Word: demoniacal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...every one of the Mozart E-flat? Is it because classical music is comparatively quiet and unexciting that it is so neglected? The E-flat symphony is, in my opinion at least, a greater masterpiece than the Pathetique. Into its simplicity of form is poured a poignancy, a demoniac violence every bit as powerful as that of the other. Rarely played, the E-flat is treated lavishly compared to most eighteenth-century music; this last week-end it received, by chance, performances both in symphony Hall land in the NBC studies...
Stressing the fact that "we are living through a transition period when blind forces are smashing the old patterns." Hopper pointed out our responsibility to the moral and economic cause of evolution in Europe against "demoniac revolutionary nihilism." It is the task of the United States to work with the combination of powers most likely to secure a permanent peace, according to Hopper...