Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished composer, without compare in his particular field. Together they rose to heights that would have been unattainable for each single. Gilbert and Sullivan were the perfect union of sense and sound. Sullivan's music matches wit for wit, and gibe for gibe, with Gilbert's book and lyrics. There is not a note which is not in harmony with the spirit of the words; not a lyric or a verse which does not tell the story. In Gilbert and Sullivan you won't find any padding, stuffing's, or irrelevancies, and that is why their plays have endured...
...personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...gloomy as a Scottish murderer, he strides with downcast head, while battlements rise out of mist about him and chasms open at his feet. Again, in a lyric moment, his face shines with the ardor of a lover, and when he slips off his shaggy sweater his beholders see a long cloak slip from the shoulders of one who stands under a balcony in Verona. Best of all he loves the thrill of impending defeat, when the pitying crowd can read in his visage the despair of one who has striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing...
...June Girl," somewhere between the issue's covers, might well have been written in Tin Pan alley, or inserted in the humorous publication of Pomona college. It rather lacks Lampy's customary standard of dignity and originality and has an unpleasant scent of a very poor and backneyed lyric which has been written and rewritten for 10,009 popular pianos and pianolas...
...their numerous successors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If the works of many German authors are heavily weighted with thought, these works are the more stimulating to thought. If, on the other hand, it can be said that par excellence the art of the Germans is music, German lyric poetry, whether spontaneous among the people or cultivated by masters, will be found to view with the abundance of German songs without words. Especially significant is the work of modern dramatists...