Word: sensuousness
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...Rome and the Pines of Rome. When he started this famed cycle (1916) Respighi had a sure-fire formula fixed in his head. He would do a musical baedeker with gay, faintly comic descriptions, the kind of thing the Russians had taught him to write. He would write dreamy, sensuous interludes, great, glittering climaxes...
...which involved "the most racking pains . . . a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horor of spirit"; but such a lusty wheezing and blowing as Mr. March makes you have never heard since you played locomotive on the nursery floor. Mr. Hyde is conceived here as a playfully sensuous figure rather than as a really sinister one. He bounds about in his new-found freedom like an overgrown brownie or a slightly cretinous baboon. Stevenson made it clear that "Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil...
Marlene, exquisitely sensuous in her black-plumed sophistication, plays Shanghai Lily to the distraction of every male. Particularly furious is the storm roused in the brave English breast of her old love, Captain Harvey, played by Clive Brook, surgeon in the service of Her Majesty. The action revolves around this pair, together with the machinations of the somewhat too facile and too evil Mr. Chang, who is none other than the inevitable Warner Oland, again gone Oriental. Shanghai Lily demands the faith of Harvey and the picture ends as she is getting it in such a fashion as to leave...
Composition led Violinist Loeffler to relinquish the routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...
Wagner's Tannhäuser-Overture and Venusberg Music (Victor, 3 records, $6.50). Called the "Paris Version" because in 1861 Wagner added a bacchanale before taking Tannhäuser to the French capital for the pleasure of Princess Metternich, this is sensuous, stupendous Wagner...