Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campana Sommersa, the music by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor for the sake...
...Lyric Poetry before 1700", Professor Rollins, Emerson...
...pachyderm of the violin species, has dragged him up out of the orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...years smart young women have been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay. But she eludes them all with her impertinent patter?"a few figs from thistles"?and, in more serious vein, with her virile poetry culminating in the lyric drama which sang itself to Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchman, produced sensationally at the Metropolitan...
...collection includes a little of the patter, more of the lyric wisdom, and several of her compact sonnets. The patter is less flippant...