classicism

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Beethoven’s extremes — the consummate Classicism of the First, and the controlled excess of the Ninth — were absorbing but imperfect in this reading.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Classicism doesn’t generate much excitement these days, even though there is plenty of barbarism to go around, but the concise and revealing Getty show digs deep.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Bax, well known to New York audiences in chamber music over the past decade, started with a tone of pristine Classicism that swiftly dissolved into washes of dreamier mistiness, without ever losing clarity.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

Rivera’s, executed at about 16, shows the armless sculpture lying on its back on the ground — European Classicism toppled.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2016

Classicism in literature was dead, having weighed like an incubus upon the fancy and fresh life of many generations.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther