Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanley Kunitz, one of the finest lyric poets of our time, introduced himself quietly as if to establish not only his own identity but his separateness. First he read one of his own poems. "The Illumination," and immediately I was aware of the music of poetry, a music not heard all evening. Kunitz appeared very relaxed as he switched microphones to read one of his "translation adaptations" of Yevtushenko, "An Attempt at Blasphemy." The poem, he explained before reading it, "has more of a witty, metaphysical turn than most of Yevtushenko's poems." The angelic choir crooned in with race...
...show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within the union, was narrowly re-elected to the committee by a single vote-and only because some...
...totes Stella off on one of those lyric holidays by a deserted strand that have been a staple of English films since Room at the Top. This obviously calls for serious measures from Zee. Not even a ritual slitting of her wrists in the bathtub has any appreciable effect. With a gut instinct for elementary Freudian geometry (so thoughtfully supplied by Scenarist Edna O'Brien) Zee sets out to bed Stella herself and play out the triangle of X Y & Zee to its conclusion...
MASSENET: MANON, 4 LPs; DONIZETTI: LUCIA Dl LAMMERMOOR, 3 LPs (both ABC). When operatic tastes are weighed, the soprano who tips the scales-and the trills and roulades and fioritura-in favor of the French lyric and Italian bel canto repertories is Beverly Sills, here in two exemplary roles...
...least a dozen excellent sopranos have been compared with Callas since she departed the lyric stage. Beverly Sills possibly comes the closest, but she still has a long...