Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan's smart La Martinique, he was snatched up by Moss Hart for Lady in the Dark. In Lady he stopped the show cold with Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tchaikovsky-rattling off the names of 54 Russian composers in about 40 seconds...
...left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...
...Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...
Marriage has worked no noticeable change in Cinemactress Durbin. She is a big girl now and, while her speaking voice is often harsh and edgy, her rich lyric soprano is mature enough to entrance Father Laughton, who ends by cutting conga capers with her in a nightclub (see cut p. 94). Her acting, still pleasantly young-girlish, could stand a shot of dramatic voltage...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy (Album M-815). The Double Concerto was Brahms' last essay in the symphonic form. After finishing it he turned back finally and for good to the smaller forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral medium. Even more than in his other works, one senses a continued striving to meet the demands of the symphonic...