Usage examples (9)

• Any commercial music was the opiate of the masses, as Marc Blitzstein showed in his parody pop tunes "Croon Spoon" and "Honolulu," in The Cradle Will Rock (1937).
• In the early years of the Depression the Composers 'Collective, a circle that included Blitzstein and Aaron Copland, tried to develop an alternative music for the masses.
• This is very much the antidote to the glossy American musical from Blitzstein, the man who would go on to Broadway success with his adaptation of Weill and Brecht's...
• Blitzstein, and Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal - the sort of characters who made Tony Soprano look like Mother Theresa.