Word: lyrically
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...awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...
...pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus, may go in one brief number-Autumn in New York or The Girl Next Door-through a kaleidoscopic range of moods, most of them merely suggested. by a rhythmic break, a lightly lyric flight in the right hand, a sudden shifting of dynamic gears. Ahmad can build his musical ideas with such subtlety that the listener often has the sensation of not knowing where he is being led until the final note is played...
Miss Schlamme is blessed with a lovely lyric soprano voice and displays great sensitivity toward her material. Taking the audience into her confidence, she prefaced each song with a brief analysis of its contents, making it understandable regardless of its foreign words. But only to hear Miss Schlamme is to miss half the performance. Her capabilities as an actress showed time and time again through her animated expressions and gestures that turned each song into a vividly told story...
...Lehrer, 31, onetime Harvard mathematics instructor and still the college boy's delight. Lehrer is that rare amateur who turned professional and who did so successfully; in his last engagement he threatened the sanity of S.R.O. crowds at London's Royal Festival Hall. Sample Lehrer lyric...
...breathe quietly again! But this line is delivered as though by a tired prostitute, and not by a woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing gossamer here...