Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athenians and Londoners danced a new step last week, the "Tuscana." C. L. ("Lambeth Walk") Heimann and Lyric Writer Eric Maschwitz created the new "Wop Trot," named for the "Wolves of Tuscany." Basic movement: one step forward, two back. Chorus...
...piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which the LT. S. lyric theatre had been taking a nice...
Painters Merida and Cantú have done little fresco painting, but they are loud in their praise of Compatriots Rivera, Orozco, Siquieros. Says Merida: "They are three great painters, but the plastic expression of each is different. Diego makes politics in his pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although...
When the curtain of the Met goes up on a newly designed production-as it does three or four times every year-seasoned critics, subscribers and standees are prepared for anything, even the worst. The Met is one of the last great lyric stages in the world, but opera at the Met has a way of prattfalling between two stools. The Met guards the grand operatic tradition, but it also yearns to tickle its public. The Daughter of the Regiment is a tickler...
...spare tools. Joyce himself has scarcely greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...