Word: lyrically
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...that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
...sing in those dusty decors," was the most glittering in history. Outside, the Republican Guard stood with sabers drawn while onstage Carmen was performed with the aid of 40 horses and a monkey. "In one swoop," said Malraux last week, "the opera recaptured its place among the great lyric theaters...
...Beethoven selection, Mozart's Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, the overture to Rossini's Barber of Seville. The orchestra negotiated all of them with every minim and crotchet in place," and with a typical air of lyric enthusiasm...
...loses pace in its final section, as the descendants of the New Englanders and their upstart adversaries seem to forget both animosities and identities, and the author drums busily for tourism and statehood (the novel was finished before statehood came last spring). Honolulu Resident Michener strives hard for a lyric quality as the two-party system triumphs and the barons and their onetime vassals sit happily together on the same interlocking directorates. But after all the blood and gusto, such gentle music is hardly audible...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Though the language curtain sometimes reduces the poet's lyric song to schoolboy singsong, this translation permits more than a glint of Pasternak's genius to filter through...