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Indeed, "The Romantic Hours" has its passionate opponents.
Nikolai Andreyev's landscapes emerge from the romantic hours of dawn and twilight or the moments before a storm; Grinberg's are suffused with calm.
Most express their gratitude, and more than a few have proposed liaisons or marriage -- particularly after episodes of "The Romantic Hours" focused on her favorite 19th-century musicians and their famously complex and tortured love lives.
Things that are meditatively classified as "delicious" include "restlessness," the fullness of some décolletage, a fraught exchange, a few romantic hours and, perhaps most oddly, the "lucid vapor" over the Thames.
These things should not come as a surprise to loyal fans of "The Romantic Hours," an aggressively unironic weekly radio program created and presided over by Ms. Golabek that combines classical music and the written word.
"The Romantic Hours" is financed by Steinway (Ms. Golabek, an accomplished concert pianist, plays Steinways and does promotional work for the company) and the XM Satellite Radio service, which runs the show on one of its classical channels.
"The Romantic Hours" also broadcasts episodes arranged around themes like the American Civil War (excerpts from letters, to home and to the front, with musical selections from Ives, Schuman and Thomson), the life of Oscar Wilde (his writings with works by Chopin, Fauré, Shostakovich) and ancient Egyptian poetry (Verdi, Satie, Ravel).
Hugo Ortega of GottaBeMobile.com spent 60 sensuous and romantic hours with the HTC Shift recently and ended up describing the device as "one of the BEST Ultra Mobile PC I have ever had the pleasure of spending time with.
When I told this wonderful woman about it, she immediately took me into the bedroom for a three-hour romantic interlude.
