Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant-a work more notable for its vigor and blaring momentum than for charm or lyric effects. Schuman, though he is a difficult composer to classify in any specific school, is an easy composer to recognize: in his symphonies he has shown a fascination with quirky, eccentric rhythms, a love of massed, brassy sound, a powerful dramatic sense. In the Eighth, unfortunately, drama generally outweighs substance...
...Paris in 1920 when he was an impecunious young Yale graduate working out his The Beginning of Wisdom, herself an author, poet and critic, who translated the works of Andre Maurois but was best known for her 1933 collaboration with her husband on A Book of Americans, a lyric history in verse; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Stuart is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and is working towards his M.A. at Harvard this summer. His poems have been published in the anthology "Southern Poetry Today", and in "Epos," "Impetus," Half-Moon," and Lyric...
...magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses a lyric brush to paint not the dramatic but the tender side of life...
...Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The lyrics of the Champagne Song come out "Then Up with the Wine," and the veryprecise "Meinherr marquis" is translated "Look Me Over Once." Both the alternate Metropolitan Opera translation and the new Sadler's Wells translation by Christopher Hassell are preferable to the Dietz translation, and it is this fault that most...