Word: sentimentale
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45 Burps. Simon also squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 '...
Every Girl Wants One. The next Sunday, both papers offered a second round of revelations. The Times provided a highly detailed, perceptively written account of how Philby got started in espionage. The Observer ran some sentimental recollections of Eleanor's-just the thing to make every girl wish she...
Yannatos and his orchestra performed the symphony without condescension. By treating it as legitimate music, giving it as much attention and respect as the other two works, they saved the Tschaikovsky from the disaster that is inevitable when it is played as camp. The famous Allegro con grazia in five...
There was throughout such splendid coordination between James Burt's stage direction and Vincent Canzoneri's work with the traditionally polished orchestra that any attempt to resolve the two and pick at each must be regarded as undialectic and moreover silly. The old criticism that Sullivan's score is a...
For the nostalgic, there is a large sampling of dusky, sentimental ballads. "I give the people what I know they like and what they expect," she says.