Word: lyrically
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...fewer than 25 new recordings by Paul Anka, Ella Fitzgerald, the Chipmunks, Crazy Otto, Guy Lombardo, et al. By Marks's own testimony, his recently released Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree figures to be another Rudolph. Why? Says Marks, who does both words and music: "The lyric is a masterpiece of writing...
...Sonata Opus 110 began auspiciously. Mr. Fischer's playing fulfilled two of Beethoven's three descriptions; it was cantabile (the melody line was beautifully brought out), it was con amabilita, yet it fell short of the molto expressive playing called for. Later the lyric and tranquil sections of the piece were handled with more feeling and fidelity to the manuscript. But the more declamatory passages suffered from excessive percussiveness, which often resulted in the submerging of the melody. Indeed, the entire first part of Mr. Fischer's recital displayed his lack of the tremendous ability required to meet the frequent...
...after intermission, with the playing of the final Sonata Opus 111, that Mr. Fischer really electrified the audience. His playing was percussive in the opening torrent of notes; he moved effectively from lyric to appassionato passages; his fingers flew over the keyboard in the long runs and octave passages. I was rather disappointed that he skipped the repeat of the first section, but one cannot expect everything; the remainder of his playing was more than satisfying. It is not easy to play the first section of Opus 111 at all, let alone well, and Mr. Fischer's excellent technique...
...modern Americans, increasingly sought and sold by Europe's private galleries and collectors, are beginning to trickle into a few big public European museums. For its first work by an American of any period, the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo last week got a wistful and lyric portrait called Albert's Son, by Andrew Wyeth, perhaps the most commercially successful of serious U.S. artists. At the other end of the artistic spectrum, the Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired a swirly...
...lyric beat, TIME Toronto Bureau Chief Kenneth Froslid, concentrating on Alan Lerner, attended 13 performances, had to explain to autograph seekers that he was not Roddy McDowall. His biggest worry came when his subject was rushed to Toronto's Wellesley Hospital with a bleeding ulcer, but the physician did grudgingly allow three visitors: Lerner's wife, his collaborator and Fros-lid. When the lyricist returned twelve days later, Froslid was alongside-car-rying the Thermos bottle full of milk. By the time Froslid had completed his comprehensive interview, Lerner quipped, "Now that you are gone...