Word: lyrically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nancy Donovan combines her fine lyric soprano voice with a winsome personality, good looks, and real acting talent in an excellent performance as Martha. She is ably seconded by Robert Pitkin (of "my object all sublime" fame), Le Roi Operti, Betty Luster, and several others. But Robert Douglas is sadly inadequate as the opera singer who is Martha's first love; he is fat with disturbing regularity, and his vocal shortcomings are not overcome by other saving graces...
Mistinguett, whose lyric legs drew ahs and ohs before Chevalier ever saw a razor, was finally being typecast. The ancient musicomedienne's next Paris show, hopefully titled Life Begins Tomorrow, would show her as an octogenarian...
Dickery by Dock. Danny's repertory is filled with tongue twisters. In Lady in the Dark, his perfect diction and voice control wowed Broadway as he rattled off the names of 50 Russian composers in Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tschaikowsky, singing in 40 seconds...
...Piece of Lace. New York discovered Danny Kaye the same night he discovered himself. A song written by Sylvia was the catalyst. Called Stanislavsky, it kidded the great entrepreneur of the Moscow Art Theater, whose "method," according to Sylvia's lyric, consisted of teaching drama students...
Menuhin has often been accused of stylizing his performance to provide a better display of his virtuoso technique, but here no such criticism can be offered, for his presentation contains the proper lyric and melodic qualities without the affectation which detracted from his playing of the late Mozart sonatas...