Word: lyricize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Carol Fox, 55, feisty, determined co-founder of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, who, as its general manager for 25 years, helped build it into one of the country's leading opera companies; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A former voice student, Fox gave Maria Callas her U.S. debut and brought so many top-ranked Italian singers to the Lyric that the company was dubbed "La Scala West...
...English and German cycles. The San Diego Opera stages a Verdi festival, producing the relatively obscure works-this year Un Giorno di Regno-along with the more familiar ones. Usually defined as companies other than the so-called Big Five-New York's Metropolitan, the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera-the regional groups are distinguished by their employment of American artists and even American composers. Last season the more than 60 regional companies in the U.S. attracted 49% of its opera audiences...
...strong entries. For opening night he created a gossamer duet for Darci Kistler and Ib Andersen to the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1. The dancers seem to be skating-two very young lovers etching their joy on a pond by moonlight. This is a charming little lyric that never takes itself, or figure skating, seriously. Still, in the subtle use of half-and three-quarter-point work for the radiant Kistler, Robbins manages to give toe shoes the rocking balance of a skate blade...
Sometimes Jeffreys sings about these kids directly: the hard, hopeless downtown orphans whose hustle along the thin edge becomes a musical metaphor for political desperation and spiritual desolation. Often the kids lurk at the core of a lyric or, like phantoms, underneath a smart-stepping riff. Jeffreys does not always deal with them directly. His best tunes - many of them, like Mystery Kids, to be found on his newest album, Escape Artist -have the cool anger and the anxious tenderness of a street blood. A Jeffreys record is like a fast cruise across the radio band. Reggae, jazz and full...
...from Clark Kent to Superman something more than a matter of fluffing up his cape; the man has a quiet sense of irony about him. Margot Kidder is a perfect Lois Lane. She makes one believe that inside that ambitious reporter there just may be a lady who reads lyric poetry on her nights off. The pair were the best thing about Superman I, and they are even better here. So are the special-effects people, whose work is far more polished technically than it was before. Taken together, all these people have contributed to the creation of something that...