Word: lyricisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout their LP The Days of Wine and Roses (Ruby Records) the band has flashes of brilliance, producing snatches of driving guitar play. But repeatedly, experimental aspirations sabotage singer Steve Wynn's songwriting. On "When You Smile" both the lyric continuity and the rhythm are broken by an instrumental intrusion. Even on the closing title cut the finest on the album--the bond puts its propulsive playing on hold white it goes pioneering...
...album is terrific and some an error, rather than all being essentially mediocre. Even the concert didn't preclude a future performance of quality. Wynn's songwriting has improved and Down There (as well as parts of the show) demonstrated the group's talent for matching riff to lyric. With maturity they ought to gain control over the new density of sound and their attention to instrumentation. Then they should be unstoppable...
...actors are as skillful as Jefferson and Scalamoni, Jessica Lichtner's "By My Side" lacks the vitality of the dances without substituting lyric beauty, and Weatherstone's unspectacular performance in what should have been the dominant role deters from the overall effect...
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon). Lorin Maazel leads a vivid performance of this lush, intense late romantic song cycle...
Onstage, he cuts a splendid figure: blond and handsome, with impossibly blue eyes, an athletic carriage and an assured, commanding presence. His distinctive, honey-rich, seductive lyric baritone voice is equally adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful...