Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puttied magazine pin-ups of androgynous lead singer Brett Anderson, in which case all of the songs on the album will take on a deeper sensual connotation. If you're not one of the die-hard few, however, you might be just a bit put off by the continual lyric references to dogs, daddies, pigs, and heroin(es). While the meandering melodies and melancholy rhythms of the songs are innocuous enough, the incessant darkness of the lyrics is distracting and almost contrived...
Janice Del Sesto, the managing director of the Boston Lyric Opera, added that women are often less cautious than...
...corridors as Young free-associates, remembering on the title track, for example, a friend who died too soon. In the second verse of Western Hero, Young sounds as if he had been touched by the D-day memorials just past, but instead of summoning old shades once again, his lyric constructs a taut envoi to American idealism...
...from stereotype; he elevated the trials of those gray-flannel souls to a kind of sanctified anguish. He saw them from the inside. And because he was a sensualist in describing people who thought it their sad destiny to be prim, Cheever was able to create a kind of lyric poetry about the things he loved: the forced intimacy of Manhattan foot traffic, a beach house at midnight, the fidelity in a cocker spaniel's tilted glance, the tenseness in a young wife's posture, the sweet-and-sour scents of rosemary and rue, the pulse of lust beneath...
...this is another in a series of strong American opera premieres during the past few years, which has also included Philip Glass's The Voyage and William Bolcom's McTeague. San Francisco Opera general director Lotfi Mansouri speaks of sharing Liaisons with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and taking McTeague in return; it is an excellent idea, for both works merit second and third productions, and not just in this country...