Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colum has a romantic background, a background that is reflected in every word he writes, in the lilt of his voice, in the motions of his hands, in the occasionally fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there...
...mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin to the Homeric. And throughout there is a vividness of picture and choice of words...
...method is to dissolve the mystery of grand opera, to destroy the traditions that it is only for the highly cultured: to exploit the human pull which lived in the hearts of great composers and which now lives in their compositions. Jazz we hear and forget. Its lilt wears for the moment and then fades. But even the most untutored in music can retain the memories which a great composer's idea inculcates into a musical drama...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...
...poems on Helen of Troy (to whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...