Word: lyrically
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Starting off the concert was a playful "Musical Birthday Card" by local composer Tom Flaherty in celebration of Pro Arte's 20th anniversary season. Though it did not have a large dynamic or mood range, the Flaherty piece was graceful, lyric, and lilting; and the orchestra man- aged its complex rhythms and harmonies masterfully...
BosTix and Harvard are attempting to lure the public to the new booth by offering free performances from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside Holyoke Center. The Krokodiloes, the American Repertory Theatre and the Boston Lyric Opera are scheduled to participate...
Anyone who doubts that life is unfair should meet Renee Fleming. She's an international opera star blessed with a warm, creamy, lyric-soprano voice and show-stopping good looks. Signatures: Great Opera Scenes (London), her latest CD, has hit the classical charts. Andre Previn is composing an operatic version of A Streetcar Named Desire especially for her (the San Francisco Opera will give the premiere next season). And as if all that weren't enough, she has two children, sings jazz on the side and is notorious for being...a really nice person...
...jaunty angle, Sam Fuller, encountered in Parisian exile, briefly stilled the stream of consciousness that usually rushed across his gravel-bed larynx. He was searching for something he rarely offered in his movies--a neat summarizing idea. "That's it," he finally offered. "A director takes a song, a lyric, and makes a symphony of it. Does that make sense...
...Heiress would be a better play if the Goetzes had as much compassion for Catherine as this cast and crew do, or if they at least portrayed her as consistently as James does. Nonetheless, small theatres don't come much better than the Lyric, and The Heiress is an evening full of riches indeed...