| 释义 |
opry|ˈɒprɪ|
representation of a U.S. dial. pronunc. of opera; also attrib. Grand Ole Opry: a concert of country music broadcast on radio from Nashville, Tennessee; the type of music performed there.
Grand Ole Opry is registered as a proprietary name in the U.S.
1914R. Grau Theatre of Science 23 The local manager could not see any future in exhibiting films, so he went back to the town where he had his ‘op'ry house’. 1950Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Apr. 723/1 WSM, Incorporated, Nashville, Tenn. Grand Ole Opry. For radio program broadcasting services. 1957Time 15 Apr. 49/1 Donegan..often..sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 331/3 r.p.m. played at 78. 1961A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business 64 Opry,..opera. 1968Rolling 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. 1974New Yorker 6 May 46/1 They asked me where I was going. I said, To Nashville to see the Grand Ole Opry. Friday is the last show..before the Opry moves out to Opryland U.S.A. 1976Time 27 Sept. 98/1 For the mass market, cruder Southern products flooded the land: hillbilly music, gospel music, the Grand Ole Opry. 1977Parade (Washington Post) 9 Oct. 12/3 Grand Ole Opry began in 1925 almost incidentally, when Nashville station WSM put on an hour-long program featuring a country fiddler named Uncle Jimmy Thompson. The show happened to follow a broadcast of Walter Damrosch's music appreciation hour from New York, so announcer George D. Hay started out by saying: ‘For the past hour you've listened to grand opera, now you're going to hear some grand ole opry.’ |