Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More I Do" recording, under a Republic label with vocal by ex-Waring man Walter Scheff, features a lyric starting: "The more I do, the more I want to do; so I do nothing, do nothing...
Director Laszlo Halasz had heard Lyric Soprano Spence in a Broadway production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow. When Polyna Stoska, who last winter sang the role of the "composer" in Ariadne, was snapped up by the Metropolitan, Halasz sent for Wilma. He had been watching blonde Suzy Morris* almost as long. "I had already decided that she had the finest dramatic soprano voice in the entire country. She is a young Jeritza. Everybody told me I was taking my life in my hands to produce an opera with two singers who had never in their life sung...
...theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...
Spender, who along with W. H. Auden is recognized as one of the leaders of British letters today, is teaching at Sarah Lawrence College this year. Most successful as a lyric poet, he has been influential in rekindling the spirit of European culture. He was graduated from Oxford...
...Jolson himself was ready with a long-winded explanation. He had tried to persuade the sponsor to let him supply the punch the Music Hall has lacked since Crosby left the show last year. He had been turned down cold. Al's version of it sounded like the lyric of an oldtime Jolson song...