Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dickery by Dock. Danny's repertory is filled with tongue twisters. In Lady in the Dark, his perfect diction and voice control wowed Broadway as he rattled off the names of 50 Russian composers in Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tschaikowsky, singing in 40 seconds...
Menuhin has often been accused of stylizing his performance to provide a better display of his virtuoso technique, but here no such criticism can be offered, for his presentation contains the proper lyric and melodic qualities without the affectation which detracted from his playing of the late Mozart sonatas...
...Fiorenza Quartararo a chance to rehearse Carmen with the orchestra. No critics were expected. But the New York Times's Howard Taubman dropped in. He came away singing the praises, not of Rise Stevens' Carmen, but of Fiorenza's Micaela. Wrote he: "Astonishing assurance . . . true lyric quality . . . affecting simplicity. . . . Miss Quartararo, who is also good to look at, seems to have what it takes. . . . She may be the find of the season...
Lotte Lehmann's voice is still powerful and still lyric, but she does not dread the day when she loses it: "I will not miss it a bit," says she, "of that I am quite sure. I like very much to show other sides. Oh, Gott, I have not only...
...London party last year, Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...