| 单词 | grand ole opry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGrand Ole Opry 2. In full Grand Ole Opry. A regular concert of country music broadcast from c1940 as a radio (and subsequently as a television) programme, from Nashville, Tennessee; the venue where this concert is held; the type of music characteristic of this programme.Grand Ole Opry is a proprietary name. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of Philharmonic concert1740 benefit-concert1759 chamber concert1760 recital1762 Dutch concert1774 concert performance1777 philharmonica1796 musical soirée1821 sacred concert1832 soirée musicale1836 promenade concert1839 pianoforte recital1840 ballad concert1855 piano recital1855 Monday pop1862 Pop1862 promenade1864 popular1865 Schubertiad1869 recitative1873 organ recital1877 pop concert1880 smoker1887 smoke concert1888 café concert1891 prom1902 smoke-ho1918 smoking-concert1934 hootenanny1940 opry1940 Liederabend1958 1940 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. x7/4 Although the ‘Grand Ole Opry’ doesn't begin until 8 o'clock, by early evening people are already entering the town by foot, by horse, by cars and trucks. 1950 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Apr. 723/1 WSM, Incorporated, Nashville, Tenn. Grand Ole Opry. For radio program broadcasting services. 1957 Time 15 Apr. 49/1 Donegan..often..sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. 1968 Rolling Stone 24 Aug. 17/3 Roy Acuff tried unsuccessfully to give the audience a taste of Grand Ole Opry. He was too corny for most people's taste. 1976 Time 27 Sept. 98/1 For the mass market, cruder Southern products flooded the land: hillbilly music, gospel music, the Grand Ole Opry. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1060/2 The Opry remains country music's most enduring institution. 2003 Rolling Stone 11 Dec. 152/6 Over guitars that owe more to the Stones than to the Opry, she uses country to tell a story about the rootlessness of American life. < as lemmas |
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