Word: symphonicment
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Such libidinal outpourings are not just the preserve of the British. Harvard students possess a peculiarly distorted view of European culture, feeling obliged to humble themselves before centuries of grand symphonic and literary traditions. In fact, French TV offers great disvalue for money: by eight o'clock, most shows or...
. Literature and Arts B-64, "The Symphonic Century: Orchestral Music from 1820 to 1914," in the spring on Mon., Wed., Fri, at 10 a.m.
. Literature and Arts B-64, "The Symphonic Century: Orchestral Music from 1820 to 1914," in the spring on Mon., Wed., Fri, at 10 a.m.
The lyrical cantata is an elegant corrective to the image of Haydn as the creator solely of grand tableaux, whether symphonic or choral. It is a masterpiece in minature (it only lasts, on this recording, 20 minutes and 14 seconds). The characterization found in the arias of Adam and Eve...
3. SHOSTAKOVICH: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS. The Manhattan String Quartet (ESS.A.Y). In the 16 years since his death, Shostakovich's reputation has soared, partly on the strength of these 15 brillant quartets: personal, searingly intimate utterances that represent the flip side of the composer's symphonic-apparatchik persona. The Manhattanites, playing...