Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the orchestra, both hornists and bassoonists had a bad night; the strings had trouble with the intricate rhythms and high harmonics; and concertmistress Marilyn Malpass muffed her solo badly. Nevertheless, ensemble was generally excellent in the wind and (hired) percussion sections and the total effect of the performance was...
The composer's romantic temperament asserted itself more freely in the other works on the program, which he also conducted. His Mozart Symphony No. 40 exulted with bravura, mystery, and finesse, focusing on large forms, rather than individual phrases. The mood was thus more consistent, but some of the lines...
Cropsey, a Dutch Reformed elder of Dutch-French parentage and a staunch romantic idealizer of nature, was born on Staten Island and trained as an architect in New York City. He was not an artist of wide-ranging scope, but he excelled at one uniquely American subject: the blazing radiance...
In an extremely well-cast play, Dennis King as Disraeli is debonair and mellifluent, a prince of players who conveys the facility of the successful novelist as well as the astuteness of the statesman. James Cossins' Gladstone is a subtle creation, the portrait of an un compromising man doing...
Hanson was content to make the case for conservatism in his own work. In keeping with his belief that the simple major chord "is to music what such words as God and love are to language," he stayed mostly within the bounds of traditional harmony, building up solid forms that...