Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Cole Porter, he could dip into a source play, borrow a line and spin a lyric. In Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the heroine wonders aloud what it would be like "if I loved you," then pauses to reflect silently. Adapting the play as Carousel, Hammerstein and Rodgers filled the pause with unadorned grace: If I loved...
...musician's collaborator, he was himself alive with music, using dummy tunes of his own invention to coax his words along toward a completed lyric. Hearing some of these mock-up melodies, Richard Rodgers staggered backward in amused horror, but he stood in awe, too, of Oscar Hammerstein's enduring awareness of the music all around him, from the observation in Oklahoma! that "all the sounds of the earth are like music," through The King and I's invitation to the dance-"On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?"-and ultimately to the exultation that...
...communes and the tremendous forward leaps," he urged his colleagues. "Unmask U.S. imperialism, which is feigning peace while intensifying war preparations." Production has been good, he said-almost twice as many works had been published in China in the past four years as in the previous six, including such lyric flights...
Novelist Styron's first book, Lie Down in Darkness, was a Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher story about a decaying Southern family, and its lyric, doom-haunted evocation of the Southern landscape made the author the bright hope of U.S. fiction among some critics, as well as the hero of a lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic...
Died. Lucrezia Bori, 72, Spanish-born (as Lucrecia Borjay Gonzalez de Riancho) Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano who began her Met career singing with Caruso, gave tender feeling to the roles of Mimi and Violetta, was a Met favorite for 24 years before retiring in 1936 while at her peak ("I want to finish while I am still at my best"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...