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Word: vuol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Venetian blinds! You can't. When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Venetian-Blind Music | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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