Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aisle to a spattering of applause. (For reasons best known to the French, the foolish old nymph in Platée was written for a tenor.) As Sénéchal launched into the music, he quickly demonstrated why he is one of France's most courted lyric tenors. The smooth, light-textured voice moved with ease from falsetto to full voice, changing shading and color as it kept pace with Tenor Sénéchal's brilliant comic miming...
...passionate conviction, important in the world of fashion and art. As portrayed by Lois Marshall and Thomas Hayward, the lovers seemed like the uncertain adolescents of Blue Denim. They sang well, though the round, supple tone of Miss Marshall is well known and pleasing, as is the light, lyric vocalism of Mr. Hayward. The orchestra stumbled through the score...
...result is a seven-disk set of remarkable clarity, in which the various elements of the orchestra stand forth in superbly wrought detail. In the comparatively calm air of the early symphonies and of the Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm...
...partly because of her size (5 ft. 6 in., 185 lbs.), partly because of her wooden acting, she did not appear in a fully staged opera until 1956 (Cavalleria Rusticana in Florida). Since then, she has made occasional guest appearances-IL Trovatore and La Gioconda with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Medea and Ariadne auf Naxos with the San Francisco Opera. Last summer she took her great voice to Europe, won loud ovations in both London and Spoleto. Last week she received the most cherished honor of all: an invitation to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Next season, Met Manager Rudolf...
...glint of Pasternak's poetic genius filters through; whole stanzas blaze with life and passion. But, since Pasternak frequently relies on a fusion of images and sounds, perhaps only an inspired fellow poet could devise sensuously idiomatic English equivalents. In Translator Kayden's rhymes, Pasternak's lyric song is sometimes reduced to schoolboy singsong...