Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warehouse. Two nights later, Met-goers saw the first performance in 19 years of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. In front of new sets that were hardly more imaginative than any of the Met's old ones, great Lyric Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Soprano Dorothy Kirsten sang like opera stars, but acted in the old arm-flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong...
There are also two poems. One, fashionably devoted to the theme of postwar disillusionment, is called "Faust 1945" and reiterates the tired soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey...
...only one. Lenore Lonergan, another featured player in the show, and an expert comedienne, has no volume for singing, much less a voice, and she, too, is given songs to sing. Assuming that the lyric writer (Johnny Mercer, in the current case) has something to say, it would be good to hear what it is. Miss Lonergan can not be dismissed, however, as a total failure. In fact, in her non-musical moments she contributes more to the comedy than any of the other performers...
...last and his greatest book, is not likely to make Hesse popular with them, but it will at least serve to give them an idea of what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against German militarism. He traveled in India, wrote a volume on Hindu mysticism in his middle years, published a Dostoevskian psychological...
...aware of the gifts he did not have; he once said he would have given everything he had done for the spontaneous lyric quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...