Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual Maggio Musicale, The Merchant was a taut and impressive work. Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...
...Judith G. Kirshner '62 has received the John Osborne Sargent Award for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace...
...leisure," writes Critic George Steiner in The Kenyan Review. "Music today is the central fact of lay culture." While music soars, argues Steiner, language suffers, as evidenced by advertising lingo, by the intrusion of science's untranslatable symbols into language and, in literature, by Hemingway's "lyric shorthand" and the inarticulateness of Arthur Miller's heroes. Says Steiner: "When one is tired, music, even difficult music, is easier to enjoy than serious literature. The new middle class in the affluent society reads little, but listens to music with a knowing delight. Where the library shelves once stood...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prise and the Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry will not be awarded this year...
...husband-and-wife team-Saxophonist Charlie Mariano and Japanese Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi-in one of the year's most successful exercises for small combo. Akiyoshi has developed into a pianist of extraordinary fire and fluency, and Mariano displays-particularly in his remarkable reading of Deep River-a warm, lyric tone that flows like honey from the horn. Nothing in the album is better than Akiyoshi's own Long Yellow Road, a wistful musical memory of the long, straight roads back home in Manchuria...