Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gianni Poggi: Operatic Recital (London). A young (32) lyric tenor from La Scala shows a golden voice and a fine feeling for Italian-opera tradition in these seven selections from Il Trovatore, Manon Lescaut, Andrea Chenier, etc. Tenor Poggi is due for U.S. appearances next year...
...quick, little one!" Willy would cry, as Colette chased her pen through Claudine upon Claudine. If Colette was lazy or restive, Willy locked her in her room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...
...Guns. Both had been moderately successful songwriters individually and admirers of each other's work. Both could write both words and music. A large part of their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song...
Huber of the Lyric Theater, the Met's Baltimore home, came out flatly against the increased guarantee-no more money, he said, even if that means no more opera...
...mocking the artistic craze of the period, is usually equal to the quick-witted and congenial pace set by the authors. Though no strong voices emerged, the singing bubbles smoothly over Gilbert's patter, and the evening's few sour measures are easily obscured by the humor of the lyric or the cleverness of the stage business...