Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn's time." He also transferred to his wife the lyric soprano aria of the Genius who leads Orfeo down to Hell in search of his beloved. There was good musical reason for that too. "The opera is lopsided," explains Sutherland, who will sing in Orfeo six times at this summer's Edinburgh Festival. "If I didn't come...
...Francisco) to quit playing songs that "offend public morals, dignity or taste." And just to make sure that certain kinds of recorded numbers would not get past his disk jockeys, McLendon announced that henceforth his stations would refuse any new record release "unless it is accompanied by a valid lyric sheet...
...Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics. The book, as Harper & Row puts it, is a story told "with a rare lyric intensity by a Turgenev heroine." Except that Turgenev never made $1,000,000 or more on a single book, no matter how lyrically intense...
Joel DeMott directed and designed the show. She did an excellent job with the blocking and set, thereby proving once again that the Ex need not be used solely for Beckett. But Miss DeMott (following Strindberg) failed to decide whether the play was to be treated as camp or lyric poetry, and in the confusion she staged something that was often silly...
...periodically unfortunate intonation of the orchestra, occasional four-squareness, and general loss of intensity and concentration toward the end were somewhat disappointing. None of these faults, however, was outstanding enough to weaken the overall effect of the performance. This was a young Requiem-powerful, muscular, intelligent, lyric. In marble St. Paul's the result was overwhelming. Those who did not hear this particular Requiem are not likely to hear its kind in the near future, even on the best of stereo systems...