Debussy, some of the modern French impressionists, possibly Honegger and Milhaud. But cease pounding at the late Romantics, for the sake of balance and because they do not deserve it.
Essentially, a conductor may choose from a body of music including classic, Romantic, impressionistic, and, for the purposes of definition, "modern" music. Perhaps the most important of these general classifications is that which embodies the music (loosely called "modern"), which has been written in the last five years.
Once that has been played, however, there must be a certain semblance of balance. A given proportion of the remaining time should be devoted to works of classical importance. That which is left must be divided among the Romantics and the impressionists--carefully. The Romantic school stretches from middle Beethoven...
Therefore, extreme care must be used in choosing programs from the Romantic school. This year, we have heard Berlioz and romantic Beethoven, then Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, and Sibelius. This week we shall hear Tchaikovsky. The choice here appears quite unfortunate. Perhaps this will be remedied later. But not even the...