Word: lyrical
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...effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
Tales of Rigo. Apparently, the astral body of Drift, a play that lived a short life last season at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is up and doing. It now ambles on the stage of the Lyric in a stagnant incarnation, punctuated at grateful intervals by tolerable, vaguely familiar songs. The plot concerns one Rigo, polychromatic gypsy musician, onetime darling of society, now embittered enemy. His melodious followers ramble the forests in simple glee, vocalizing over three stumps, serenading the birds, celebrating Zita, Rigo's elfin granddaughter. She falls in love with a society man. There is mystery about Zita...
Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Lyric Suite Grieg Shepherd Boy--Nocturne--March of the Gnomes "Benvenuto Cellini," Overture Berlioz "Don Juan," Symphonic Poem Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss "Dance of Salome" from "Salome" Strauss A Comedy Overture on Negro Themes Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens
...Wagner, there was Bach?sacred solos and secular cantatas alike, including the drollery of "Aeolus Appeased" which, after writing it to entertain an honored old professor, Bach changed but slightly to celebrate a Polish king. Cincinnati also heard for the first time "La Primavera" of Ottorino Respighi, dulcet lyric on the text: "God is a Child, for His countenance is frank and truthful like that of a man filled with love...
...later married Mrs. Leonard M. Thomas (pen name: "Michael Strange"). ?Lyric written by James John Walker, onetime Greenwich village boy, now Mayor of New York City...