Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day's Parsifal was orchestrally poignant, lyric. Slower than most was Toscanini's tender reading. A magnificent Gurnemanz (Basso Ivar Andresen of the Metropolitan), a poetic Parsifal (Tenor Fritz Wolff), a comely but vocally insecure Kundry (Soprano Elisabeth Ohms), sang their way through Wagner's leisurely, sometimes philosophically turbid drama. The sets "dated from 1882 and looked...
...singer. He planned to sing there as usual this year. But he asked for more than $1,000 a night, special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length of time to be boycotted...
...each & every lyric, tune and illustration approved by Pianist Maier, Sons Bob & Ted received 5¢. Pianist Maier rejected many, accepted and harmonized 20 for four-hand piano performance. Unpre tentious, graphically illustrated with squiggly pen & ink drawings by the two prodigies, the songs are short, pointed...
...This lyric was personally composed by Commander Locker-Lampson, son of English poet Frederick Locker, maternal grandson of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., a Vermonter, said to have been the first American ever made a British baronet. The music for Commander Locker-Lampson's patriotic song March On! is from the British Gaumont talking film High Treason...
...editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book's scheme is simple, must have been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged, the prose...