Word: lehar
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...Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding...
...last act, she realizes she has been acting out a fantasy, not conducting a love affair. The opera comes to a close with her wistful sigh floating high above the orchestra. Despite its frivolous trappings, La Rondine has a core of cynicism and bears about as much relation to Lehar as Ravel's fierce La Valse does to the waltzes of Johann Strauss...
Darmouth’s Alana BreMiller joins Brown’s Amy McLoughlin, the only player unanimously voted to the team, on the All-League’s blue-line. Rebecca Lehar of Colgate was named the League’s top goalie...
Corriero took the puck by herself from the upper right of the face-off circle and brought it into the middle to take a shot. Lehar turned the puck away, but the rebound went right back to Corriero, who had continued towards the net, for the finisher...
...worthy cause. What, after all, is the American musical but a transatlantic cousin of the Viennese operetta whose patrimony also includes the harmonic and rhythmic vitality of jazz? The line from Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar to Frederick Loewe and Richard Rodgers is really very short. Far from being an exotic and irrational entertainment, opera is the most vital and popular of musical forms. Is Mozart's The Magic Flute, composed in the vernacular for the Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news...