Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great moment of the opera is unquestionably the superb quartet which comes near the end, and is everything an operatic ensemble ought to be. Technically, it is well constructed, while the hilarity of the situation combines with the very lyric beauty of the music to produce a kind of exhilaration which can only come in a climax to an extremely fine set piece...
...Philadelphia Museum. This week the Los Angeles County Museum had something worth crowing about. Up on the wall of its softly lighted Spanish Gallery went a handsome new acquisition with a resounding title and glamorous history: Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz as Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry by Spain's famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (see color page). For generations in the hands of the Dukes of Wellington, the Muse is also a handsome tribute to the scholarship, energy and tenacity of bustling 41-year-old Richard Fargo Brown, who in three years as head...
...first original play of its five years of faithful adaptations, the Peabody-Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame rose to a level rare in the theater and rarer yet on TV. The drama: Little Moon of Alban, a lyric consecration of love and faith by young (30) Playwright-Actor James Costigan...
...best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...addition he has not paced the show very well. The wedding scene seems rushed and clumsy, the lyric recitation forced, pompous and overlong. His blocking, i.e., plotting of the actors' movements, seems often unhappy and imperceptive, but he suffers from the disadvantage of a very small acting area...