HATS off, gentlemen, to American Ballet Theater for a heroic season.
Florestan and I were seated at the piano … With the words, 'Hats off gentlemen, a genius!' Eusebius spread out before us a piece of music".
Then he wrote: "The gloves are coming off gentlemen regarding these detainees, Col. Boltz has made it clear that we want these individuals broken".
After examining a published edition of the variations in 1831, Schumann, who would become a major critic and editor of a music journal, wrote an influential review hailing Chopin with the words "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius".
When it was new in 1988, "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,"Mark Morris's full-evening Handel-oratorio dance, made me quote Schumann's line about Chopin: "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius".
"Knowing the economic situation of the country, and all the talk about Greece's overspending for the last 20 years, one feels like saying 'hold off, gentlemen, with the criticism'," he said.
At the end of 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the Op. 2 Variations in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (his first published article on music), declared: "Hats off, gentlemen!
An interrogator in Iraq, on receiving a memo instructing that "The gloves are coming off gentlemen regarding these detainees," fired back a message saying, simply, "As for 'the gloves need to come off,' we need to take a deep breath and remember who we are".
The seafarers' social class, well-off gentlemen, was associated with this richer architecture around Praça Velha square.
