Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHUMANN: FOUR SYMPHONIES (Columbia). In recording Schumann's symphonies as they were originally orchestrated, Leonard Bernstein has compiled a catalogue of the composer's many moods. He deals decisively with the complicated polyphonic structure that Schumann imposed upon his gentle, lyric thoughts and puts the composer-whimsical, sad, angry-across without blurring overlaps of Teutonic bravura...
...Carnegie Hall; this is a recording of that long-awaited performance. The program, which ranges from a Bach- Busoni toccata (Horowitz's good luck piece because it was the first selection on his debut program) through Chopin to Scriabin, shows a variety of technique and mood from lyric tranquillity to bravura virtuosity. The pianist is master of them all. Perhaps most beautiful is the inspired Schumann Fantasy in C Major; the final notes of the second movement float out as if played on an English horn and last unbelievably long...
SOLO MONK (Columbia). Pianist Thelonious Monk offers greater range and variety-from the simple lyric line to complex, sophisticated jazz-than any other musician playing today. I Should Care is dismembered and recomposed almost chillingly; North of Sunset comes out as old-fashioned blues. He even makes Ruby, My Dear, a song he has played for more than 30 years, sound fresh...
Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...
...book may surprise the reader who expects nothing more than a political document-it is also a work of art. Admittedly, it is not much of a novel; the form of fiction was obviously adopted as a device to protect the innocent from police reprisal. It is, however, a lyric celebration of the rights of man, a spiritual testament of depth and beauty, a cry of pain from the soul of a brave and decent man indecently abused...