Word: tchaikovskian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest...
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