Word: liltless
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...salute to Dallas; the gay lesson-in-English of Happy to Make Your Acquaintance; the Verdi-gurdy high spirits of Abbondanza and Sposalizio. But there is also the lyrical How Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness, and the quick lilt of Young People (with its liltless follow-up line about the no-longer-young). Only in operatic passages that are datedly lush or flamboyantly melodramatic, or in the winegrower's inept vocalizings to his dead mother, does the generally vintage music turn to ordinary California, indeed even Hollywood, wine...
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