Burlesque/burlesque in Music

Famous quotes containing the words burlesque and/or music:

    “Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of the fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “The music in my heart I bore,
    Long after it was heard no more.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)