Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action, which may be greater than ours, less, or roughly the same." They theory of symbols works on the basic principle of "polysemous meaning" in works. The theory of myths expands on Frye's basic premise in Fearful Symmetry. And generic criticism (using terms like drama, epic. and lyric) explains works in the context of "conditions established between the poet and his public," how literary works "are ideally presented...
...Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...
...boldest of contemporary film makers. He fears nothing, including being bad, and he has often been. He is bad occasionally here, but it does not matter, finally. His unceasing visual imagination gives the movie an exhilarating boldness, a rush of real excitement. Tommy stirs a memory of a lyric from an old Jerry Lee Lewis song: it shakes your nerves and it rattles your brain...
...Bicentennial should be brighter, and it will certainly be native. Only a handful of European composers have been commissioned to write anniversary pieces. Most notable among them: Poland's Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants and more money to come...
...Chang under the clear direction of Dr. Yannatos, began the program with a mediocre work of their won--Men and Mountains by Carl Ruggles. His works get played when patriotic programmers want to include something distinctively American. But even a Blake reference in the title and occasional moments of lyric beauty in the second movement cannot salvage this work. Fortunately it is short and gave the orchestra a chance to warm up and demonstrate its find symphonic sound...