Word: lyrically
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...Oedipus at Colouns, it was written before the other two; it is, in fact, the next-to-earliest of his surviving works. Early or not, it is a supreme master-piece, fully deserving of the first prize that it copped; and it contains a higher proportion of lyric writing than any of his other works...
There could be no complaints about sentimentality in the case of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. The original lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia, it has become the confession of a masochist: "These boots trample on everything beautiful/I live alone thanks to these boots/With these boots I stamp our love/They are taking their own revenge/I am stamping on my own happiness...
...years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn's time." He also transferred to his wife the lyric soprano aria of the Genius who leads Orfeo down to Hell in search of his beloved. There was good musical reason for that too. "The opera is lopsided," explains Sutherland, who will sing in Orfeo six times at this summer's Edinburgh Festival. "If I didn't come...
...Francisco) to quit playing songs that "offend public morals, dignity or taste." And just to make sure that certain kinds of recorded numbers would not get past his disk jockeys, McLendon announced that henceforth his stations would refuse any new record release "unless it is accompanied by a valid lyric sheet...
...Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics. The book, as Harper & Row puts it, is a story told "with a rare lyric intensity by a Turgenev heroine." Except that Turgenev never made $1,000,000 or more on a single book, no matter how lyrically intense...