Word: lyrical
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...slipped knee cartilage, carried off the part with a brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, an elaborately praised production that will give...
Dwarfs & Princelings. In Madrid his colors gradually brightened, but the lyric realism remained. While Rubens, who spent nine months at the Spanish court, tried to puff up his noble and royal subjects by surrounding them with allegorical figures, Velásquez painted them exactly as they were. His figures stand out against subdued or neutral backgrounds, but whether dwarf or princeling or court jester, they are full-fledged individuals, painted without adornment and without malice...
...times deeply reverent (in the manner of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites), at times mischievous and almost jazzy. Among its memorable moments: the opening of the second section, "Laudamus Te," with the dissonant cry of French horns followed by the syncopated chanting of the chorus; the movingly lyric third section with its bell-like soprano solo. "Domine Deus"; the quietly majestic ending in a mood of "pity and peace...
...children's chorus, to be performed at the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Both will be "completely, completely, completely different" from what he has done before. "Every age of man has its music," says Composer Poulenc. "Now that I am 62, my music is very lyric and tragic-it is my maturity...
...suicidal sacrifice. In Zillig's treatment, the penguins enter the story as a kind of Greek chorus, representing hostile nature, and commenting with pitilessly unemotional detachment on the explorers' plight. Zillig's dissonant score proved to be as stark as the setting, with rare lyric interludes when Oates (Baritone Martin Schmidt) realizes what he must...