Word: vulgarizer
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...This is particularly true of his chamber music, classical forms to be executed by small combinations of stringed instruments and piano. Four or five solemn-visaged performers huddle their chairs into a little group in the centre of a platform and discourse with sweetness and subtlety-without the dramatic, vulgar crash of percussion units, without the resounding blare of brazen-throated trumpets and trombones. Such music demands a cult-and a temple...
...that an Art exhibit was in progress-for each year Art comes to Lyme with the goldenrod. This year, the exhibition satisfied all demands by being up to the standard of those in the past; to have made it noticeably better would have seemed to the natives a bit vulgar; to have made it worse would have been impossible-for artistic Lyme...
...facetious pamphlet, for such it was, was for the most part untranslatable, being written in Parisian slang and filled with allusions "irreverent, recondite and even vulgar...
...high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire Infantry. He was returning to the old camp along...
...approach of Spring, and the happy dispersion of musico-financial troubles (TIME, April 21, May 12, 19) seem to have infected Conductor Stokowski with more than a mild dash of gaiety, boisterousness, even vulgar abandon. Stokowski has started a hilarious military band in Philadelphia...