Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love, So Near and Yet So Far) by one of the most offbeat café singer-pianists now operating. The style ranges from a belting, parade-beat Hooray for Love to a lilting Let's Fall in Love with a light stress on the leer in the lyric...
...Unlike Cerquetti, slim, dark-haired Soprano Clara Petrella, 32, has built her success as much on sheer dramatic ability as on her voice. Her voice is lyric rather than dramatic, and at La Scala she has become one of the foremost performers of contemporary music. At her best in lighter roles, she has recently turned histrionic, now longs to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West...
...Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies as the NBC Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is "completely self-contained," i.e., it can operate independently of guest artists...
...tenor in Paris, where castrati singers were frowned upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker...
...introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices of our time." It is true that cummings reads very musically and slowly, relishing every syllable whether it means anything or not. The best impression was made by his poem "Thanksgiving: 1956," in which he denounced the official apathy of our government during the Hungarian crisis. Still, cummings is far from being...