Word: lyricizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in Paris--quietly. He doesn't like to give concerts and he's avoided trips to the United States because of his feelings about American involvement in Southeast Asia. Fortunately, though, his music is more accessible to us than he is. Brel is a master of the lyrical song. He is a good poet and a good composer but his true genius lies in his ability to integrate his lyrics and his music into an inviolable whole. After you listen to a Brel song you don't walk away humming it--you really sing it, words...
French cinematographer Jean Boffety has helped give this world a pale damp beauty. Critic Pauline Kael compared the effect to the mood of Faulkner, but there is something lyric and almost painfully beautiful which could exist nowhere outside of film. There are wonderful details of gas stations and motor courts which recall Walker Evans, like the shots taken through screen doors to which bits of a painted bread ad still adhere or the recurrent presence of Coke bottles with their pale green glass, and Coke signs, even at the entrance of the state prison. But the effect of this carefully...
Offstage Springsteen's lyric virtuosity reduced to a mumble in hip, tough dude tones. "We had a bathroom with a big gaping hole in it that looked right out into this convent. I used to tell kids that during the war an airplane crashed into it. To save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen...
SCHUMANN: FANTASIESTÜCKE, OP. 12; DAVIDSBÜNDLERTÄNZE, OP. 6 (Columbia). A notable recording debut by a lyric virtuoso of the piano, Murray Perahia...
...this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric virtuoso since the days of the late Dinu Lipatti...