Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oedipus Rex. Sophocles' classic. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston, Boston, through November 13. Performances Friday-Sunday, 8 p.m., Sunday matinee...
...that same degenerate raspiness, hoarsely trailing off at the end of a line, or scream-whispering into a mike. In Springsteen's first two albums. Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, his voice jibed perfectly with his driving music and his lyric description of growing up in New Jersey. But his new album, Born To Run, is inconsistent; Springsteen's voice powers through too much slickness and often verges on incongruity...
...blunt truth is that the Beatles were inventive harmonically and had two major rock poets (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) in their number; no lyric like She's Leaving Home or With a Little Help from My Friends or Eleanor Rigby is within the Rollers' capacity, range or competence. In their favor is the fact that the young have been waiting for new rock heroes for years. Maybe-just maybe-the Rollers are next...
...Allen's Monisha and Willard White's Ned, not to mention Schuller's buoyant conducting. But it is Carmen Balthrop as Treemonisha who is easily the hit of the evening. Winner of the 1975 Metropolitan Opera auditions, she still moves too cautiously on stage, but her lyric soprano voice has an appealing woodwind glow and she uses it with authority...
...into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word writers, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, to fit it out with a lyric." They booked an orchestra, and within a few weeks If I Close My Eyes, the movie's single, was ready for release...