Word: lyrically
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...road. Too broke to get back to New York, she holed up in Chicago. She kept alive with odd jobs, and began to read books, something she had been forbidden as a child. "I leaped into Kafka, Joyce, T.S. Eliot," she recalls. "I began writing short stories, song lyrics." These led to a job writing movie lyrics for MGM in Hollywood, and soon after that she began her successful collaboration with Andre. "But all this time," she says, "I felt this terrible guilt because I hadn't become a star. I called my father to tell him about...
Beverly does not have the powerful top notes for roles like Tosca or Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and particularly not for Wagnerian roles like Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung. But she is ideally suited to bel canto, and to the French lyric romanticism of Gounod and Massenet. In these areas she is unbeatable, and even among the diverse other sopranos in this age of great sopranos?Birgit Nilsson, Sutherland, Price, Marilyn Horne, Monserrat Caballé?she more than holds...
...free-wheeling styles of many of the pieces in the special poetry supplement of local poets don't quite make up for their generally skimpy substance. Louis Reed's rock-lyric, "Sweet Jane," begs for music, but it might not bear too many listenings. Elizabeth Fenton's "More Rain", on the other hand, is a list of the conditions of a strained relationship that builds an undertone of anguish by effectively calculated repetition and an ironic sense of restraint...
...trying to figure out whether you're acting more like Tom Ewell in "The Seven-Year Itch" or is it Tony Curtis in "Some Like It Hot," Liz in the infamous white hotpants she wore to last spring's Boston Book Fair, making like June in the Rodgers & Hammerstein lyric...
...form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins as a simple...