Word: lyricizing
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Another Doctor of Music was awarded to Beverly Sills, the renowned lyric coloratura soprano and leading singer of the New York City Opera Company...
...influential of Victorian writers. He has an imposing, theatrical head--with staring eyes, straight nose, and a massive white beard--a black cassock is draped over his shoulders and bound with rope at the waist. Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy places; and she played to her mournful tunes, and caused wailful violins...
WHAT WILL PROBABLY attract you the most about Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us are the surfaces of things, the lyric Mississippi atmosphere, the rural details, the moods and faces. These are only incidentals in a lot of films, but here they are pleasant enough to be the most important things, and also to remind us that the best function of art is often not that of probing "depths" but of making us understand and love shallow things, things of the surface...
...much about its easy and obvious morals--we are all thieves; you can rob with a pen too; bankers, when robbed, even cheat on the insurance claims; depression and capitalism force us all to continually steal from one another in order to live--as about some regained, lyric beauty from the lost, mythical world it shows. (Mythical worlds always seem to be lost ones, too.) At least what it does best is this: not say anything but show at least the outline of this world of surface and detail, of atmosphere and appearance. And it is against the grain...
...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...