Word: lyrical
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Archibald MacLeish: His "delicate lyric gift" resulted in smoothly beautiful and simple early poems. But he soon "began to make overpowering demands upon this limited and specific talent . . . much of MacLeish's later work is the public speech of an authoritative public figure who is controlling the responses of a mass audience ... It is almost more conscious of the impressiveness of what it says than of what it says...
This year Layton is blessed with orchestra members who can handle solos unusually well. Anthony Greenwald, trumpet, carried the lyric line without faltering in the Ives. Pam Campbell, flute, Randy Havilind, bassoon, and Chris Atwood, bass, put over the jokes in and Haydn's symphony, while, as already noted, Tison Street and Marshall Brown delivered the concertanto solos...
...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...