Word: lyrical
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...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...
...cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with all its appropriate plaintiveness. In other words, they both know how to read, and how to read Thomas...
...Along with a clear, flexible lyric voice, Soprano D'Angelo displayed impeccable pitch, remarkably even control, and all the agility necessary for the coloratura turns and trills of her role. Moreover, with the aid of a face and figure far more appealing than operagoers are accustomed to, she brought rare poignancy and passion to the incredibly motivated role of Gilda (although the Duke has just ditched her for another girl, she sacrifices her life to save his from the hired bandit, Sparafucile). The Met audience, taken by surprise, gave Soprano D'Angelo several ovations, most notably after...
...that this great Swedish tenor died when he still was near the top of his form. His battle of high notes with Turandot at the end of their last duet (itself the one truly exciting moment in Alfano's scoring) is a most extraordinary display of vocal power. His lyric rendition of much of the first act music makes his Calaf more sympathetic and more credible than any other I have heard...