Word: vandeleur
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...purity of tone," and an uncle who played the ophicleide, a giant brass bugle. Shaw himself started training to become an operatic baritone, changed his mind, and at 20 began ghosting musical criticism for a London weekly, The Hornet, in conspiracy with his mother's voice teacher named Vandeleur Lee. While Lee posed as the magazine's critic, young Bernard wrote the notices. After a year on The Hornet, Shaw retired from criticism for seven years. Soon after his return, he wrote for London's The Star under his famous pseudonym Corno di Bassetto, and later...
Even in his apprentice, Vandeleur Lee days, Shaw was far ahead of the informed opinion of his time. He was an early booster of Wagner, regarded Mozart as the greatest of composers at a time when he was not sufficiently appreciated, insisted that Bach's music belonged not to the past but to the future. British music of the 19th century was to Shaw simply "a little Mozart and water," and he periodically attacked "the absurdity of being the only music-patronizing nation in the world which systematically tolerates opera delivered in a foreign tongue." The composer he most...
...Modern Discovery" is an excellent character study of one Vandeleur, a cultivated man and an artist of thirty-five whose chief idiosyncracy-and a pardonable one-is a passionate love for the college surroundings and conditions of life...
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