Word: lyrically
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Novelist Blake likes stormy scenes. Cimactic chorus at a family fight: "One mezzo, one dramatic soprano, one lyric soprano, one croak (stork), one croak (raven), one tenor, one baritone, two basses, one refrain-money." Even the paintings in an art gallery quarrel. But the storm clouds lift often enough to reveal a memorable series of landscapes-Langue-doc's fertile vineyards, the endless suburbs of Paris, Arles in its lingering Roman splendor...
...Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair last Sunday afternoon a gay & lyric troupe of 33 took the stage. They were the Wheeling Steelmakers, employes, or relatives of employes, in twelve plants of Wheeling Steel Corp. in the Ohio Valley. The occasion: a weekend outing & spree and a World's Fair broadcast to wind up their second season...
...exclusive contract, to make a batch of records. One number, which she had been singing at a new downtown hotspot called Café Society, she particularly wanted on wax. Called Strange Fruit, it had been written by a libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion was. The record was never made...
Susanna made the Lyric Theatre's repertory because a Fosterphile, Josiah Kirby Lilly of the Indianapolis druggist Lillys, had backed it to the tune of $50,000. Last week, just about the time the mutual backscratching was over, the Lyric Theatre noticed it had three flops on its hands. It closed its season after a dozen performances, announced it would send The Devil on the road in the autumn, open a second season with some new tries...
...culture was not much enriched by the Lyric Theatre last week, the reputation of Composer Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of the dapper, New York-born killer who flourished in the Southwest in the '703 and '80s. The choreography of Eugene Loring and the dancing of the Ballet Caravan were no less exciting...