Word: stokowskian
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...Penguin's father here). Burton inverts pictures and fictions, and makes it seem as if he has just turned them right side up. In Batman Returns, everything is familiarly topsy-turvy. Black is good -- Batman, of course -- and white or bright is bad. Max, the rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls him "Anti Claus." The Penguin's sewer-level lair, Arctic World, is a garishly colorful place; it has ice-white walls, chartreuse toxic bile and a giant yellow ducky that serves as the Penguin...
...Collegium's two remaining concerts (November 5, all-Vivaldi, and November 19, late 18th-Century composers) should prove interesting, not only because of the music itself but also as a further experience in the battle between euphony and authenticity. There is probably some satisfactory middle ground between Stokowskian lushness and Baroque severity, but so far this has not been attained...
Although Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice was not written as Christmas music, its buoyancy makes it a fitting holiday release. It is the sort of stuff Leopold Stokowski is good at, and his performance is full of Stokowskian gorgeousness, brilliance, and color, which at the same time sacrifices a good deal of Dukas's subtlety. Refreshing are the excerpts from Hansel and Gretel, that most magic of all operas. Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra play with feeling most of your favorites, including the dream music, on Columbia Records, and if I were to get any synthesis of any opera...
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