Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet...
...base of operations is the Munich Opera, where she will shortly begin rehearsals for the world premiere of Carl Orff's Prometheus. U.S. audiences, who know her so far only by reputation and a few recordings, will get to see and hear her for themselves, at the Chicago Lyric Opera this year and at the Metropolitan...
...early one morning, look for my clothes home. To the gospel sound of Clara Ward she adds the jazz feeling of the late Dinah Washington, lays it over a pounding rhythm-and-blues beat, and seals it with her own gritty, down-home conviction. "Yeah!" she shouts in mid-lyric. "I believe...
Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger...
...painter's drips, splashes and violent brush marks. The "color field" painters of the 1950s, led by the late Morris Louis, eliminated the mark of the painter's hand, but their veils of color floating within the rectangle of a canvas aimed at evoking a haunting, lyric sense of other-worldly beauty. A Stella painting, on the other hand, locks form and content together, forcing the viewer to accept it as an object unique unto itself. To viewers who find the result boring or merely decorative, the artist replies, "My eyes and my emotions tell me something different...