Word: lyrically
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...magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses a lyric brush to paint not the dramatic but the tender side of life...
...Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The lyrics of the Champagne Song come out "Then Up with the Wine," and the veryprecise "Meinherr marquis" is translated "Look Me Over Once." Both the alternate Metropolitan Opera translation and the new Sadler's Wells translation by Christopher Hassell are preferable to the Dietz translation, and it is this fault that most...
Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited...
...mink cape and a couple of purses, while singing Packin' Up (for a trip to the "Great Beyond"). Singer Marion Williams was remarkable not only for her display of a gold tooth embellished with a star, but also for her voice-supple, easy-ranging and capable of lyric flights and hallelujah shouts of shattering force. Singer Williams and the other members of her Stars of Faith group are riding comfortably on a trend that could change the face of U.S. pop music: the commercialization of the gospel song...
Judith G. Kirshner '62 has been awarded the John Osborne Sargent prize, $200, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace...