Word: iyrically
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This reaction to Lewis' song stressed his belief that affection, although mute in modern poetry, is not dead in man. "The simple wish to be alive is the inarticulate man's hope and the poet's Iyric impulse," he said...
...poet of the industrial society, Lewis said, has not achieved the "imaginative understanding" of his environment which is the basis of Iyric poetry, "The contemtemporary poet instinctively distrusts the present. Poetry," he said, "must come to terms with the urban-industrial landscape or else fade away with a long sigh of nostalgia...
...Chorus achieved a fine blend, despite a profusion of soloists. Those voices with brilliant timbres were well covered, particularly in the soft passages. The tenors as a section were both strong and Iyric, a fact that must give their conductor great satisfaction, since most directors have to settle for one extreme or the other. The bass section, however, was not up to snuff. Two or three key men seemed to be missing. In the liturgical music, the all-important low basses were just not strong enough in the full sections, and demonstrated an alarming lack of sensitivity by being...
Anne English, from the New England Conservatory, brought stature to the title role. Her big, well-disciplined voice and perfect diction made her the outstanding soloist of the evening. She sang the "Endless Pleasure," aria about the joys she expects to find in heaven as Jupiter's mistress, with Iyric fluency. The poorly danced, unimaginative ballet sequence that accompanied her, however, was distracting...
...Remembrance" imbues us with Mr. Hillyer's admirably expressed Iyric spirit of happiness...