Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countrymen, the Russians, have produced so much musical genius this century. It certainly is Toscanini's bad luck that his own countrymen, the Russians, have produced so much musical genius this century. It certainly is Toscanini's bad luck that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest...