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  • Immerse your ears – be they piggy or human – from the noir to the neo-Romantic, with readings from well-established wordsmiths Iain Sinclair and Mimi Khalvati, as well as burgeoning bards like Clare Best, whose collection Breastless charts her experience of mastectomy, and Philip Pollecoff, a lawyer whose lyrics span Ovaltine, acid and alimony.

    This week's new events 2011

  • American opera may be finding its voice: Often, it's a neo-Romantic, melodic treatment of a contemporary topic, famous book or movie.

    Is anybody listening? American opera faces crossroads as audiences for performing arts slide 2010

  • At the dress rehearsal for the gala screening, the montage synched up superbly to the lush, neo-Romantic score as played by the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

    'Metropolis' Now A.J. Goldmann 2010

  • At the dress rehearsal for the gala screening, the montage synched up superbly to the lush, neo-Romantic score as played by the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

    'Metropolis' Now A.J. Goldmann 2010

  • Her idiom warmed and embraced the neo-Romantic elements that distinguish it today.

    A Composer Not Afraid to Feel 2009

  • German Romantic thought sought to overcome the "human drive for fixity ... that must, finally be relinquished if man is to realize what Nietzsche, in a moment of neo-Romantic illumination, called 'the transvaluation of values,' that is, the equal and absolute value of everything" (McCort 23).

    Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007

  • Any attempt at monumental signage will only attract future archaeologists and neo-Romantic tourists and CLUI tours.

    Atomic Tourism 2007

  • Broadly speaking, Weber's philosophical worldview, if not coherent philosophy, was informed by the deep crisis of the Enlightenment project in fin-de-siècle Europe, which was characterized by the intellectual revolt against positivist reason, a celebration of subjective will and intuition, and a neo-Romantic longing for spiritual wholesomeness [Hughes 1977].

    Asthmatic 2009

  • He writes in the neo-Romantic style that has been practiced by Giancarlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Mark Adamo and Jake Heggie, among others in their own personal styles.

    DesignerBlog Will 2007

  • He later did offer a definition, however, and, somewhat surprisingly, a neo-Romantic and intentionalistic one.

    Beardsley's Aesthetics Wreen, Michael 2005

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