Word: lyricizing
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...groups link themselves with the most banal and commercial of today's pop stars--people like George Michael and Phil Collins whose primary lyric is "I miss you, baby." With their pleasant, sleep-inducing hum, a cappella groups sing in a manner reminiscent of Muzak, that great piped-in music so often heard in certain Woolworth's branches...
...producer pal Lorne Michaels' Saturday Night Live shows over the years can instantly attest. The man who wrote Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard and You Can Call Me Al and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover knows how to have a good time with a lyric, but only Paul Simon could write a tune titled Have a Good Time that's a deliberately dippy paean to incidental ennui and spiritual indifference...
...VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by Dominick Argento. Encouraging news for American composers. This 1976 work, one of the finest American operas ever, gets a new production from the Chicago Lyric Opera. Through...
...years Paz has been a logical candidate with a place on the academy's short list. He has an international reputation as an intellectual and a distinguished body of lyric poetry well suited to the resounding citation that accompanied the announcement: ". . . impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity...
This sort of conversation gets a big play in State of Grace, which is so yoked to naturalism that it denies its denizens any lyric power. The Irish used to be able to talk at least. But they mostly shout and mumble in this story of a young man (Sean Penn) who returns to the Kitchen to find himself in a fatal family dispute involving his best friend (Gary Oldman), his old girlfriend (ravishing Robin Wright) and her gang-boss brother (Ed Harris). In State of Grace, the Irish are Italians without style. As one of them says, "We drink...