Word: impressionistic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
Debussy: La Mer (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: six sides). Record of the month. Koussevitzky's Bostonians make every salty splash of Impressionist Debussy's great seascape glisten in hazy sunshine. Magnificently recorded...
Debussy: Nocturnes (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). First complete U. S. recording of a shimmering Impressionist masterpiece. Conductor Stokowski gives it more fire than shimmer. Victor sound engineers record it magnificently...