“Kainene and Olanna. Her name is the lyrical God’s Gold, and mine is the more practical Let’s watch and see what next God will bring.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hildegard’s imaginative, lyrical and reflective music represents a fulcrum between two eras. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A major tenet of the American Revolution—Jefferson had given it lyrical expression in the Declaration of Independence—was that all kings, and not just George III, were inherently evil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical voice said, “What about my flames, old friend?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lillian Meecham disregarded her daughter’s objection and in a clear, lyrical voice filled with the soft music of southern speech, prayed to the Virgin, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Thomas Jefferson’s lyrical rendering of the reasons for the entire revolutionary enterprise emphasized the self-evident character of the principles at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It did have a lyrical sound to it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gradually, melodies would enter, Kira recalled; some slow, soaring lyrical phrases, followed by other harsher phrases with a quick pulsating beat. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lacked the lyrical eloquence and the floating optimism of the Jeffersonian version because it was grounded in the palpable sense of contingency Adams had internalized over his long career. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For only you could grant me these lyrical modes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jefferson style was fluid, lyrical, cadenced, and melodious. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Think about the musical aspects as well as the lyrical aspects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He was so lyrical—God, was he lyrical!” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he was not a mover-and-shaker, only a draftsman; the words he wrote were merely the lyrical expression of ideas that had been bandied about in the Congress and the various colonial legislatures for years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His voice rings clear and steady, filling the church with lyrical notes and giving me goose bumps. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem’s respected name. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Forty missions,” Hungry Joe announced readily in a voice lyrical with relief and elation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She and her husband, Marlon, were from Grenada and spoke in a lyrical accent as though just about to break into song. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As for her, beyond all the films she had seen, and all the novels and lyrical poems she had read, she had no experience at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Homeboy’s got no appreciation for a lyrical genius such as Deuce Diggs.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All these receive loving and lyrical attention in "In the Heights." "In the Heights" celebrates the resilience Washington Heights has used to fight the pandemic 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

The film, set before and during World War I, is a lyrical evocation of the Scottish landscape and the hard lives of the farmers who work it. Terence Davies, Unfiltered and Bitter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

The more delicate approach at the keyboard in turn created the program’s most delightful ensemble playing, in the lyrical slow movement especially. Review | Czech piano trio makes Washington debut 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

When Christoper Ricks, comparing Donne with Bob Dylan, asserts that "alliteration and rhyme are ways of having one thing lead to another", he could be commenting on Muldoon's lyrical strategies in Songs and Sonnets. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z

Then the goat, played by Yulia Rutberg in a long white dress, floats down to ground level and proves to be as lyrical as Pan. Review: ‘Smile at Us, Oh Lord’ Depicts a Jewish Odyssey 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The vision of Fred Rogers—as played by Tom Hanks—that emerges in Marielle Heller’s new film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” is lyrical, strange, and melancholy. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But prosper he does: this is a prodigiously assured Fringe debut, an hour of blistering lyrical virtuosity and teen attitude. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z

The result is photography that is emotionally accessible, often funny, puzzling, and lyrical. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

I'm thinking it's going to be lyrical, probably piece-y, there are probably going to be metaphors or motifs that repeat. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

She zeroed in on Hakeem as her target, deftly weaving sophisticated lyrical attacks athletically and flamboyantly. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 8: Hakeem, No Lyon 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Still, he brought command and unflagging stamina to the performance, drawing character, lyrical pliancy and rhapsodic flair from the score. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

The Bard is a goldmine for musicians – partly because of his incomparable lyrical gift and insight into the human condition, and partly because he's out of copyright. Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z

“For the dance world more accustomed to seeing ballets, opera movements or lyrical forms, Colin and Sarah will be a new discovery in their musical repertoire,” Edmunds said. Lucinda Childs' first new dance for her company in 16 years comes with an Arcade Fire connection 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

It was, not unlike everything that surrounded it, ravishingly — even painfully — lyrical, forcing Hope into his highest register while Wu’s piano rustled beneath. Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Before long, critics were comparing him with Bob Dylan for the lyrical force of his songwriting. Cohen, music's poetic visionary, died in his sleep after fall 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

His white-hot virtuosity is tempered by coolheaded thinking and lyrical sensitivity. Yes, We Need (Yet) Another Rachmaninoff Recording 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Rooted in R&B, its chorus is based on the Elkie Brooks hit Sunshine After The Rain - an appropriate lyrical metaphor for the band's chequered history. 2010-01-20T08:09:00Z

Of course, the bold lyrical proclamations about women’s social and sexual issues and how they’re entwined would be appreciated but pushed aside if there wasn’t an equal strong musical backbone. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z

I like making dance records with lyrical depth. A Minute With: Scottish DJ Calvin Harris hits big time in U.S 2012-12-05T18:27:34Z

Her second album "Laila’s Wisdom" shocked the industry in 2017, and now "Eve" has secured her space as a lyrical genius and icon. Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Allen acknowledged his mortality with a typically lyrical farewell, writing on the Gong site, in part: Remembering Daevid Allen, co-founder of Soft Machine and Gong 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Do our childhoods often return to us in the form of coherent, lyrical reveries? Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

His prose becomes lyrical as he transmits the shot-by-shot drama of the match. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

He explored the lyrical element underpinning the comedy, savoring the often exquisite counter-lines for winds and horns, getting generally splendid ensemble work from his musicians. A by-the-book 'Marriage of Figaro' from Los Angeles Opera 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Bareilles’s songs, Ms. Paulus saw both range and a storyteller’s craft — “Gravity” being “a personal, deeply searing heartache of a song,” while “King of Anything” was “spunky with lyrical twists.” Sara Bareilles Takes Her Slice of Broadway With ‘Waitress’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

“She has given it muscle and sinew, enlarged its scope, and created a prose style that is lyrical and colloquial, at once faithful to its time and entirely recognizable to us.” Mantel unveils final volume in award-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Like fellow singer Jewel's astonishingly popular 1999 book "A Night Without Armor," the lyrical work of McKuen can be regularly snapped up for 50 cents a piece in garage sales across the land. Remembering Rod McKuen, the accidental hipster 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

"Night of Hunters'" lyrical ambition matches its music. Tori Amos lightens up 2011-09-20T16:21:00Z

The violinist Gil Shaham joined the ensemble as the “surprise guest,” playing with a sweet tone in the lyrical second and Spanish-influenced third movements of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, elegantly accompanied by the orchestra. The Knights Kick Off 3-Year New York Residency 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

With the original demo for "Ringside," the album's first track, Ham offers many of his broadest lyrical hints about the quandary unfolding in his mind. Badfinger's Pete Ham: "Misunderstood" 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

It's the former's gently lyrical tales that are perhaps the best comparison, as Beagle's prose in these collected short stories enchants the reader. Sleight of Hand by Peter S Beagle ? review 2011-04-08T23:06:07Z

“Rusty Brown,” the first of a two-volume series, promises to showcase Ware’s sublime artistic vision, blending his trademark drawings with a lyrical exploration of weighty themes. The 18 books to read this fall - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Etana delivers a mature and confident sound with top-notch lyrical content and unique vocals on her third studio album, "Better Tomorrow." Review: Etana packs a punch on 'Better Tomorrow' 2013-02-25T17:53:08Z

Her piano solos allowed little room for dawdling and lyrical rumination. Review: Eliane Elias Honors Generations of Brazilian Composers at Birdland 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Despite the grittiness of its subject, “One Arm,” as a story, is essentially a lyrical allegory in which the third-person narrative is as dominant as that in a Grimm’s fairy tale. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z

This was partially because of the “CD boom,” but also because of an easy acceptance of the work’s obvious lyrical genius. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

I was so unmoved by my first viewing of his lyrical hip-hop with Comfort that I was shocked by his level of emotion in front of the judges. Stepping, samba and more damaged goods on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-22T12:01:00Z

She’s one of the most disarming singers in mainstream country music, with a sharp tongue, a penchant for flamboyant lyrical gesture and a cooing voice that only barely sugarcoats deeply acidic thoughts. Music Review: Shotgun Justice Served With a Strut 2010-10-01T22:17:00Z

As a result, the evening oscillates between periods of lyrical beauty and patches of obtuse dryness. ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage depicts veterans’ struggles through dance

Her soaring melodies were woven through sections of vividly contrasting character, with grating dissonance melting into more lyrical moments. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

Lambert’s other main lyrical realm is relatively new terrain for her; having newly entered her 30s, she’s spending less time charging forward and more time looking back than ever. REVIEW: Miranda Lambert Strikes Gold on Platinum 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Running just an hour, Mr. Fugard’s play is little more than a lyrical trifle. Theater Review: Athol Fugard in His Play ‘The Shadow of the Hummingbird’ 2014-04-11T22:48:25Z

On the lyrical set opener “Pinwheel,” for example, the content of his cascading improv lines were remarkably similar to those of his pianist, Alex Brown. Review | Victor Provost will make you think of the steelpan in a completely different way 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

It is even more guitar driven — Mr. Miller discovered a model, the Jackson USA Soloist, that he loves — and more narrative and lyrical, with a crisper focus on arrangements and harmony over beats. Music: The Indie Band Sleigh Bells? New Album, ?Reign of Terror? 2012-02-14T12:00:01Z

“There are a lot of films made in the name of realism that are exploitative, or too anthropological, or too lyrical.” Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

Though voiced by a human, FN Meka and his music — “lyrical content, chords, melody, tempo, sounds” — was derived in part from artificial intelligence, the industry publication Music Business Worldwide reported last year. Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

My hopeful answer was that plenty of men wax lyrical about the older women with whom they had flings when they were young. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the enigmatic, lyrical Piano Sonata No. 2, he conveyed the work’s roiling, unstable moods, with a gently seething Andante and a brilliantly articulated Vivace. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev at Carnegie, Channeling Rage and Grief 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Although the vocal line here is lyrical and direct, stormy orchestral interludes suggest inner turmoil. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

A widow immerses herself in the letters her late husband received from an earlier lover in Constantine’s lyrical novel. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Rather than putting us in the shoes of the poor, "Rich Hill" merely lets filmmakers and art-house patrons pat themselves on the back for watching the lyrical misfortunes of others. 'Rich Hill' a poor perspective on teens mired in poverty 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

In the unexpectedly touching and lyrical “Fancy,” she reflects on the possibilities of style. How an Opera Can Fit in a Mailbox 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

With a lyrical voice trained in bel canto style, he is challenging notions of what a Wagner voice should sound like. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Overall this is a lyrical and elegant performance. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Critical consent holds second album Sound of Silver to be LCD's best, a collection that fuses disco sensibilities and bounteous percussion with lyrical explorations of loneliness and bereavement. My favourite album 2011-08-04T12:17:00Z

Beginning and ending with calmly lyrical riffs of guitar music, a series of horrific scenes are enacted on a bare stage by actors in monochrome costumes. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z

Toibin's text is lyrical and paranoid, offering in just 90 minutes a glimpse of a mother's alienation from history, from, in fact, The Greatest Story Ever Told. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z

Mr. LaMontaine’s music was lyrical and for the most part traditional, with a neo-Romantic streak reflected in his embrace of poetry, American themes and the natural landscape. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z

You’re listening for two things with Wilson, as well as with lots of lyrical playwrights. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Her happy childhood is in contrast to the lyrical darkness in her music. Cate Le Bon: Living for the music 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

He is not what we fear, but not quite what he would like to think he is, either, and the parallels with Nabokov are more lyrical than the signposts of foreigner, road-trip and kidnap. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z

I had listened to recordings of Holly Hunter, who played Ada, performing Bach and Brahms and thought she'd be best suited to reflective, lyrical music – and useless at the usual Michael Nyman-type stuff. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

“I Forgot That You Existed,” the opener, is cheery, almost glib — a lyrical disinfectant for the “Reputation” era. Taylor Swift Emerges From the Darkness Unbroken on ‘Lover’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

His interview with the Boston Herald is a lyrical word salad of equivocation that’s impressive in it’s own way. Katy Griffin’s bloody Trump head photo is red meat for the manic right 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

But his writing for "The Vinyl Café," presented in engaging, funny and soulful monologues rehearsed on long tours, also includes travel reflections and expansive, lyrical pieces on such seemingly forgettable topics as cheesemakers. Pull up a chair at 'The Vinyl Caf?' in Seattle 2011-12-12T23:05:05Z

Sure, the album is chockful of cultural referents — from the loopy Doors-like lyrical stylings of “Bury a Friend” and tape loops from "The Office" to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Billie Eilish is the new pop intelligentsia 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The language of that piece was florid, even lyrical, so the new one is far more conversational. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z

Erpenbeck is a less lyrical writer than Woolf, but she shares with the English modernist a demanding, experimental, serious aesthetic. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

In the great operas of Verdi, Puccini, Strauss and Wagner, Ms. Harteros is as good — as powerful yet lyrical in her singing, as sensitive in her acting — as anyone in the world. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day.” Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lastly, in an uncommonly lyrical performance of Janáček's Taras Bulba , Elder stressed the work's fervent sense of hope rather than its grisly depictions of torture and execution. Halle/Elder – review 2013-02-04T19:06:19Z

When I finally heard What a Way to End It All from their first album, with its odd lyrical bent and colourful cabaret aspect, I was transfixed but transformed. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

Her Wednesday night show was no different, but after a break for water and encouragement from the crowd, she tiptoed her way through her latest lyrical minefield to cheers. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Maybe it was the hormones, but I felt the prose was lyrical and shifting in an interesting way, even as it described horror. ‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The film, which Amazon will release in select theaters Friday and launch on Amazon Prime next week, is a lyrical, black-and-white montage that digs into the long-term ache of incarceration. In ‘Time,’ love and a family waylaid by incarceration 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

The exultant, lyrical quality of the violinist Leroy Jenkins’s “Revival” serves as a reminder of his skill in writing for string quartet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The title of this gorgeous debut comes from the lyrical question, “Where do the good boys go to hide away?” 15 Pop Songs You Might Have Missed This Summer 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

In “Ritual,” Mr. Dendy emphasizes naturalistic movement, though athletic turns and lyrical partnering find their way into the choreography as well. Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical’ Unfolds at Lincoln Center 2013-07-21T21:42:34Z

The flute’s skittish riffs and winding lyrical lines sometimes ignite agitated orchestral responses; at other times they are cushioned by subdued, sustained harmonies. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

Rigorous craftsmanship and an acute sense of lyrical line are among its characteristics. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2013-07-01T17:10:56Z

Her 2015 follow-up, “Pageant Material,” struck more lyrical blows to country tradition. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

It reminded me of some of the thrilling and unanticipated lyrical experiments of mid- to late-90s independent hip-hop, when words and drums turned from building blocks to Silly Putty. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The short scenes, which vary from the banal to the lyrical, are like impressionistic fragments of a collage. The Hard Man ? review 2011-04-04T20:29:00Z

By individuating their lives in fiercely lyrical language, each in their own way sings, critiques, and dances the body electric. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

You could never be sure how his skits would go, but you knew they would have a jittery brilliance to them, with a leftfield lyrical twist or an emotional gut-punch. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Loosely organized as a series of conceptual chapters, the book is passionate, inviting, even lyrical. The Passion and Peril of Birding 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The gospel inflections and lyrical shifts from spirituality to earthier matters speak as much of a deep love of Southern soul as they do of White's background as the son of Christian missionaries. Matthew E White: Big Inner – review 2013-01-17T15:30:01Z

Old Lucas, played by the able veteran musical performer Chuck Cooper, waxes lyrical on the subject of the mighty Mississippi River, which he compares to a father wanting to embrace his lost daughter. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z

Still, it’s a minor aggravation, and Charyn’s writing sometimes rises to a lyrical level that washes any quibbles aside. ‘I Am Abraham’: inside the mind and heart of Lincoln 2014-02-26T20:15:46Z

Duncan mimics the short, poignant stanzas and lyrical observations in many of Brooks’s poems — a few of which are placed throughout, beginning with “The Busy Clock,” written in 1928 when she was 11. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Four lyrical mini-concertos at the heart of the piece proved most captivating, with each of the four soloists displaying a uniquely moody and mysterious sound world. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

It's not a cover, or even a version of Hey Jude – even its lyrical references are skittish. Readers recommend songs about the Beatles: The results 2010-10-07T22:30:00Z

It included Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and other lyrical 20th century realists, and, in the work of Arthur Dove, it dipped one toe tentatively into abstraction. This Museum Has a Lived-In Look 2011-03-15T10:00:00Z

On “Shouldn’t Matter but It Does,” he sometimes sounds like he’s leaving lyrical place holders he never returns to. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Andersson garnered international attention with his first film, 1970's A Swedish Love Story, a gorgeous tale of teenage romance that manges to be both realistic and lyrical. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-19T00:06:06Z

Her paintings combine a distinctly urban jangle with a slightly tawdry, rather literal inner light, while deftly sampling abstract strategies that range from Frank Stella’s stripe paintings through lyrical abstraction to graffiti art. Art in Review: KELTIE FERRIS: KF + CM 4EVER 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

Like Davis’s first novel, “The Earthquake Room,” “X” is lyrical and nonlinear, with sentences that feel like carved obsidian: dark, sharp and shiny. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

And then there is the author of the show’s salty and lyrical book. Theater Review: ‘Independents,’ by Marina Keegan, at SoHo Playhouse 2012-09-11T20:40:08Z

The result is a blend of startling lyrical depth and slow, whirlpools of murky music. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

Earlier this year we saw the innovative and revelatory Coke Studio, a celebration of Pakistani music ranging from pop and experimental to classical and lyrical. Pakistan's fertile artistic ground 2010-10-10T13:00:00Z

Each unfolds in a conversational murmur, depicting two rhapsodists in a state of intuitive kinship: Mr. Haden with his pachyderm grace, Mr. Jarrett with his lyrical eddies of tension and release. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

As Fitzgerald's editor Max Perkins wrote in 1925: it is "a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism". What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

The musical elevates the lyrical here, which latter in any case simply can't occur without the former. You can't pick the lyrics out of pop 2010-12-09T12:07:00Z

Certified instructors select music that corresponds to five body rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. Where Dancing, Not Drinking, Is the Point 2010-08-04T16:26:00Z

“Genealogy,” the first section, is a spirited, lyrical séance of sorts, in which the ghosts of long-disappeared Russian Jews are summoned into being. Theater Review: ‘Opus No. 7’ From the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow 2013-01-14T21:58:16Z

Bagieu’s medium is graphite, and she uses its entire range of possibilities: from looping lines to richly built-up shadows that allow for lyrical depictions of snow, moonlight, cigarette smoke. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The text — lyrical, meditative, philosophical — tells me otherwise. The First Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

In general, McKay writes in a loose, somewhat elliptical style, with a fair amount of slangy dialect, but he does occasionally grow quite lyrical. Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Dermota’s singing, though lyrical and tender, is sometimes a little reedy and pinched at the top. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

It is so lyrical and yet not heavy and old-fashioned like so many fantasies. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - why should you read it? 2013-06-20T14:22:12Z

Here, too many guest rappers keep crowding him out, diluting whatever lyrical coherence the album may have had. Kanye West's Triumphant, Confounding New Album 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

In his work, conflict and violence, especially, take on an almost lyrical quality in the signature confrontations he stages among family members and friends. 2010-02-12T23:14:00Z

The transition from there into a quizzically lyrical passage was deftly handled. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The book is fraught, forensic, lyrical, and fierce, at long last searching the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service itself,” he said. Posthumous John le Carré novel to be published in October 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

But then came the ne plus ultra, the infinitely lyrical and endlessly serious quintet, with Grosz returning to take the viola part. Janine Jansen string sextet ? review 2012-05-18T10:37:27Z

Sandy waxes lyrical in parlour-song idiom about a romantic love idyll that also turns out to enclose a dark secret he would prefer to forget. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z

McGuinness is a fan of the everything-including-the-kitchen-sink style of arrangement, but his songs wear the violins and xylophones lightly; moreover, he's of a spiky lyrical bent. Eugene McGuinness: The Invitation to the Voyage – review 2012-08-02T20:30:01Z

But Ms. Ziegler’s quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable. Review: ‘A Delicate Ship’ Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

This is also true of Rocky's lyrical style, which is slow and southern-sounding, rather than a traditional hyped-up New York flow. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z

Later they interrupt their often lyrical phrases with screams that unfortunately become humorous. Dance Review: A Turkish Choreographer Inspired by New York 2011-06-27T22:20:35Z

In one especially lyrical section of 15 panels over four pages, Guibert illustrates Cope's mother dressing him with great tenderness when he was a toddler. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The “1999 to 2000” volume collects Schulz’s last work, and even here, 50 years after “Peanuts” was born, his line is sure and lyrical, his voice insightful and gentle. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

In the tradition of 'personal' documentaries, London could be the sardonic, mischievous heir to Humphrey Jennings' lyrical, wartime films of the capital. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z

This emotion-packed rendering of the grittily lyrical musical by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents is not only one of the finest revivals Signature Theatre has ever mounted. Signature’s ‘West Side Story’: It’s not just any night 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Colas, who has had the ribbon in his mouth like the horse’s bit, stops, turns around and stands, suddenly locked in Lise’s eyes; and the dynamics and tempo change, melting in lyrical tenderness. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

These busy pop-up manifestations muddy the tone created by Ms. Ellermann’s otherwise effectively lyrical set. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

“As a songwriter, I thought it was an interesting lyrical twist.” Gavin Rossdale: ‘If you divorce America's sweetheart, you're in trouble’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Dolefully lyrical, bar a bouncier middle section, it proved as twee as the orchestration implied. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The role sits nicely in the lyrical middle of Melody Moore’s clear, penetrating voice. Music Review: ?Prima Donna,? by Rufus Wainwright, Makes American Debut 2012-02-20T23:24:50Z

He began with Beethoven’s “Andante Favori,” a lilting, lyrical yet elusive piece, and the original slow movement of Beethoven’s mighty “Waldstein” Sonata. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Based around a sturdy, drifting piano theme, it's a thoughtful, sad and lyrical meditation on "why the future doesn't look so great". The Unthanks: Last - review 2011-03-10T23:07:00Z

A faculty member of Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop assembles "a series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties." Local books: a private-eye mom; the case for life on Mars and a civil-rights quest 2010-04-06T00:07:00Z

In Schubert’s “Moments Musicaux,” I found Mr. Perahia’s playing of the more subdued and lyrical of the six pieces uncharacteristically restrained. Music Review: Murray Perahia Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-06T22:27:16Z

Eventually, the symphony is able to escape into a sustained lyrical episode, but a traumatized atmosphere lingers: you keep waiting for more blows to fall. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The filmmakers spent several months shooting on location in Havana, and their care produces a vision of the place that is both lyrical and realistic. Movie Review: ?Chico & Rita,? Animated Film About Cuba and Its Music 2012-02-09T22:30:37Z

They may use the language of hate speak but, for Odd Future, these words are designed to upset and provoke an older generation but little more – the lyrical equivalent of Sid Vicious's swastika shirt. Frank Ocean and the courage to come out 2012-07-04T17:03:00Z

Murray made his mark by reengaging with the older, more lyrical styles of Don Byas and Ben Webster, and he built new room in the avant-garde for blues humor and playful ironies. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The tethers of punctuation disappear as the memory lifts into the lyrical and mythic, gliding into another register. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z

Bayer Sager’s artwork is as delicious and lyrical as any of her platinum hits. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager's large-scale paintings are on view in Los Angeles 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Before all of that, Ye was a Chicago kid known for his production prowess and doubted as a lyrical technician. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Where the music is gently lyrical, with effects of rhythmic wit, the dances are flamboyantly and pedantically busy, busy, busy. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

The players, who write their own material, strike gentle, lyrical notes, too. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:40:59Z

I think that from a lyrical standpoint a lot of it was – I was trying to capture a period of time that was happening. The Antlers open up about their new record “Familiars” and why making personal music is so scary 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

It is also highly lyrical, despite its eccentric appearance, and charged with an often tragic tension. Elena Shvarts obituary 2010-05-06T17:40:00Z

In prose that is as lyrical and surprising as her photographs, she offers a spirited account of her early formative experiences of horseback riding and rebellion in the Southern landscapes that deeply informed her childhood. Sally Mann's memoir 'Hold Still' as lyrical as her photos 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Those qualities prevailed through the rest of the suite, as did the attractions of the orchestra’s luminous string sound, lyrical woodwind playing and, especially in “Laideronnette,” its characterful percussion. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: ?Once Upon a Time,? as Told by 2 Composers 2010-02-26T21:54:00Z

But “Good Goes the Bye” suffers from a truly embarrassing lyrical conceit. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But the real beauty of Mr. Szeto’s rescoring was in the symphony’s more ruminative and lyrical sections, which thrive in reduced proportions. Music Review: At Chelsea Art Museum, Schumann as Others Hear Him 2010-06-23T21:57:00Z

The power of Mills’ weirdly lyrical works resides in the way they compel incompatible viewpoints to get along with one another. John Mills seems positively giddy 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

A surging first movement is followed by a restless scherzo, a generously lyrical slow movement and an impetuous finale that sounds fantastical on the surface but is run through with polyphonic passages. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

As does the lyrical Romantic pianism of “Canto,” which brings to mind Chopin or Rachmaninoff — and which connects to a longer history of European art music tradition. The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Not lyrical certainty – a blind optimism in the face of overwhelming misery – but musical certainty. Trends of 2012: Classic rock returns 2012-12-18T11:24:02Z

I never knew the lyrical story behind, "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere". Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now, with the publication of her first book-length collection in English, “Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm,” in a lyrical translation by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, a new audience has a chance to hear the thunderclap. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Gardner, on record as saying he believes the work to be "unshackled and dangerous and very un-English", tore into it with breathtaking lyrical ferocity. Prom 55: Peter Grimes – review 2012-08-26T10:04:13Z

Its effect is lyrical, comic and violently surprising, and it inspires Oguike to one of the strangest, and at times, one of the most beautiful, works of his career. Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-09T18:44:00Z

There are so many lovely moments in the book, beautiful passages of writing that speak to Beverly-Whittemore’s empathy and lyrical powers of description. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

In one of many lyrical passages of text in “Attention Servicemember,” Brody expresses his disdain for the jingoistic anthem “American Soldier,” by Toby Keith, which often provided the soundtrack for such ceremonies. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

There are also lyrical themes not common to current popular music: detailed description of manual work, and a celebration of the life and community that surrounds it. Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results 2010-07-22T22:04:00Z

Equally, the lyrical concerns and largely apolitical, amoral stance of the music set the blueprint for the musical style that would dominate the US charts for the next decade. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

His compositions were reliably accessible and often lyrical, if not boldly innovative, and he took pride in his versatility and broad appeal. Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is true to Apple in Bates’ applying technology, combining electronica and frisky orchestral music and lyrical vocal lines, in as friendly a way as possible. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The slow second movement is a particularly potent mixture of tension and lyrical space; Rudolph Puletz’s horn solo is achingly eloquent. Classical Music This Week: Sounds of Cleveland’s Past and P.D.Q. Bach 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

This is the most lyrical, accessible and playable of the three concertos. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z

The score is rich with lyrical stretches that almost break into song. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Despite his emphasis on accuracy, Mr. Gergiev was flexible in the rondo’s big lyrical theme, which anticipates the sublime final Adagio, played here with eloquence and dignity. Music Review: A Conquering Climax to a Tribute to Mahler 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

But fleeting is the word for the score’s lyrical stretches. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z

This new collection includes previously unpublished lyrical short fiction by a playwright who died in 1988. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Yet we don't wax lyrical about it in the way we do about, say, a wooden floor or a cast-iron railway station. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

“He’s got a Southern type of style, but at the same he’s lyrical,” Bailey said in a phone interview. Pink Siifu, a Shape-Shifting Musician With One Demand: Don’t Box Me In 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Lewis' deep insights into the emotional complications of this music were matched by his firm grasp of classical structure and the ways in which Schubert's lyrical gift illuminates that structure. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z

It’s a show that makes light of heavy drinking, but with a less lyrical tone than most. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z

Still, he brought shape and suppleness to the music, and, most important, allowed the singers plenty of leeway for lyrical expression. Opera Review: ‘I Puritani’ Revisits the English Civil War 2014-04-18T21:33:16Z

The result is this lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study. New & Noteworthy, From Harold Bloom to the Women of Congress 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Polenzani sang this haunting aria of remembrance with wondrous lyrical tenderness while conveying the music’s gently swaying gait. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

He was attentive to the singers, almost overly so, during lyrical passages in which some expressive freedom was called for. Review: Third Tenor’s Not Quite a Charm in the Met’s ‘Roméo’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

On the way up, however, Sting had found his lyrical voice. Sting, the tireless troubadour

Described as "beautifully-written and lyrical", they were written in the summer of 1969 while the Rolling Stones singer was in Australia. Jagger love letters up for sale 2012-11-12T11:28:18Z

But the earlier symphony had already reached epic proportions, so Mahler built a less ambitious lyrical symphony around that song. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Bridgers’s lyrical talent was evident on her 2017 debut, “Stranger in the Alps,” which had a few perfect songs but as a whole sometimes felt muted, languid and downcast. Phoebe Bridgers Wants to Believe 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wuorinen is more effective when he cuts the density of the music to allow the lovers some lyrical breathing room, as when they spend a forlorn but passionate night in a seedy motel. Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ the Opera, Falls Short of Its Potential 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

White, ruffled tunics and leotards by Rosalida Medina completed the company’s whimsical display of turning torsos, lyrical lifts and statuesque stances. Moves After Dark dancers turn the Grand Park fountain (and more) into a splashy stage 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

They spout lyrical tangents describing their impressions or zoom into dazzling riffs that reveal the playwright’s comic gifts. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stop Talking To Me 2010-10-21T17:37:00Z

Várjon caressed odd, syncopated chords in the lyrical opening movement, added ethereal touches within the heaven-storming march and masterfully built fugue-like passages, blooming from the depths of the keyboard, in the final Allegro. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

One of the elements of the play was a poem, Roman Wall Blues; a lyrical exploration of the loneliness of the Roman border soldier posted to the edge of the world. Free download of rediscovered Britten and Auden song 2013-07-15T17:08:35Z

In addition to these many perspectives, a “chorus” interjects lyrical commentary on the action. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Us Against You” takes a lyrical look at how a community heals, how families recover and how individuals grow. Review | Fredrik Backman returns to Beartown in ‘Us Against You’ 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

In the first part especially, Chung's economical, almost languid-looking conducting held the primeval and the lyrical sides of the score in perfect balance. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z

It's pretty enough, of course, but there is something a little bleached, a little bloodless about Alpin's version; a Twilight rendering of the song, its focus seeming to fall on atmosphere rather than lyrical content. The Power of Love: a magical hit in which the secular and the spiritual entwine 2012-11-15T20:00:00Z

Despite his abundance of lyrical talent, we’ll be sure not to mistake him for some effete literary type. What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

This album might not be The Antlers edgiest, but nevertheless, it’s amazing to see all the lyrical and musical puzzle pieces fall perfectly into place. Antlers, fully mature now, to play Neumos | Concert preview 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Regina King won the supporting actress trophy for her role in the lyrical art film “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Oscars 2019: ‘Green Book’ Is Best Picture; Rami Malek and Olivia Colman Win 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

For moments of historic context and lyrical power, I keep returning to the poem “Inheritance: Spinning Noose Clears Its Throat,” by Phillip B. Williams. The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mixing lyrical thinking and rigorous technology in works both fantastical and functional, the designers entice viewers to stop, look, and ultimately reflect on our relationship to time. AD Innovator: Humans Since 1982 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Phoenix sounds like a film score, the exuberant title track includes an unnecessary school choir, while the thoughtful and lyrical Rosie is another reminder of Niebla's exquisite guitar work. Eduardo Niebla: My Gypsy Waltz ? review 2011-01-13T23:30:01Z

Often, he describes books with evocative, one-sentence endorsements; “The Maias,” for example, is “a very satisfying juxtaposition of the beautiful, lyrical landscape and the vile actions of a family.” Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The song's lyrical undercutting of its beautiful tune worked as well as ever: A charmed audience, quietly singing along, clearly felt the same way about Merritt, as he gave them the evening's finest moment. The Magnetic Fields charm Neptune crowd 2012-03-20T17:56:08Z

Yet there are long stretches of pliant, lyrical Italianate melodic lines, sung with melting beauty by the impressive soprano Tony Arnold, who also easily navigated every vocal leap with uncanny precision. Music Review: Elliott Carter Memorial at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-01-15T22:48:02Z

But its lyrical premise is pointed and potent: Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song in the voice of a delusional young mass shooter, dreaming of glory and infamy: The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Better to do what the Guggenheim did with its centennial exhibition in 2006: pick one David Smith — in the Guggenheim’s case, a lyrical Abstract Expressionist — and run with him. Art Review: ?David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-13T22:17:25Z

Now people think it has some more lyrical, metaphorical meaning. Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in ‘Pretend It’s a City’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Many were captured in single takes following Mr. Downie’s daily lyrical exercises by the lake. Gord Downie, a Canadian Rock Legend, Sings Goodbye 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Selma’s reveries are indicated merely by little ariosos in a lyrical style that halfheartedly evokes early Bernstein. Music Review: A von Trier Tragedy, Recast as Opera 2011-07-31T21:40:49Z

Ms. Mason comes from “So You Think You Can Dance,” and her mode of expression — rooted in lyrical yearning — seeped into the show. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z

In it, Mr Mojo Risin' himself is waxing lyrical, clearly under the impression that words of pure poetry and enlightenment are dripping from his Dionysian tongue. The Doors are as respect-worthy as MC5 2010-04-05T10:06:00Z

More startling lyrical depth from Spencer Krug, who inspects life's darker corners. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

And too often she fell into the trap of slowing down for “lyrical” episodes in fast movements. Engaging D.C. debut from young Chinese pianist 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

He brought his ever-impressive intensity and urbane lyrical polish to sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

I grew up in the countryside, and I explored the woods with my best friend, and we played pranks, so it was exploring an innocent childhood with cruel and lyrical elements. Short films, big Oscar hopes: Inside 4 Academy Award contenders for Best Live Action short 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

The stormy minimalism of “Don’t Say a Word” or the conflictive Southwestern beats of “My Blood” stir up urgent waters and exercise Goulding’s vocal strengths earlier on, overshadowing much of the lyrical nature within. Ellie Goulding's Halcyon is Catchy Catharsis 2012-10-09T15:00:25Z

He’s rallied a devout legion of followers, many of them Latino kids in the United States who connect with his stripped-back songs and lyrical millennial moping. Cuco went from nerdy kid to indie-music hero — and shattered Latino stereotypes in the process 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Reed based his lyrical narrative on two plays written by German playwright Frank Wedekind. “People enjoy talking sh*t”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett defends “Lulu,” the band’s daring and notorious Lou Reed album 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

The challenge is to support the singers, allowing them expressive freedom to bend lyrical phrases while maintaining an undulant gait. Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

Even when she shapes midrange lyrical phrases and soars up to high passages with soprano-like radiance, the sound still somehow emanates from those awesome low tones. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The next morning, Mr. Menconi drove us to the bus station and we took off for Charlotte, the next destination on Mr. Berry’s lyrical map. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

His second-act duet with Mr. Lomelí — one of Donizetti’s most irresistibly lyrical creations — was a highlight, a testament to City Opera’s storied and continuing success introducing the city to young, promising singers. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z

"He didn't go into the context so much, or the lyrical ideas. But we had a sense of what he was looking for and had free reign to experiment." Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ballamy emerged as a soloist in a lyrical class of his own during his time with the Loose Tubes big band. This week's new live music 2013-01-19T06:00:03Z

There are some almost lyrical reminiscences in those parts of the interview. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

In those psalm settings the piano lines are often spare but lyrical, and Mr. Spiri brought to the part, and to the entire evening, warmth, clarity and supple phrasing. Music Review: Bernarda Fink at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-18T22:23:06Z

It was a popular lyrical theme in R&B in the early seventies, the newlywed period for my parents. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

He likes to deploy a similar tactic after completing a dizzying run of syllables, marveling at his own lyrical agility in square blurts: “Sheesh!” Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

He also composed "Rachmaniana," a lyrical suite for piano solo, which is on the new disc. Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Dayton, Ohio indie lifers — known for their concise pop craftsmanship, surrealist lyrical slant, lo-fi production tactics, and sheer output — play Seattle’s Showbox club Sunday. Guided by Voices back in business | Concert preview 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Love and all its splendor — and peril — is a major lyrical touchstone on Lopez's new album. Jennifer Lopez, at peace with herself 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Both are lyrical improvisers by nature, but they leaned on each other here, pushing for discovery. Music Review: Setting Leadership Aside For Collective Control 2011-01-14T23:24:00Z

Effortlessly lyrical and very subtle, Baltacigil made a lot of points with an elegant pianissimo, well supported by Morlot and the orchestra. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

It was 2009 and we were supposed to be at a dinner for the Los Angeles opening of her documentary “The Beaches of Agnès,” a lyrical ramble through her life. The Agnès Varda I Knew: Showing Women Their Real Place in Movies 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

On this striking album — as on his excellent recent EP, “Downtown: Life Under the Gun” — Mr. Alsina is a ruminative, no-holds-barred songwriter, and his tormented upbringing provides most of the lyrical grist. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z

But the comedian Jerrod Carmichael breathes new life into the paradigm with this lyrical and restrained special, in which he comes out as gay and explores his fraught relationship with his family. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The kooche-bazaari he loves is a fun, danceable style, though the primary lyrical theme is broken hearts along the lines of classic American country music. Iranians pump up the volume for banned tunes 2013-05-07T13:46:41Z

Their style is a worldview in itself; they recreate the cinema in their own image, which is a comprehensively lyrical vision of the world. A Star Is Born: Josephine Decker 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Plan B Ill Manors Atlantic It's a bullish defence of a bullish musical and lyrical shift, not so much a reinvention as a reiteration. Plan B: Ill Manors – review 2012-07-19T14:29:01Z

Intensity and agitation waxed and waned throughout the ruggedly lyrical 11-minute work; at times Mr. Patkolo assumed the higher voice in dialogues as Ms. Mutter plummeted in response. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z

Written during a particularly trying period, its overcast songs largely deal with loss and heartbreak on several fronts, getting personal and political with just the right amount of open-armed lyrical ambiguity. Black Belt Eagle Scout pushes for representation with intrinsically Northwest indie rock 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The lyrical power and blend of humor and feeling will keep it in high rotation as long as there are orchestras to play it. As NSO returns from tour, the program is more tired than the musicians 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Later, I would ask him about his relationship to Dylan’s lyrical genius: What did these words mean to him, then and now? Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I don’t regard the poem as a lyrical extension of my personality, as a stream of ectoplasm issuing from one’s psyche,” he told The Washington Post in 1999. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Yet these and the other pictures, whether on paper or canvas, are largely abstract and unfailingly lyrical. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Here, waxing of both board and lyrical varieties combine for a north Devon fixture that's sun-kissed in spirit, even if not in actuality. This week's new events 2012-06-08T23:05:32Z

It thrives on the performance of flawless maximal authenticity and lyrical supremacy. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cojocaru was her radiant, transcendently lyrical self in the Rose Adagio, but without the context of the full ballet, the excerpt felt entirely arbitrary. Dance Review: Couples? Affair, Business Edition 2011-05-17T23:40:15Z

The new sound reinforces Eminem's lyrical dominance and presents a clearer vision of his potential as a mature artist. Eminem, clean and sober, draws on new inspiration 2010-06-25T23:23:00Z

I tried to modulate across the book so that more lyrical essays bumped up against starker prose-poem-ish studies of people or geographies. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

But the music is carried by lyrical, melodic stretches in the violins. Review: A Mariachi Opera Addresses Roiling Issues of Immigration 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The larger installation, “Black Box,” is a dark yet almost lyrical indictment of colonialism, with wrenching use made of drawings, vintage film of white hunters and of mechanized puppets that move with eerie resonance. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z

The anthem made Jimi famous worldwide, veering into a vortex out of which emerged "Purple Haze", a glorious, lyrical dirge – for something, for everything; an endpiece not only to Woodstock but to so many dreams. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

Other than that, the monumental but unsubtle portrait does not live up to the lyrical praise lavished upon it by Christie’s experts. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z

Hill placed a Cherokee syllabary character above each column to spread awareness of the lyrical language. At the U.S. Open, 5 Artists Get a Place in the Sun 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Known for their gritty brand of rock, The Kills meshed their signature alternative sounds with the lyrical stylings of Rihanna when they released a cover of the Barbadian pop star’s “Desperado” Wednesday. The Kills Give Rihanna's 'Desperado' a Mellow Makeover 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Bruce, whose “Ten Poems,” with Scottish Ballet, is at the Joyce Theater this week, combines aspects of acted-out illustration with metric urgency and lyrical expansiveness: His dances become a frame to the words. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

“Oh Shining Star Testify,” an installation by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme on three large screens, is lyrical and dramatic, the projected images broken up by stacked boards that create a kind of stage set. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

She already had this incantatory, lyrical, chanting way of talking, all she needed was a little shove. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

“The fact there is such lyrical similarity, and the fact the snare drum comes in when this message comes in, just feels very invasive,” Mr. Scally said. A British Volkswagen Ad Sounds Like Beach House 2012-06-07T22:20:38Z

His theology was dubious but his writing could be lyrical. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The thing about Eurythmics music is that there was a kind of surreal, existential twist in the lyrical content and also in some of the ways that we presented ourselves. Q&A with Annie Lennox: Why the singer doesn’t listen to music 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s really hard to do this because people have to have a lyrical sense,” Doyle said. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

There are softly chiming gongs and ethereal winds, lyrical and sinuous strings and sympathetic, Romantic orchestral surges. Music Review: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You?re a Youngster With Issues 2011-06-30T20:57:46Z

He waxed lyrical with a romanticized view of American politics, depicting it as an arena in which the loftiest small-d democratic ideals were brought to vivid life through glorious combat. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

The book is also a gold mine for Costello obsessives who have spent decades dissecting and analyzing his every lyrical zinger. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

McCarthy avoids explicit mention of the towers in his less lyrical end, but the closing section of “Satin Island” evokes O’Neill’s passage strongly. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Maloof is the author, with nature photographer Robert Llewellyn, of a new book about the Eastern deciduous forest, “The Living Forest,” which marries her lyrical text with his images. An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

His ardently lyrical voice had a heroic edge but was wonderfully expressive. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z

But above all, it’s a confident and lyrical story with an intimate understanding of the sort of characters who are too often used as decoration in the Bada Bings of antihero drama. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

That Mr. Ridley is also a writer of uncommon, lyrical delicacy may sound like a contradiction. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

There are a lot of lyrical questions on the record as well. On life, death and love, Savages offer no easy answers: “To keep the ambiguity and the tension has been an intention” 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

As their silent glances turn into lyrical exchanges, beautifully sung by Leonard and D’Angelo, these young people truly seem like the answers to one another’s dreams. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Adds Stardust to the Met Opera’s Holiday 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

That formula is a great track, great lyrical content. TLC's Chilli on Kickstarting a Comeback in the Twitter Age 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The lyrical lines unfolded with soaring energy, and she surmounted the technical challenges with aplomb. Review: Baiba Skride Wrestles Bartok’s Art of Darkness 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The plot has legs, and Locke’s blues-infused idiom lends a strain of melancholy to her lyrical style. The Best Crime Novels of 2017 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

This is the most lyrical of the three Brünnhildes. Nina Stemme: 'I am always questioning myself – could it be better?' 2013-05-02T12:51:45Z

This carefully drawn, lyrical debut approaches memoir from another angle. Delving Into the Bipolar Mind 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

That tallies with how Wretch 32 thinks of himself: as the rapper's rapper, someone who trades on solid lyrical skills rather than flashy gimmicks – a Nas, not a Busta Rhymes. Wretch 32: Black and White ? review 2011-08-18T14:30:00Z

And those lyrical reflections are counterbalanced by searing recollections, as when Little Dog overhears his mother at the sink whispering to herself: “I’m not a monster. I’m a mother.” Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Even when casting a cold eye on our current anomie, she’s never less than lyrical, concocting mash-ups of outrage and celebration, archaic decorum and unbuttoned plainness. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The novel is lyrical, absorbing, so accurate as to the ways we resist engagement and then are pulled in. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Jones believed the band played best based off lyrical content, and that the instrumentals were throwing them off, “So if he could give us something to visualize, we’d play better,” Hood said. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

This lyrical exploration of mortality and survival included oral histories that Mr. Jones, who had been open about being H.I.V. positive, collected in workshops from people facing life-threatening illnesses. It Was ‘Cool Central’: Bill T. Jones Leads a Trip Through His Archive 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Jensen and Treseler reinterpret nine of Wheeler’s compositions, which tend to be lyrical and songlike, whether moving at a quick clip or drifting as slowly as cloud cover. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The next day, Dr. Mechanik sent Mr. Westenberger another email, this one more inimical than lyrical, the words not so much tugging at his heart strings as much as they just tore. Case of Mistaken Identity (He Wasn’t a Con Man) 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

If you think they’re an overrated power trio whose occasional lyrical lunkheadedness is unjustly overlooked, there’s also nothing here that will change your mind. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Those lines are as good as any at representing what Malone is working with on a lyrical level. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

In the end, Fargo turned out to be a more lively, majestic, lyrical reimagining of the movie than we could have expected. RECAP: Fargo Watch: Like a Good Neighbor 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The contours are smooth, the textures mostly clear and lyrical, but turbulent and troubled, too. Williams/Doric Quartet 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z

The series is lyrical in its fleeting visions of the children’s shattered lives and deadeningly prosaic in its deconstruction of how those lives were shattered. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

A lyrical and fragmented treatment of a real-life espionage case, the drama explores gender, race and power. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Brakhage is often described as a lyrical filmmaker but his can be a most disquieting, even violent, form of lyricism. Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

When he was writing his first novel he spent his whole time thinking "how can I make this sentence more lyrical?" Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z

Even by Russian standards, this lyrical road movie is a strange world of its own. This week's new films 2012-06-22T23:05:59Z

A monologue — spoken in Italian with English supertitles — finds Ms. Calderoni making lyrical statements about the inadequacy of the vocabulary we have to work with. Review: Shedding Skins in Motus’s Genre-Blurring ‘MDLSX’ at La MaMa 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

But the Israel Chamber Orchestra is going further, performing Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, the lyrical 20-minute symphonic piece he wrote for his wife Cosima. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

He brought understated expressiveness to the lyrical flights of the first movement and played passagework with crispness and élan. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z

The 13 selections, with fresh, big-band arrangements, include classics like the lyrical “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” and the irresistible saxophone showcase “Put Down the Duckie.” 7 Albums for Kids That Adults Will Want to Hear, Too 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

He drew blazing playing from the orchestra, which contrasted with the dreamy beauty of the lyrical midsection. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, Rollins’s lyrical, buoyant playing established him as one of the most respected tenor saxophonists in jazz history. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Berselius has a lyrical sensibility, though it seems to have abandoned him when it came time to design the main dining room. At Aska, a Nordic Chef’s Vision Bears Fruit (and Lichens) 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

For the most part, though, 2 Chainz doesn’t withstand close lyrical scrutiny. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z

Acrobats, trapeze artists, an aerial pole dancer of sorts, and even a one-legged hoofer, all in costumes sometimes bedecked in LED lights, provide the intermittently lyrical moments. Theater Review: ?Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour,? Cirque du Soleil 2012-04-02T22:12:15Z

His singing was radiant, ardently lyrical and full of tenorial ping. Music Review: Bold ?Trovatore,? Inspired by Goya 2010-10-27T23:23:00Z

The music of this misshapen masterpiece, variously martial, lyrical, melodic and thrilling, gleams and blazes then occasionally gutters to a mere flicker. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z

Still, she sang it with lyrical grace and touching directness. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z

“The language was a bit self-conscious and overly lyrical,” she said over lunch at a restaurant on Chipping Campden’s main street. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

In 1956 she was invited to join the Paris Opera Ballet as the first American étoile, the highest rank in the company, commanding classical repertoire with her exhilarating control and lyrical stage presence. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

There are some well-made choral passages, but the arias are generically lyrical and the story weak. Music Review: Melodramatic Sounds of Young Love 2011-05-25T22:22:09Z

The conductor Franz Welser-Möst drew out every lushly lyrical strand of Strauss’s teeming and volatile score, played brilliantly by the Vienna Philharmonic. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

There was plenty of fire in Mr. Ax’s playing, though he brought silken sound to the wistfully lyrical middle section of the first scherzo and magisterial beauty to the contrasting episode of the third. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

And it also got to hear how ingratiatingly lyrical the middle section can be when fully acoustical. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

She nudges the English to give it a Cuban tone, respectful of the brutal efficiency of Mr. Padura’s Spanish, while never sacrificing the lyrical flourishes with which he occasionally bedazzles his readers. Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z

Tchaikovsky not only wrote the music, but adapted his own libretto from Pushkin’s 1833 novel, a lyrical examination of love’s cross-purposes among the Russian gentry. Seattle Opera’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is fine but could offer so much more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

All the works could be described as “intensely lyrical when not intensely furious.” Music Review: Program by the Book: Orchestral Colors? Check. Solo Showcase? Check. 2011-03-27T23:30:19Z

But this production makes it clear that what we’re hearing is a story, told with both urgency and lyrical affection, in which what’s remembered acquires mythic status. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z

Some of this work can be as lyrical as Lee’s. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

The main attraction, apart from some lovely, lyrical moments by Paunika Jones in the pas de deux and the sight of six elated girls from the Brooklyn Ballet Youth Ensemble, were the costumes. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z

I was also moved by Schaap’s exceptional writing, which manages to be lyrical and whimsical, yet unsentimental. Stormy Fairy Tales 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

But Seeger pulls it off with lyrical charm, while also offering an oh-so-subtle environmental message. Picture books for summer break 2012-06-09T02:01:04Z

In all three works, episodes of crushing sonic violence coexist with oases of serene lyrical beauty for an overall sense of smoldering, luxuriant noise — a plangent yet gorgeous howl. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

A high lyrical Aria for the violin follows with accompaniment from the lowest strings, and it ends with a lively Gigue. British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z

The Estonian Mati Turi was her Siegfried, gratifyingly, at his most endearing and lyrical in his last big sing before death. Götterdämmerung – review 2012-07-20T13:24:10Z

After all, though she provided fodder for the gossip columns and the morally outraged, Winehouse also brought something remarkable to the music world, a tarry, beetle-black voice and lyrical humour. Amy Winehouse: only now can we glimpse her legacy 2012-07-19T19:30:02Z

Her voice, while radiant and creamy, especially in extended lyrical passages and the compelling spans of recitative, seldom soared into the house. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z

Here, for an instant, he seems like all dedicated pianists, trying hard to bring clarity, a particular touch, lyrical shape or rhythmic bite, to a phrase. 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Jay-Z is considered the lyrical marksman and veteran of hip-hop, but he hasn't appealed to the multiple audiences that West has. Poll: Who's best? Jay-Z or Kanye West 2012-05-18T11:35:20Z

On the track “Rhapsody,” you can hear Hemphill’s alertness on soprano saxophone, as Wadud switches between thick, strummed playing and lyrical bowing. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Sondheim's lyrical and musical output following "West Side Story" presented complex characters of all types, and his works have singularly elevated the Broadway diva more than any other composer/lyricist in the past 70 years. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Another Beethoven fragment seesaws wistfully and devolves — a reminder of Adams’s minimalist roots — giving way to sudden flashes of lyrical ardor. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

No honorary title, this role keeps him busy bringing a lyrical bent to multiple civic events and collaborating with artists from other disciplines. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Also packs surprising emotional/lyrical weight A band that have been around since 1983, split in the late 90s but are back together and still touring. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z

As bravura pianism, the performance was brilliant and told much, though it gave little idea how Mr. Zhou might fare in more lyrical or Romantic fare. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The images are never quite untethered from the real, and Smith, despite her structural detouring, can’t quite escape some semblance of Realism, can’t discard her innate lyrical gifts. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Ingrid Craigie plays Hannah with a coolness that suits her combative scenes with Bernard more than the lyrical moments in which Valentine shyly tries to woo her with the beauty of iterative algorithms. Arcadia 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z

The story behind Farewell to Stromness, his intensely sad and lyrical solo piano piece. Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies - review 2011-07-16T05:00:01Z

Mr. Wilson’s greatest strength wasn’t his lyrical way with words, which could occasionally cloy, but his infectious, sincere appreciation for the unexpected heat within lost and wayward lives. An Appraisal: Lanford Wilson?s Losers, Beloved by Their Creator 2011-03-25T07:50:16Z

His playing was both broadly lyrical and explosively energetic.” 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

Beginning with the second set of Impromptus, Ax showed how even the most unassuming arpeggio or bass-line progression draws its expressive qualities from Schubert's inexhaustible lyrical flow. Emanuel Ax ? review 2011-03-23T17:43:10Z

Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. Hilton Als Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

That reckoning is expressed in some of Shakespeare’s most lyrical and psychologically insightful verse. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z

It will be an emotional, beautiful and lyrical piece. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z

In recounting these times, Gordon demonstrates poet’s gift for lyrical compression: Compared with Los Angeles, she writes, “New York was a jumble, all colors, shapes, angles, altitudes.” Life on the cutting edge: Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl in a Band’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Few could argue for Maxwell's lyrical subtly, but he gave the crowd exactly what it came for -- except new music. BET 2014: Maxwell, Jill Scott offer love and desire at Staples Center 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

He’s lyrical when he dreams about his future with George and the rabbits and chickens, but his outbursts are dramatic and heavy. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

A teacher of mathematics at Olympic College in Bremerton and Shelton, Mason County, writes "a secular, satirical thrill ride, in which all humanity's glories and vanities can be seen in one lyrical, hypocritical microcosm." Washington state's Gov. Booth Gardner is subject of new biography 2010-06-28T23:20:00Z

But this number, in which adult Allison struggles to connect with her gay dad, is a master class in musical dramatization and lyrical compression. 5 Key Songs From Jeanine Tesori’s Songbook 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

You have to draw a line somewhere, and lyrical references to carpet burns and toe-sucking are further than the average septuagenarian, born-again Christian rock goddess might be expected to go. SummerTyne Americana – review 2012-07-24T17:45:01Z

Still, on this night he also revealed a lyrical, reflective side. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Sheeran does his best with these tracks, and his voice shines as it twists around his own guitar and Pharrell’s beats, but ultimately his sale of the lyrical material at hand falls short. REVIEW: Ed Sheeran Multiplies His Appeal on x 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

“It’s more lyrical and more personal because he is thinking about his own fate.” Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her mother, it turned out, had a knack for poetry that matched her daughter's lyrical gifts. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

She wasn't one for waxing lyrical about things, whereas if I like stuff, I gush like an oil well, but between us we almost always came to the right conclusion about everything and everyone. The Kate McGarrigle I knew, by British singer-songwriter Linda Thompson 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

Some of the virtuoso guitar work — cascading, palpitating, lyrical sounds conjured into the air by guitarists Salva de Maria and Eugenio Iglesias — was breathtaking. With Noche Flamenca, Juan Ogalla brings a flaunting fierceness to Wolf Trap

For them performance and exteriority are central to their self-presentation, far more so than any lyrical message. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z

Elizabeth Harper’s lighting and Tom Ontiveros’ dreamlike projections, a mixture of photographs and line drawings, economically establish time and place, leaving us free to focus on the lyrical, authentic dialogue. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

At his core, he remains a storyteller who refuses to let his lyrical style overwhelm the narrative substance of his plots. Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z

The setup had all the ingredients of one of those lyrical French films starring Gérard Depardieu, replete with lavish interiors and rhapsodic landscapes looping through the changing seasons. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

But despite the urgent subject matter and lyrical touches, it’s a film that needs further layers of complication and texture. Review: ‘Evaporating Borders’ Examines the Immigrant Crisis in Cyprus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

On last year’s “Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies,” the third album she has released under her current stage name, Aalegra’s understated vocals resemble a protracted sigh, befitting her lyrical reflections on romantic disappointment. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The program also includes his lyrical “Written on Water.” Dance Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

"The colors are amazing, the message is very lyrical and clear." Falun Gong, banned in China, finds a loud protest voice in the U.S. through Shen Yun dance troupe 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Little melodic fragments, and a recurring major-seventh leap, emerge pointillistically, never quite developing into a lyrical line but giving an attenuated sense of a lyrical instinct underneath the shimmer. Review | With aerialists, ribbons and Copland, the Shift festival begins 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Climbing on all fours over a daybed, the eloquent, lyrical bass Matthew Rose conveys in an instant the essential childishness of Wotan, the king of the gods. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

The lyrical palette of pistachio and fuchsia has Michele’s handwriting, but the way ideas and moods ebb and flow below the surface without necessarily being spoken out loud is pure Van Sant. Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Cons: Complex, lyrical historical fiction may not have the necessary mass appeal. How a Book Becomes the Book of the Summer 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In the first movement, Mr. Frost played the dreamy melody with a mellow sound that subtly permeated the hall, while Mr. Mawe brought lyrical grace to the undulant piano part. Review: Martin Frost, Clarinet Virtuoso, Dazzles as He Dances 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Levine got lyrical: “Love is this crazy thing and it’s beautiful and blissful and happy and wonderful, but it’s also brutal and painful and excruciating at times,” he said in the show’s last seconds. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

ZOFO’s arrangement loses some of the lyrical quality but little of the original’s manic intensity. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Buchanan’s lyrical first novel, Yuki, a sensitive and lonely teenager, has persuaded her parents to let her remain in New York to pursue a career as an artist when they return to Japan. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Taste” stands out among the cookbooks of its time: It’s seasonal in its organization, lyrical in its prose, precise in its instructions and subversive in its politics. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The deepest and most lyrical monologue was a fantasized reflection on a lonely Hollywood woman at Christmas spun around an image of a tearful Caitlyn Jenner gazing out to sea in Malibu. Review: In ‘Feel the Bernhard,’ Sandra Feels Less Menacing 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

He brought welcome breadth to the lyrical Allemande and the soulful Sarabande. Music Review: Conceptually Challenging in Familiar Repertory 2011-03-06T22:46:11Z

She also brought on Seattle guitarist Bill Frisell to fashion finely wrought and lyrical solos on a couple of numbers. Mavis and Bonnie show powerful musical sisterhood at the Chateau 2012-09-09T19:46:04Z

The prose is lyrical – if a little over-baked in places – and the inner life of Diony is rendered with a Woolf-like intensity, raising the novel high above the clichés of its genre. The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts – review 2012-11-27T14:08:30Z

Mad about the Boy is a lyrical yet gritty tale of a teenager going off the rails at Contact in Manchester from Tuesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-22T15:56:03Z

The sound was melodic, unexpected and timeless: a lyrical coda to a day spent on the gong highway. Thailand’s ‘Gong Highway’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

My favorite was “Shepherd Boy,” with its achingly sad melody, a series of descending lyrical phrases that actually seem to sigh. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

For example, in medieval Spain, the Troubadour poets borrowed their lyrical beauty from Arabic. Arts, culture are missing in the teaching of Islam 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Costello, perhaps, was not forgiven by the music press who wanted him to stay forever as a kind of lyrical punk agitator and not go off to write for string quartets. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z

For example, a facsimile of a knife-throwing wall transforms into a starry backdrop for a lyrical musical number. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

As the orchestra played the chortling opening theme, alive with woodwinds, Wang almost sneaked into the fray with a subtly lyrical rendering of the piano’s quizzical lines. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

And yet there is a mismatch at times between Larsen's lyrical style and the sometimes frightening stories he's trying to incorporate. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Relax” is their most polished work, but for an act that thrives on purposeful fumbling and ostentatious displays of lyrical density, polish is not always an advantage. Music Review: Das Racist in a Concert Focused on ?Relax,? Its First Album - Review 2011-09-13T22:15:34Z

At the same time Mr. Cardenas has a lyrical streak that evokes Pat Metheny, notably on a peripatetic piece like the new album’s title track, which appeared early in the first set. Music Review: At Jazz Standard, Steve Cardenas?s Flinty Spine 2010-06-02T21:55:00Z

Three of the string players were joined by the pianist Bishara Harouni for Mahler's Quartet Movement in A minor, and they enjoyed its muscular, lyrical romanticism. Berlin Philharmonic residency ? review 2011-02-21T00:54:14Z

But the book doesn’t quite achieve lyrical status, although it tries very hard. An Indian boy’s mysterious musical gift 2013-02-14T23:37:04Z

Embodied by Eddie Redmayne, the title character of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” is seated, eyes closed, in full view of the audience before the start of Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s lyrical history play. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z

Along with his distinctive voice and disarming performance, the lyrical themes portray an authentic troubadour recording signs of difficult times with a gloomy nostalgia for bygone eras. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

The setups are clumsy and lyrical subtlety is effectively banished. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

She captured their sense of play in lyrical images hanging now in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Brussels galleries. Jessica Hilltout Captures Africans? Love of Soccer 2010-07-07T22:10:00Z

Their differences belie a shared taste for juxtaposed extremes of volume and pitch; jittery, unsettled melodies; and flirtations with noise that never entirely forestall the possibility of what might be called old-fashioned lyrical beauty. Review: International Contemporary Ensemble and Others Play in Brooklyn 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Smith and Wallace both come up against the new, worried that it’s impossible to build solid novels, let alone the future, with lyrical realism’s rusty old tools. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Each story is told by a young narrator, and Franco locates the adolescent voice by stripping back his prose and keeping lyrical flights to a minimum. Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z

He's much longer-lined and fluid by the time he gets to the Latin-flavoured The Rent; the penultimate Whammies is a guttural-toned whirl; and Lacy encores on a lyrical account of Monk's Reflections. Steve Lacy: November 2010-06-10T22:29:00Z

The con moto movement of the Sonata in D major, D850, by turns gently lyrical and passionate, found Lewis at his compelling best, realising Schubert's song-like nature and, with it, some of the heartbreak. Paul Lewis ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:17Z

A lyrical, even ethereal sculptural poem to disembodied flight, "Ode to Santos Dumont" can easily be seen as a melancholic but fully reconciled song from an artist who knew that mortality was approaching. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Stephen Savage's striking linocut illustrations wonderfully underscore the book's lyrical simplicity. Kids' books: 7 new picture books starring Dad 2010-06-11T00:47:00Z

Pop fizzed with a luminous effervescence as it mixed with international club culture and postmodern lyrical conceits. The Olympics closing ceremony proves we're still stuck in the 90s 2012-08-14T11:46:24Z

Set to Ravel's Bolero, and perfectly reflecting its slightly absurd heroics, leads us through a lyrical catalogue of the athletic disciplines. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z

The ensemble’s rendition of the Borodin quartet enhanced its lyrical and sometimes nostalgic elements without veering into sentimentality. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z

“Children of Hiroshima,” commissioned by the Japan Teachers Union and based on a compilation of testimonies by a university professor, Arata Osada, combines documentary naturalism with lyrical and frankly sentimental passages. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z

Mr. Aucoin shows respect for the tender, charming words by setting them to somber music of lyrical pining over restless orchestral stirrings. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

To write “Madame Bovary,” Flaubert had to abandon the “recklessness” of his early, lyrical work. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Nat Turner in Jerusalem” is perhaps best regarded as an earnest, gravely lyrical gloss on a document that will surely always evoke passionate and widely different responses. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The saucy strut of "Be My Girl" with its innocent chorus, when wrapped in Cullen's disaffected singing and naughtier lyrical turns, became deliciously dirty. Smith Westerns show youthful swagger at Empty Bottle 2011-02-27T16:40:00Z

Mr. Sanchez-Werner supplied plenty of technique and an occasional excess of muscle, but he was most impressive, perhaps, in quiet moments, sensitive and lyrical. Review: A Rising Conductor Makes Her New York Debut 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

For such a gritty subject, the writing is unexpectedly lyrical, elevating the drama of one boy's life into the tragedy of the many whose potential is thrown away before they reach adulthood. Mad About the Boy – review 2012-06-07T17:00:02Z

“Biopic” is a clumsy word for a prosaic genre, and screen biographies of writers are more apt to be literal than lyrical. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Muti rendered their duets as safe spaces of lyrical expansion, without the pace ever seeming to flag. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The program continued with Williams’s “Five Mystical Songs,” with the baritone soloist Michael Nyby lyrical and able, if at times a little pale, in the solo line. Review | Strong new piece helps cathedral chorus close challenging season with a flourish 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Barker’s is the first entry, and it’s hard to imagine a more lyrical beginning: Giving a Great Jazz Storyteller His Due 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Howard delivers the poetry in handsome tones of lyrical woe, but Mr. Sexton might, at least, have lessened the absurdity by having Marcus cradle the suffering young woman in his arms. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

This record was way more about melody and less about lyrical content. Black Keys and their 'rocketship to the moon' 2012-03-12T02:13:00Z

The role requires extensive speaking as well as lyrical and dramatic sung passages, which Mr. Degout delivered in a rich, jammy tone. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

I'm looking for lyrical references, praise, blame, celebrations and condemnations, tributes and raspberries. Readers recommend songs about the Beatles 2010-09-30T23:00:00Z

The Cello Concerto includes musical gestures toward Clara Schumann, the composer’s wife, including a kind of dialogue between two cellos representing the spouses in the lyrical second movement. Berlioz ‘Symphonie fantastique’ at SSO on Feb. 13, 15 2014-02-06T22:34:39Z

The lyrical rejoinder was a reminder that we were heading south. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

Some have been surprised to learn that this musical form is all about lyrical dexterity, about elevating vernacular speech into rhyming, rapid-fire verse. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The lyrical lines of the recording were colorfully juxtaposed with his unpredictable live interjections, improvisatory flights and pitch-bending modulations, proving Coleman’s theory that seemingly conflicting keys and patterns can prove unexpectedly compatible. Review: Malcolm Goldstein Offers a Freespirited Salute to Ornette Coleman 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

But the show had the kind of ambition and lyrical heart that TV should encourage. Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards 2012-12-26T10:45:07Z

Harrison's sonatas, which filter the Baroque through a lyrical 1930s experimentalism, are early examples of what became a multicultural West Coast sound. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Many, ranging from the lyrical “Brahms Waltzes” to the stormy and ultimately triumphant “Revolutionary,” can be seen on Thursday, her birthday. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z

Car’s soprano, with lyrical grace at the top of her range and grave urgency at the bottom, was on Sunday a wellspring of calm and pathos. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rivera sang with commitment and ardently delivered the lyrical, exuberant and agitated vocal lines. Music Review: Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence 2011-04-01T23:02:39Z

While it gives him the look of spiritual jazz players such as Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra, Washington is lyrical rather than fiery. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kim’s lyrical, harmonically luxuriant, sparsely textured song cycle, inspired by Debussy, is set to texts by Verlaine and Baudelaire. Review: Musicians From Marlboro, With Works by Mozart and Fauré 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

He had one daughter and he waxed lyrical about her from the moment we sat down at the table, throughout the three courses and on into the coffee. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Rather than unfurling long, droning phrases or centrifugal eruptions, as Coltrane often did, he insisted on compact and lyrical melodies, articulated with a crystalline touch. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Missing in action is longtime vocalist Eric Wagner, whose range and lyrical perspective built Trouble's foundation as much as its guitarists. Trouble returns to swing metal 2013-08-06T05:00:00Z

“He might have all these jazz chops, but he’ll pick the simple melody and play what needs to be there in a very lyrical way.” Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Its changeable emotions seemed to emerge organically from the five Liszt works on the first half of the program, and its lyrical impulses led sensibly into Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 at the end. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

A rollicking tenor saxophonist with his feet firmly planted in the soul-jazz tradition, Person improvises with great fluency and creativity — treating blues clichés as valid ingredients, but mixing in plenty of lyrical originality as well. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

My favorite thing about the rapper formerly known as Language Arts, now La, is how deadpan he is about his lyrical dominance. SEA music videos: Shabazz Palaces, The Physics, La 2011-09-20T17:44:05Z

Featuring a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, it is an offshoot of Atlanta-style trap and speaks to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods. Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas causing a stir 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

He brought melting legato phrasing to lyrical passages. Review: Plácido Domingo Is Gone, but He Still Haunted ‘Macbeth’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

One of his more unexpected sources is the lyrical canon of the Beatles. ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns 2011-08-29T14:30:32Z

The exquisite, lyrical stillness with which Becker imbues the performances is, in turn, matched by his fanatical physical reconstruction of the era, with costumes, styles, décor, and dialogue of a seemingly documentary specificity. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The duo concluded the first half of the program with Schumann’s meandering Sonata No. 2, a work of turbulent surges and lyrical interludes rendered here with conviction and dramatic contrast. Review: Alexi Kenney at Weill Recital Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

It is also a romantic comedy/drama whose tone ping-pongs from grave to lyrical to absurdist willy-nilly, and hits all those registers at fortissimo volume. ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Review: Finding Love Down on the Farm 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a powerful vantage point, and one that holds both the practical realities and the lyrical poignancy of 11-year-old voices in equal tension. New Novels From Three of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Authors 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Oh my goodness, just songs with certain lyrical references. Christina Aguilera Wants These Women to Record the Next 'Lady Marmalade' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Buarque is a singer-songwriter celebrated for his sophisticated musical ideas, his elegant lyrical approach and — at a number of important junctures — his courageous gestures of protest. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Hayden was an African American poet who managed, in this brief epic, to bring the slave trade into lyrical focus with a polyphony of voices. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z

In many ways, "What's Going On" reflects an extended structure of its own, with Gaye weaving an elaborate song cycle, complete with recurring musical, lyrical and spiritual themes. Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On": A listening guide 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Not necessarily specifically from the lyrical point of view. Neil Finn knows why “Don’t Dream It’s Over” feels “almost ridiculously pertinent” now: “Particularly with Donald Trump talking about building walls” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The tuxedoed Zaroff is a brittle but seemingly gracious host, eager to wax lyrical about his lifelong search for new hunting challenges and the prized Tatar war bow mounted on his wall. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

It had lyrical grace, funk, gospel crescendos and gnashing collective improvisation; it also broke out into a unaccompanied solo passages for Mr. Washington and for the drummers, Mr. Austin and Ronald Bruner. Review: Kamasi Washington’s Spiritual Circle, Looking Inward 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

He does so with a thousand details, which add to the lyrical realism of the novel. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z

There had always been darkness in his lyrical world, which is on display in “I Am the Wolf.” Mark Lanegan plays the Showbox, his favorite venue 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The tweets are brave, profound, playful, lyrical, despairing and occasionally very funny. A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

Atop and around the many direct instrumental mirrors of Mr. Dennett’s voice is a greater musical landscape that’s sometimes lyrical and lush and sometimes frisky and peppy. ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

These are wild, cacophonous pieces, but from within each a single, lyrical line shines through the welter of sound. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Riffs on Stravinsky at Weill Hall 2012-02-19T21:40:18Z

Pairing the Grieg with the Brahms offered a stark contrast in two faces of passion, one fraught and anxious, the other lyrical and serene. Violinist Ji Young Lim struts in a Phillips Collection recital 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The cello, the one instrument of the three for which Beethoven did not write a concerto, leads all three movements, and Gautier Capucon's lyrical suavity was stellar. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

She goes on in this lovely, lyrical vein before stopping abruptly to tell her client to settle his bill. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z

Schubert played off the different sonorities of winds and strings while at the same time creating unbroken lyrical phrases. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Written for Shostakovich’s son, then a 19-year-old music student, it’s frisky in its outer two movements, lyrical in its central slow movement, and altogether a delight. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z

Songs such as "Shipbuilding" – his complex, lyrical response to the Falklands war and the implications of our industrial heritage – both defined and deconstructed their era. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z

Although the first movement begins with a lyrical — even hummable — vocal line, its time signature is out of alignment with that of the piano. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Nor is he discussing the sort of classic conflicts of the soul that lyrical types like to call “the war within,” or not in any traditional way. 'War,' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s New Play 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters. ACT to stage the electrifying 'In the Next Room' by Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:32:04Z

Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters’ stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives. Books of The Times: Edwidge Danticat’s Novel ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ 2013-09-05T20:49:44Z

Beyond the rap narration, moreover, he has created a rich musical score that runs from pulsating disco to sweetly lyrical ballads and Rent-like rock anthems. Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z

District Court in Los Angeles, opined further about the lyrical description of players playing and haters hating. Lawsuit Over Lyrics in Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ Is Dismissed 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

The latter coldly illustrates a murder setup over simple thumps and taps, flexing Gates’ lyrical skills and sparing any clichéd glorification of gangsta tropes. Kevin Gates: ordinary name, extraordinary Southern rapper | Concert preview 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Where those first pieces were spiky and enigmatic, “Aureole” was fluid, expansive, athletic and lyrical. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

This is Mozart at his most searching and personal, with a symphonic weight and lyrical profundity that anticipate Beethoven. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

Yet Walker's contribution to this ensemble was nothing short of sensational, through plenty of quiet but compellingly lyrical music, as well as some postbop gallops and a spectacular roaring blues. Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker 2010-05-27T20:46:00Z

The album’s lyrical invention rivals Brian Wilson’s, though, as with the Beach Boys’, there are disturbing, broken undercurrents — which here involve James’ frantic, crippled beats. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

They are, as they proudly call themselves, “arabbers” peddlers who hawk their produce from horse-drawn carts with lyrical and sometimes comical auction calls, or “hollers.” At the Folklife Festival, arabbers peddle fruit with a musical flourish

There is a long and honorable history in America of composers adapting literary sources and crafting operas in a generally lyrical, neo-Romantic style. Five Takeaways After Seeing George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin” 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

“In its evocation of the lyrical, the comic and the tragic,” Gordon concluded, “this splendid book enlarges our imagination of the range and possibilities of love.” John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The sound of “Shriek,” all shimmer and hum, is a product of this back story, which also provides the album with a lyrical subtext. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z

Kempowski’s novel, a work of lyrical melancholy originally published in German in 2006, conjures a privileged East Prussian family who must decide whether to join the exodus. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He built a score by taking an idea — either lyrical or musical — turning it upside-down and spinning it around to reveal a different view. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Sea Inside – equal parts memoir, travelogue and nature meditation – is perhaps Hoare's most lyrical book. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z

She asks her students to draw on Dylan's lyrical account of the case to identify flaws in the prosecution's theory, find witnesses and set up parallel time lines to create an alibi for the defendant. Bob Dylan, 70 on Tuesday, oft-quoted in court 2011-05-24T04:42:05Z

One of our premier public intellectuals, Coates puts black life at the center of our understanding of the American experience with lyrical critique and political storytelling. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Popova uses the astronomer’s letters, essays and other writing to bring her strength of being and drive for knowledge to life in lyrical prose. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The author's "lyrical writing style", she went on, "is immediately charming, effortlessly taking the reader on magical flights of fancy." Tightrope walker wins £5K book prize 2014-04-03T19:27:31Z

Readers of that book and of “The White Blackbird,” her 1996 biography of her maternal grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent, will find some of the details in this ruminative, sometimes lyrical memoir familiar. For the First of 9 Children, a Quest to Understand Mother 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Their beats are infectious and these artists have true lyrical mastery. As a white parent, I solemnly swear to never do this 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The placidity was largely the province of Mr. Fresu, who plays with the lyrical concision and softly plangent tone of Miles Davis. Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

Do you think his lyrical talent is more a case of nature or nurture? Michael Rapaport on His Tribe Called Quest Documentary 2011-10-20T18:16:15Z

Meanwhile, some rare survivals of complete altarpieces in their original frames are given lyrical displays. Display of devotion: see the light at the National Gallery altar 2011-08-11T16:01:31Z

This Australian maverick loves to steer celebrated stars out of their comfort zones in implosive, bare-knuckled productions that strip the poetry from lyrical plays. 7 More Adventurous Theater Directors to Look Out For 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Much of the script is in blank verse, with a heady surfeit of expanding metaphors, lyrical soliloquies and discreetly rhymed couplets. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sound was decent, allowing the audience to savour Dylan’s lyrical brilliance. Bob Dylan and his band in fine form at Paramount 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the exhibition, Mr. Hall said, one swirl of yellow and gray forms “shows how a triangle can be sinuous and lyrical and change your perception; you don’t even realize you’re looking at triangles.” A Belated Retrospective for a Bauhaus Artist 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Over the last two years, he’s become one of the most visible voices in grime, England’s homegrown hip-hop offshoot, with a combination of lyrical aggression and personal modesty. Review: Stormzy Delivers Grime Music From Britain 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Slowly and steadily, the piece became more lyrical, with sung melodic fragments that charmingly juxtaposed lines like “our love of music” with “our favorite sandwich.” ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“No Country for Old Men” — grisly, lyrical and fleet of foot — is a blood-dark meditation on the violence that man visits upon man. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

From his serenely lyrical shaping of the opening theme, and then his lilting yet subtly restrained playing of the bouncy first variation, he approached this formidable masterpiece with unspoiled directness and sincerity. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The voice is rounder and more lyrical than when I last worked with him about 15 years ago. The Operatic Tenor Juan Diego Flórez Shifts His Tone, and His Persona 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wuorinen supplied a twist of his own, setting the piece for bass voice and tuba, and giving both performers distinctive, often lyrical lines. Music Review: The Least and the Most in a Tanglewood Series 2011-08-04T21:33:12Z

A wildly lyrical geyser of the American imagination? Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z

Download chillout anthem "Do You Have Time" here: Then at 9, the Red Bull Emsee rap battle happens at the Croc, where area rappers assert their lyrical dominance, "8 Mile"-style. Late notice: THEESatisfaction at Olympic Sculpture Park (free), Red Bull Emsee rap battle tonight 2011-07-28T16:01:04Z

Their tumultuous marriagedrives a compelling plot and illustrates the novel’s lyrical themes of freedom and transcendence, which were preoccupations of 19th-century social reformers and thinkers like the Howes. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

“It was Mark’s idea and his lyrical concepts,” Turner said. Mudhoney: After 25 years, the band is ‘now’ 2013-03-29T03:42:56Z

But all non-Disney art — conceptual, lyrical, theatrical — is not created equal. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Gemeinhart infuses the story with moments of lyrical writing and folksy wisdom served up with a dollop of girl power. When the Grown-Ups Stumble, These Kids Take Matters Into Their Own Hands 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

They achieve a lyrical immediacy that makes us feel for those children atop the train. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

There’s the quirky lullaby that Tom used to croon to his infant daughters; the lyrical compositions of Carver and Ray and an aspiringly cheerful singalong in Tom’s kitchen halfway through the show. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Gittens is not by nature a lyrical, legato performer, but she dances from the heart and with her huge, expressive eyes, and involves you from the first moment in her character's story. Swan Lake – review 2012-10-13T23:06:25Z

The prelude to the second act mingled lyrical expansion, somber brasses and a strangled stutter in the cellos; the Chicago winds these days combine artfully, their variety of textures united by their shared phrasing. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Take You To Market is only a lyrical reference to white lines away from chart dominion. New band of the day (Leon T. Pearl 1,555) 2013-07-17T14:05:00Z

I was transported from New York City by the lyrical images evoked by songs — "The Boys of Summer," "Hollywood Nights" and "Hotel California." Spring Fashion and Travel magazine: Staying power 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

But what he’s created is this wonderful poetic vision that is lyrical, evocative, learned and all the things we love about him. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z

He uses the pedal with great finesse to create a subtle lyrical flow, rather than attempt to achieve the effect of harpsichord clarity. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Joe Wilder, a lyrical trumpeter who played with some of the biggest big bands in jazz and helped integrate Broadway, radio and television orchestras, died on Friday in Manhattan. Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

However thumping and joyous Kele's new beginning, it seems that oblique lyrical pussyfooting remains his default mode. Kele Okereke 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

The pianist starts a looming octave chime in the upper register and the band fixes upon a sequence of obscured, sometimes-mucky harmonies, until he finally breaks out into a lyrical solo. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Johnson’s lyrical prose breathes life into the New York City of 200 years ago,” Marta McDowell writes in her review, and “her ambitious and entertaining book … connects past to present.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

She floated pianissimo high notes, shaped melodic lines with suppleness and dispatched coloratura runs so that they emerged as elaborations of lyrical lines, not just showy passagework. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-07T20:57:38Z

Still, I loved the lyrical nuances he brought out in the music, the clarity of his execution, and the honesty of his singing. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

A lyrical dialogue unfolded between orchestra and solo violin, whose melodic lines were expressively performed here by Daniel Andai. Music Review: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas at Alice Tully 2010-05-12T21:31:00Z

We took a broad approach and I tried to make it as lyrical as possible. The dark arts of Fox News’ Roger Ailes: “If Trump didn’t exist, Roger Ailes would have crea... 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

He produced a large Romantic tone on his Stradivarius with no forcing, a good steady command of the lyrical line in the slow movement, and just enough rambunctiousness in the famous “Turkish” passages. Hollywood Bowl closes out its classical season with satisfying, gimmick-free Mozart 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

The slow movement is tenderly lyrical, yet subtly restless. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric," a series of prose poems on the manifold ways racism manifests itself in contemporary society and burrows into black consciousness, glides down its own lyrical path with beguiling confidence. 'Citizen: An American Lyric' meditates on the trauma of racism 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Volle’s voice is compact, yet it expands for climaxes, riding Strauss’s grand, lyrical lines without too much pushing or strain. Opera Review: A Baritone Shines in Strauss Opera at the Met 2014-04-04T09:10:47Z

This may be the harshest thing that Smith says about “Netherland,” and about lyrical realism generally, suggesting, as she does, that “literary language” is a kind of covering or embroidering over of tragedy. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

At nearly eight minutes, it is also the album’s longest song, echoing the lyrical themes of stagnation and repetition. Antlers, fully mature now, to play Neumos | Concert preview 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The brooding and glimmering alternate, subsiding into a low rumble as the soloist starts a lyrical line upward. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:29:19Z

In the second, similarly, he was convincingly fast and loud and convincingly lyrical and soft, but seemed stymied by the problem of bringing those two modes together in a single emotional field. From Lang Lang, a Technicolor Take on Mozart 2014-02-05T05:00:26Z

It's direct and lyrical song-rooted jazz from a couple of relaxed experts. John Etheridge/Chris Garrick: Men on Wire | CD review 2010-03-25T22:35:00Z

In this one, the lyrical reference is straightforward: “On the Street Where You Live” is, of course, a high point in the musical “My Fair Lady,” written by Lerner and Loewe. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin described the score as having “just enough Minimalism,” but bringing “it to another, more lyrical, approach.” ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Danger and a Stranger You won’t find lyrical passages of Stravinsky in Padraig Reynolds’s “Rites of Spring,” just the dissonant sounds of kidnapping, murder and human sacrifice. Movie Review: ‘Rites of Spring,’ Horror From Padraig Reynolds 2012-07-27T01:22:52Z

After “Under Pressure,” Logic decided to undergo a shift in his lyrical themes. Logic looks to take his career to the final frontier 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

The book is guided by an economist’s sensibilities, and Nakhjavani’s lyrical novelist’s ear rarely manages to mitigate the dryness of López-Claros’s writing. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

You seek “Queen Sugar,” a lyrical family drama about three adult siblings who reconnect when their father dies. Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

After a foray into sculpture, de Kooning returned to painting in the 1970s, producing works that were uncharacteristically buoyant and colorful, even lyrical. Mimi Kilgore, Arts Patron and de Kooning Muse, Dies at 87 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

In his prose, the lyrical and the rough are always intertwined. Greece’s Fear and Yearning Crystallized in Fiction 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The play is not lampooning Mary or the religion, she says, but is a playwright's lyrical imagining. Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z

Knight and his investors earned millions while enduring the wrath of politicians and activists such as C. Delores Tucker, who condemned Death Row's violent lyrical messages. Suge Knight, a link who'd lost connection 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

She adds: “His food and thinking are lyrical. It is like the Odyssey.” Massimo Bottura, the 'poet' chef with the best restaurant in the world 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Their exuberantly expressive yet intricately lyrical performances of the film’s rhyming text are unlike any in this year’s Oscar scramble. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Working with the cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Perry responds vitally to his own emotional impulses in the presence of the actors; the dialogue that they send spinning aloft is pugnaciously lyrical, gracefully deceptive, awkwardly tender. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

In her lyrical and mournful 1997 play, “Pride’s Crossing,” Singing Beach makes a cameo as the locale for a proposed moonlit swim. Review: Tina Howe’s New Englanders Thrash in the Shallows of ‘Singing Beach’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Unfaithful Music” is a lyrical tale that stretches across generations, geography and a century of popular song. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Even as it poses technical and lyrical challenges to its soloist, it treats listeners to a sonic wonderland, recalling the orchestrating ingenuity of Ravel and Bartók. French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z

Ramakrishnan's tone is small; he is a lyrical, not dramatic player. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The performances of the Yeguas were inventive, hilarious, and lyrical by turns, sometimes lavishly gorgeous, sometimes brutal. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

That bending is evident, particularly in her new collection of poetry, “Nothing But the Music,” a volume of lyrical dispatches from dense, swirling sites of Black musical conviviality, struggle and transformation. Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

The first of several dramatic ebbs set the stage for a lyrical solo by Mr. Metheny against an automated flutter of marimba and tuned apothecary bottles. Music Review: A Signature Sound From Pat Metheny 2014-03-31T20:05:36Z

The other three movements offered relief, especially the second, where there were wonderfully lyrical moments and fine exchanges among solo woodwinds. Review: Bruckner Rises and Stalls in Hands of Two Conductors 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

In prior decades, rappers usually laid down two or three verses on a solo cut—if three strong ones, all the more proof of lyrical chops. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

A column that ran this year in “El País” included concerns that she had “pulled a ‘Miley Cyrus,’” going from lyrical Lorca allusions to simplistic, dirty rhymes and oversharing on social media. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Derek was correct, of course: if the logistics of a narrative are flimsy or absent, then it hardly matters how lyrical its lines are. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

In prose that swirls with lyrical wonder, she recalls formative moments in her life and career. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The opening drum roll references Sly and the Family Stone’s classic “Stand!,” but, instead of that song’s lyrical affirmations and musical ebullience, D’Angelo and Foster create a more pensive mood. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

His canvases are lyrical studies of ruins, built up with layers of rubble, ash, sand, scavenged clothes and straw, and dense with historical symbols, like a coiled snake associated with seraphim, the biblical angels. Anselm Kiefer and His Hallmarks Have a Moment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

“There are so many lovely moments in the book, beautiful passages of writing that speak to Beverly-Whittemore’s empathy and lyrical powers of description,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I guess that’s what makes an album unified, these little musical and lyrical tropes.” Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z

The album takes the form of a song cycle, a lyrical device perhaps best employed by Franz Schubert. Tori Amos communes with classical, other pasts 2011-12-08T21:43:05Z

I loved Ben Miller waxing lyrical about quantum physics – he wouldn't be allowed to do that on The One Show. QI: after 10 series still rather more than quite interesting 2012-09-28T10:30:00Z

Rapper A$AP Rocky meshes his laid-back lyrical persona with a melodic sound, delivering an impressive piece of work with just a few flaws on his debut album, "Long.Live.A$AP." Review: A$AP Rocky is impressive on debut album 2013-01-14T18:31:15Z

Stanley Myers’s “Cavatina,” from the score of the movie “The Deer Hunter,” projected long lyrical lines over gentle and sometimes unexpected harmonies. Jason Vieaux avoids the cliches of classical-guitar concerts 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Another of his earlier productions, "The Rap Guide to Evolution," took a more scientific slant with a lyrical breakdown of Charles Darwin's theory and its epic conflict with creationism. Review: DJ Baba Brinkman mixes Darwin and dating 2012-12-06T01:30:13Z

But the complex architecture belies the score’s beauty: The vocal and orchestral writing, as inextricable as Gerda and Kay, unfurls with deceptively cool simplicity and lyrical warmth. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

“She has such great control and economy of her lines. Everything has a purpose. She’s got a great sense of movement in her lines and in her figures. They’re lyrical.” In a New Book of Sketches, Françoise Gilot Clears Her Mind of the Past 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Ghostface Killah, a veteran so accepted as a lyrical hulk as to be taken for granted, appears on “Purple Hearts” with an astonishing, floating verse. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Here are a handful of other highlights: "BOMBAY BEACH": Arguably the hit of the festival, Alma Har'el's lyrical debut was the unanimous jury choice for best documentary feature. `Bombay Beach,' `The Guard' highlight Tribeca 2011-05-02T11:46:04Z

And though much of Pereira de Almeida’s prose reads like lyrical stream of consciousness, her use of Mila’s hair as a metaphor, the perfect stand-in for all her questions of identity, is universal. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

And our feeling is, because of the lyrical density of the show and the physical vocabulary, which is just as dynamic, audiences tend to lean in. ‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail on sparking interest in American history 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The track’s lyrical agony is worthy of Anne Sexton, and the sultry thrum of the chorus — “She loves me and I love her/I’m not sure how to please her” — recalls Portishead’s 1994 masterpiece “Dummy.” Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

As with these two illustrious predecessors there is a strange beauty – sad, lyrical , unconsoled – in this latest virtual instalment of the American photographic safari-odyssey. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z

That tourist, she depicts him, who struts into the country, pen drawn, ready to “discover” the wilderness, to tame it with his “civilized lyrical words.” Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

It was, she told the reference work Contemporary Authors, “my chance to be both serious and lyrical.” Carol Field, Italian Food Expert, Dies at 76 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

An expansion of her excellent 2010 "Modern Love" column about open adoption, Seek's lyrical memoir contributes eloquently to this conversation. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

While lyrical and often beautiful, his recent prose is leaner. At 82, legendary travel writer Colin Thubron shows no signs of slowing down 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The lyrical effusions of the second movement were answered with crisp changeability; the finale had a surreally martial undercurrent. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

As a memory play framed by the lyrical recollections of the narrator, Tom, a stand-in for the young Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” is particularly susceptible to productions that shroud it in a mist of elegy. Theater Review: Judith Ivey Brings Grit to a Tennessee Williams Jewel 2010-03-25T02:29:00Z

Lead singer Stephen Jenkins explained that the musical and lyrical juxtapositions were completely intentional: The music reflects "the bright, shiny feeling you get on speed," he told Billboard. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Of Iranian decent, this unsigned Kent-based rapper is revered by new-skool political activists alongside those with a penchant for lyrical skill. Meet the rising stars of UK hip-hop 2011-02-09T11:59:11Z

Boots is lyrical, even when he is talking. Music for the underdog: Oakland's Boots Riley leads working class hip-hop movement 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The lyrical scene in Nightmare and the Cat's single "Alvarado" is a familiar one to Echo Park indie regulars. Pop & Hiss video premiere: Nightmare and the Cat's 'Alvarado' 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Punk rock and recreational drugs got Grace through adolescence, and at 18 she founded Against Me!, throwing herself into an ultramasculine frenzy of mosh pits, tour buses and lyrical rage. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z

The following spring De La Soul unfurled their trippy masterpiece, Three Feet High and Rising, a lyrical firework display of child-like wonder. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The trombone enters playing a searching lyrical line, soon cushioned by plush string chords. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Questions about lyrical inspiration are deflected with a stock answer along the lines of "the music always comes first", but Leithauser's world-weary, defiant narrative voice is unmistakable. The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest' 2011-01-13T22:45:01Z

Again and again, the artists reveal how an image is built up on the paper — through dense graphite markings, lyrical ink lines or thick brush strokes. Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica 2011-11-10T22:23:09Z

Dickerson-Despenza’s lyrical prose is laced with humor, and she creates lively and warmhearted characters. Review: Three Generations Awaiting Justice in ‘Cullud Wattah’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

This lyrical, folk-tinged work is performed less often than Dvorak’s popular Cello Concerto in B minor and is not as effective. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z

And to his duality, something he has long manifested as both a conscious reggae artist and a dancehall artist never shying away from what Jamaicans call slackness, or lyrical mischief. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

In it, she shows off the dark lyrical content and versatile vocal range for which she's gained a cult following. Cate Le Bon: Living for the music 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

If Bolin’s book is a lyrical meditation, Tea’s is a good-natured slap. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

In The New York Times Janet Maslin called it “a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie” that “could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.” The Return of the Hardy Novel to the Screen 2012-07-13T16:29:16Z

Packed with illuminating interviews and lyrical movement, “Breath Made Visible” portrays a woman with angels in her feet and innovation in her blood. | 'Breath Made Visible': A Woman Who Can?t Stand Still 2010-04-23T00:20:00Z

All writers need a strong quotient of self-regard for that momentous leap onto the blank page in the morning, but Burns’s lyrical crowing about his talent is sometimes breathtaking. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

A similarly pedestrian reading of the delicately lyrical Sonata in A minor by the 20-year-old Franz Schubert was the low point of the evening. Washington International Piano Festival opens 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Moreover, in several scenes, Maitland surpasses external events to get cinematically into the minds of his interview subjects, emphasizing their remarks with subjective visual fantasies, whether lyrical or horrific, that conjure inner experience impressionistically. A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

With time, the brushy bravura of her early work evolved into a more lyrical style that evoked the subtleties of visual perception. Jane Freilicher, Lyrical Painter of Long Island Light, Dies at 90 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Exhibit C” has also taken on a life of its own, spawning countless remixes from rappers invested in the lyrical tradition the song upheld, and unafraid of its somber mood. Music Review: Jay Electronica and Big K.R.I.T. Rap for Purists 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z

For all the contrasts between frenzied outbursts and lyrical episodes, a compelling narrative line ran through each piece. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

"I'm going to miss my dude. This loss is painful. But the lyrical legacy he left us will impact the culture forever. Rest in peace, Prodigy. My brother." The Best and Worst Moments of the 2017 BET Awards 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

In this reading of lyrical history, things got a good deal more upbeat with the arrival of music hall. Richard Thompson's 1,000 Years of Popular Music 2010-06-21T12:33:00Z

He found recognition in academic circles, becoming Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and lecturing at Harvard University, and won the Nobel prize for his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth". Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z

Keys: I think the whole album is more lyrical than ever before and I definitely think it is on a deeper level. On 'Fire,' Alicia Keys presents new side of self 2012-11-28T15:21:09Z

“Girl” is narrated in the easy, deceptively offhand, frequently lyrical first person that O’Brien’s readers will find familiar. She Escaped From Boko Haram, but Her Troubles Only Continued 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

“Oblivion,” a group tango created by Ms. Fajar with Mr. Cornejo, takes a stab at a lyrical side of tango, but the result is little more than mundane posturing. Dance Review: A Shoe and Fake Punches (but Few Sparks) Fly in a Night of Argentine Tango 2011-01-12T22:02:27Z

His writing is at once lyrical and spartan. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

It was about two and a half hours of music in front of 40,000 people, powerful and lyrical at the same time. Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

What made her performance special, though, was the dusky warmth and lyrical subtlety of her singing, qualities you do not typically associate with this ruthless character. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z

To me, this album — “Charlie Parker With Strings” — captures the deepness of Parker’s innovative nature as an artist in a way that is beautiful, lyrical and emotional. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

There was the lyrical emotional journey of Ailey’s “Revelations,” of course — that piece is the perennial closer of the Kennedy Center shows. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

“Vital. Vital,” is how the poet Gwendolyn Brooks began her lyrical preface to Etheridge Knight’s first pamphlet of poems, “Poems From Prison.” In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

At once groove-based and lyrical, thumping and contemplative, this two-movement work is as rich as any piece by Adams to date. USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review 2013-01-27T00:08:04Z

Ms. Wang is a precise, focused player whose reading tempered the score’s overt athleticism with a lyrical underpinning. Music Review: St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-18T21:53:55Z

On the surface the first bagatelle from this group seems lyrical and soothing. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

The book has too much medical jargon, but it also features crisp writing that’s thoughtful, tough-minded and lyrical. ‘Speaking in Bones’ review: A forensics expert on the trail of a missing teen 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Puts’s score — which is written through, eclectic and soaringly lyrical — contains dreamy touches befitting the fluid nature of Pierce’s text, which has nearly 30 scenes that dissolve in and out of one another. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Freesia/The Bond” is a balladic suite made radiant with lyrical purpose; “Whispers From Eve” achieves something analogous, all glimmer and chime. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

There is fretfulness in even his most lyrical descriptions, and it is remarkable how this paradox is mirrored in the atonality-spiked lushness of the music. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing offensive per se in the lyrical content of the song, but it’s always smacked of being an act of “cultural appropriation” to me. Can You Like a Movie or Song That Has Something Wrong? Times Readers Respond 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Mostly though, the lines unfold in snappy, lyrical phrases. Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ Uses Opera to Tell a Jazz Story 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

This lyrical climax — among the most famous in literature — becomes more a rhetorical exercise than an epiphany of self-revelation. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Toomer’s experimental mesh of forms and lyrical language made black experiences “the metaphor for the human condition” and modernity itself, Mr. Gates and Mr. Byrd write. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z

As Maurizio, he performed with meltingly lyrical phrases and thrilling top notes. Music Review: Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-09T23:02:45Z

“The Innocents” is a work of lyrical naturalism dressed as an allegory. Review | In Michael Crummey’s ‘The Innocents,’ two orphans in a remote corner of the world learn to survive 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

His forged pieces consolidate steel into masses of unrivaled denseness, while his plate-steel pieces tend to be lighter and more lyrical. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

A fabulously laid-back drum fill going into the scalding and lyrical tenor solo on “Witch Hunt” is almost enough to place it in my personal pantheon. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

The lyrical structures, the character structures, are completely different on this. Meat Loaf explores human condition on "Teddy Bear" 2010-05-03T22:12:00Z

Alternatively loud and lyrical, using a dulcimer strung with barbed wire and crutches played like a cello as well as a string quartet, "Lament" portrays the horror of the 1914-18 war without patriotism or nostalgia. German industrial band raises ghosts of World War One in 'Lament' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The dialogue is gritty but lyrical, sprinkled with Spanish and pocked with profanity. A Playwright Who Puts Her Demons, and Family, to Work 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

So the extra muscle at the door was no surprise, really, given the group’s record of ultra-violent, misogynistic lyrical content and reputation for doing shows that border on riots. Tyler, the Creator’s profane, energetic, sold-out show at Neumos 2013-04-12T00:26:36Z

"Their lyrical palette is so rich," he said of the famously brainy jazz-rock group. Music producer Mark Ronson scores his own hit with 'Uptown Funk' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Swift has always been proud of the extent to which she transparently mines her own life for lyrical fodder. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Commissioned by This Is Not a Theater Company, this lyrical work elicits the perfect amount of warmth needed during a chilly winter night. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

"The Schubert sonata fits naturally between the Chaconne and Paganini Variations. It's one of his most lyrical in the vocal quality of every movement, even its more dramatic parts." Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

There were extended episodes where Roumain improvised winding strands of frenzied yet lyrical lines over orchestra music that maintains a respectful distance. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

This remarkable family story is woven into Burma's history in a work that is moving, lyrical, shocking – and essential for anyone wishing to understand the country emerging today. Rory MacLean's top 10 books on Burma 2013-05-08T14:43:33Z

There was electronic geekery and lyrical vagary, and drums pounded by someone other than the drummer. Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom 2010-05-09T21:50:00Z

Across his oeuvre, Coates’ prose style and literary prowess are hip-hop sharpened: he believes in the art of dexterous reference, potent, lyrical critique and political storytelling. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Largo is easygoing but poised, with quivering trills and lyrical passages shot through with dissonance. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z

In his lyrical soliloquies, Abdallah celebrates the diversity, human richness and opportunities America affords. A humane comedy of love and immigration at ACT | Theater review 2011-06-23T22:27:04Z

As the action transitions from almost pageant-like into a communal ritual, even casual movement feels lyrical. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Reconciling the Ghosts in the Attic 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

A brilliant little play in itself, “Exorcise” is as wrenching a portrait of moral gridlock as anything in Arthur Miller, as weirdly lyrical as Tennessee Williams and as potently heightened as Suzan-Lori Parks. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

In 80 minutes of growing tension, to a sensuous, lyrical score which relates closely to Glass's string quartet repertoire, the complexities unfold. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

There’s an abrupt inhale for the cello’s lyrical entrance, but the orchestra insists on interrupting. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

As for Morlot and the orchestra, they rise to the many challenges of the music, playing with real commitment, a wide dynamic range and expressive force in the lyrical passages. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Simon, “An Elegy: A Cry From the Grave,” is a solemnly lyrical and emotive reflection on, its composer once wrote, those killed by an oppressive power. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

But she's also very humble about that, and the cleverness of book's lyrical tone. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

And all of this is rendered in Torday’s unobtrusively lyrical prose, superb Rothian sentences that glide over the page as smoothly as a Spitfire across a cloudless sky. Book Review Podcast: 'The Last Flight of Poxl West' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

There have been disparaging interviews, there have been lyrical swipes – but as time went on, Katy began to modulate the attacks into professions of hope that the pair could one day be friends again. Taylor Swift v Katy Perry: when even an actual olive branch can't end the froideur 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

But it’s udder madness that Kelly Reichardt’s lyrical “First Cow” never contended here. Oscar predictions: Can anything beat ‘Nomadland’? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

As the chapters shift back and forth in time, the tone switches from lyrical and atmospheric in the past to spiky and acidic in the present. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

It is a lyrical role offering much more opportunity to reflective singing in the pacing of the music. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z

Although he confesses to a powerful affection for writing pastiche — songs that intentionally evoke previous styles of music — Mr. Sondheim’s later works more potently illustrate the continual reach of his musical and lyrical imagination. Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z

With each of the two acts unfolding in an unbroken stream, Puts moves smoothly between parlando sung conversation and glowing lyrical flights. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Walt Whitman, in his poem “Year of Meteors,” found something lyrical in the dry information being culled across the country. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Pianist Ivo Neame's relaxed creativity over the most taxing rhythmic puzzles makes the band sound much more lyrical than it really is. Phronesis: Alive 2010-07-15T21:01:00Z

His poetry is lyrical, elliptical and often slightly mysterious.” W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z

Many of the songs on “Camila,” which Mr. Feeney executive produced and includes writing by Ms. Cabello on every track, are infused with tonal or lyrical references to her Latin heritage. How Camila Cabello Lost Some Friends and Found Her Voice 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The prose is superbly controlled, richly textured, brimming with wise and lyrical insights that make it a worthy heir to its mighty predecessor. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

This is “not her way,” Mr. Porter wrote, “and five years on we shall bless her for her not endeavoring now to be ‘exciting’ but, instead, lyrical and beautiful.” Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

It's no lyrical masterpiece, but it is a hugely effective bit of storytelling. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

And his lyrical smarts remain undimmed: "You're too down/ I'm one across the room", he riffs, crossword style, at one point. Music in 2011: skater hip-hop, dark 60s pop, Punjabi folk 2011-01-01T00:04:01Z

A tribute to his late mother, “Tears of Joy” finds the lyrical New York rapper/producer feeling his way through a cloud of grief over flickering beats, his low-register deadpan perfectly suiting the melancholic fog. 8 artists to watch at Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Bruno called it tastefully lyrical, but “at times a little jagged.” 'Dancing With the Stars' Latin Night recap: Tempers flared, chests bared 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Rounding out all of his old tropes in one go gives this album even more of its conclusive tone; his lyrical voice is unified and singular. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z

They are affectingly lyrical, but you wish she would write a book. Art Review: The Fully Engaged Lens 2011-05-12T21:57:40Z

Macklemore has a gift for narrative, but his strengths are lyrical and melodic, not rhythmic; his flows are flabby. Macklemore’s ‘Same Love’ set the agenda at 2014 Grammys 2014-01-29T23:55:10Z

Buck for one sees concrete sources for the "Emerald Valley" lyrical messaging. Peter Buck has no complaints: On his new Filthy Friends album, R.E.M. reissues and more 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

It begins with lyrical scenes from her childhood: “Sheltered by my family’s love, I was shielded from racism,” Barnett writes. The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her vocal and lyrical talent launched Flight Facilities into success and her demos accentuated those emo moments in Skins. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-23T16:08:00Z

Much of the “Coruscation” movement demands sizzling, high-energy playing, and “Reflection” is, as you might guess, quieter and more overtly lyrical. Music Review: Calligraphy Made of Sound 2011-03-24T21:49:11Z

Lofting can hit many registers, but he saves the lyrical for the animals themselves, who experience life as fully as we do, though you’d never know it if you can’t understand them. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

If memory was the problem, he had no similar trouble in the slow movement, played with glowing sound and lyrical poise, or in the final rondo, dispatched with delicacy, clarity and brio. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

His performance, which unfolded at the festival’s climactic conclusion, merged his lyrical, squawking free jazz inventions alongside traditional Saharan sounds of indigenous Touareg musicians. At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The feathers sound a lyrical note, and they invite the wearer to think metaphorically about loft, buoyancy, elevation. When clothes are more than clothes: Phyllis Green's designs are journeys, hung on a hangar 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

He had no time to waste on superfluous adverbs, adjectives or tricky verb forms, and he had no patience for moody interior monologues or lyrical descriptive passages. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z

Anchored by his lyrical dexterity, Nas' knack for social commentary and deeply detailed narratives drove the album and cemented him as an artist who would continue to inspire new generations over the following two decades. Nas to launch tour built around 'Illmatic' documentary, performance 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

As far back as the 1960s, books like “Abiyoyo,” Pete Seeger’s lyrical tall tale set in a multicultural South African village, were popular with forward-thinking parents and their young. Children’s Primers Court the Littlest Radicals 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Yanagitani’s touch reminded me of why the piano is considered a percussion instrument, and it was only in Schumann’s gently lyrical Andante movement that he backed off and blended in with an appealing legato. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

His, he explained, is “more pensive and lyrical — very introspective. It’s not in any way showy, but it’s expressive and definitely has something deeper and important to say.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

There, amid prevailing atonal winds, Mr. Levy abandoned the lyrical style that came naturally. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

They deal in lowest common denominators: lyrical clunkers such as "in for a penny, in for a pound" are set to irritatingly catchy, chugging guitar pop. Scouting for Girls 2010-05-09T20:50:00Z

These filmed “confessions,” shot against a black background, provide counterpoint to the lyrical B-roll interludes and the highly stylized interviews that dominate much of the proceedings. Yance Ford’s Powerful Cinematic Memoir, “Strong Island” 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

In a vast window-walled bar space, Grover Arnold, a genial brand ambassador, offered lyrical commentary as he guided me through a tasting. Savoring Bourbon, and Its Storied History, in Northern Kentucky 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

There is a kind of lyrical abstraction there that is very personal. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

She hit upon a similar tone when she started her career as a video game designer, creating lyrical games that explore memory and small, private moments. No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

He also made a point of featuring some lyrical inventions of his own. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z

Mr. Kuhn, an astute and lyrical pianist who began his career more than 50 years ago, has long favored the trio as a working unit, though he still appears in other settings. Review: The Steve Kuhn Trio’s New Album Offers Heat and Intimacy 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The Third String Quartet, “…songs are sung,” completed in 1995, takes up relatively simple-seeming, lyrical materials and subjects them to strenuous elongation, until they assume an alien, tormented character. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

“Pages for You” — written in sensuous, lyrical prose that contrasted appealingly with its truncated, two-page chapters — was a poetic outburst of obsession and energy. Illicit Lovers, Reunited in Adulthood 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Having the opportunity to listen to these tracks individually reveal the beauty of Scott’s lyrical and melodic gift. Stone Temple Pilots Share Master Track to Honor Scott Weiland 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her singing was plush and warm, with lyrical sheen in tender phrases and steely intensity when Senta’s obsession takes hold. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

A geobiologist with a literary bent makes her science both accessible and lyrical, and offers a gratifying and moving chronicle of the scientist’s life. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

He also understood that his wife's extraordinary voice was ultimately better suited to the more lyrical repertoire than to the more dramatic roles which broke so many sopranos' careers too soon. In praise of ? Richard Bonynge 2010-10-12T23:05:00Z

But fantastic ripples — an enigmatic, utopian island and mythical “ornate sea creatures” — break the narrative surface so that the prose’s lyrical pulse builds to one long, unbroken spell. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Dylan is a lyrical magpie, who clearly never forgot anything he ever wrote. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Taylor blazed his way through Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" and displayed lyrical sensitivity in Art Tatum's arrangement of Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood" and Thelonius Monk's "Ruby, My Dear." Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Gahan's public unravelling gave the impression that the quieter Gore had been drawing lyrical inspiration from his bandmate's life, but Gore denies this with a twinge of embarrassment. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z

This latter-day “Road” can feel self-conscious in its lyrical speech and in the choreographed movement overseen by Jonathan Watkins. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But the second, composed in a single movement in 1952 and long thought lost, is, while still highly lyrical, more concentrated and harmonically adventurous. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Chinese administrators waxed lyrical about the Red river area’s benefits as a trading post. Striving for unity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The music is alternately lyrical, eerie, rambunctious and prankish. Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z

The result is a meticulously intimate yet rhapsodically lyrical melodrama that evokes its characters’ relationship to their own history with an overwhelmingly powerful sense of discovery and responsibility, pain and pride. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Again, the purling warmth of his lyrical playing was a thing of beauty unto itself. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z

Somehow “This Land Is Your Land” encompasses the American Dream with just three simple chords and a childlike lyrical quality. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

"Fix You"'s lyrical narrative is about romancing a wounded heart. Music Monday: The Physics, Vietnam feat. Issue, Waka Flocka Flame 2011-03-14T18:19:06Z

The script is now funny, now arrestingly lyrical. Review | Greek tragedy continues to have its moment in fierce new keys 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Catchy numbers threaded with Biblical imagery, contemplative ballads, and lyrical narratives comprise the album. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dohnanyi brought lyrical grace to the Romance, sweeping energy to the scherzo and welcome coherence to the episodic finale. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

Moments of mystical devotion are evoked in serenely lyrical passages; jagged themes and acidic harmonizations suggest the chaos and unpredictability of the time. Music Review: Juilliard Presents ?Dialogues des Carm?lites? 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z

This is not the first time neuroscience has waxed lyrical about a brain chemical: similar claims were made about dopamine and serotonin. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z

In this case the contrast was between a freely flowing, lyrical cello line and a disciplined, almost marchlike piano part. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z

Long stretches of recitative, especially agitated dramatic passages accompanied by the full orchestra, slip subtly into more lyrical arioso, then segue almost unnoticed into an impassioned aria. Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But thematically, “Gaslighter” seems largely closed off from the outside world, with Maines revisiting her recent divorce for lyrical kindling. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

“They are lyrical, joyful, intense paintings. And then her life gets more complicated.” Out of Obscurity, Lynne Drexler’s Abstract Paintings Fetch Millions 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The first movement is a portrait of Manon, with passages of ethereal beauty, melting lyrical outpourings, hints of Austrian folk music and playful dances, and bouts of what seems barely contained anger. Review: New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall With Anne-Sophie Mutter 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Yeletsky has only a single extended aria, a declaration of love, one of the great lyrical outpourings in Russian opera. Music Review: Betting on Not-So-Sure Things: Love and a Trick to Win at Cards 2011-03-13T22:08:17Z

The lyrical subject matter is not so light in the case of the Vital, also of Long Beach but from the gritty north side. The New Punks of Los Angeles 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Lockhart’s lyrical thriller continues to enthrall readers years after its initial release, marking this novel as a future classic in the genre. 6 Unforgettable Y.A. Thrillers to Add to Your Reading List 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

A self-styled "landed gypsy", he has something in common with that other rural exile, Jerusalem's Rooster, but he is crosser, less lyrical, more obviously exploitative. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z

“When he worked with artists, he was going for lyrical and story clarity,” Mr. Torkanowsky said. An Allen Toussaint Tribute by New Orleans’s Modern-Day All-Stars 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Where are you with your sobriety journey as a lyrical subject? The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Griffiths's language is lyrical, brutal and startling; it requires and deserves a robust reader. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z

But Mr. Huang has a lyrical gift, and even in the absence of translations or projected titles, the emotional arc of each piece was clear. Music Review: Huang Ruo?s ?Dr. Sun Yat-Sen? at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2012-01-12T23:44:28Z

He keeps listeners on their toes with some lyrical left turns. Simon goes back to way old methods for new disc 2011-04-13T12:06:18Z

Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters’ lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, “Ray Meets Helen” has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies. Review: Lonely in Los Angeles, Until ‘Ray Meets Helen’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

His set of new music, from his album “Wild Man Dance,” worked through lyrical and free-time sections and intimated a sense of searching without a set outcome. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

The effect is both lyrical and homely, with the different shapes suggesting the taut tops of drums and pieces of thin, flat bread. 2010-01-15T01:44:00Z

More remarkable is that their messy surfaces manage to become weirdly lyrical celebrations of all sorts of good things. Albert Oehlen's abstractions raise thorny questions at Gagosian 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamelin, meanwhile, emphasized the work’s extremes, with a hard-edged, almost brutal sound in the work’s martial moments, and world-weary delicacy in the lyrical ones. Review: The Budapest Festival Orchestra, Martial and Lyrical 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

She continued to treat her lyrical little masterpiece as something shameful, denying her authorship for the next four decades. What Patricia Highsmith did for love: 'The Price of Salt' and the secrets behind 'Carol' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Its scenes, quiet and undramatic, are nonetheless suffused with an almost lyrical intensity, and its sympathy is as limitless as its curiosity. ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere the string body supported Mr. Tomter’s more lyrical effusions with urgent overlapping lines or glassy harmonies. Music Review: Music for Seaside Village, But Hold the Salt Cod 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z

The band’s 2017 album, “Down the Drain,” was an exercise in lyrical sharpening and heady persistence. D.C.’s Bacchae may be fed up, but at Songbyrd, that didn’t stop the band from raging 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

In it Glass weaves together two of his themes and one of Shankar’s into a lyrical garland, part Indian and part anything but. The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

And, stereotypically, a lyrical bent and melancholy outlook. All Is Silence by Manuel Rivas – review 2013-06-21T15:43:01Z

That is a lot to ask of a group of juxtaposed short pieces, but Schumann’s lyrical gifts served him well here. Music Review: A Russian Who Ignores Those Old Stereotypes 2011-07-28T22:07:30Z

All of them are immediately appealing, written with lyrical notes that are both reassuring and exacting. Ruth Reichl Recharges in the Kitchen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Without turning linguistic or lyrical cartwheels, Jerkins lucidly articulates social dynamics that have dictated the realities of American black women for centuries, like how white feminism erases black women,” Febos writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

But the cast’s take on Giono’s lyrical style was often plodding, and gave the sense that the production had yet to find its inner rhythm. A Quirky Parisian Festival Refinds Its Footing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

While courting lyrical pleasantries, Rae always deepens her images with hints of an underlying disorientation and dread of being forever lost in this world of wonders. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Dry, sometimes silly exercises jostled against more lyrical blooms of movement. Dance Review: Glancing Backward, Then Facing Forward 2011-04-10T21:54:32Z

The lyrical content never felt isolated, though, instead developing an incredible emotional connectivity. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

She was a playwright whose lyrical drama, “Ordo Virtutum” is excerpted in a scene in which the nuns, as they were allowed to do on certain holidays, frolic in silk gowns and jewels. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z

Although his Five Pieces for Orchestra were written as early as 1939, they showed Jones's typically lyrical and rhythmic thrust; in their most intense moments, they pointed directly to his symphonic output. BBCNOW/Walker 2012-12-09T14:42:50Z

"It's a very direct lyrical attack, but I'd prefer not to say who it's about," Wilder says, cautiously, of the latter song. Yeasayer: men versus mammon 2012-07-26T19:30:03Z

And in more reflective, lyrical passages, he sang with tenderness and subtlety. Music Review: A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ?Ring? 2011-06-20T21:38:53Z

From the walls glow sculptures twisted into lyrical phrases—“You loved me like a distant star,” “Only god knows I’m good”—that read like excerpts from a dreamy, tragic ballad. Tracey Emin's Neon Works on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2013-12-05T05:00:00Z

“A suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair,” Denise Mina said here. New in Paperback: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘What You Have Heard Is True’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

He always sounded patiently composed, wise and lyrical even in the most abstract circumstances. John Tchicai obituary 2012-10-11T17:25:54Z

In place of those typical Puccini melodic outbursts that grab you and won’t let go, this ingenious score folds refined lyrical strands into a nearly through-composed musical fabric. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z

These artists have also made room for purely lyrical numbers. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z

Ike and Tina’s early R&B hits are electrifying moments of raw musical power, but in retrospect they are also deeply creepy in their lyrical content. Tina Turner’s 11 Essential Songs 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

The sombre first movement, by turns barbed and lyrical, was beautifully understated, and its tricky combination of harmonic bitterness, muted virtuosity and melodic expansion flawlessly judged. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z

Cole told Reuters in a recent interview that the album balances different styles and lyrical content that reflect his meticulous approach toward crafting music. J. Cole's "Sideline Story" earns warm reviews 2011-09-28T23:20:45Z

He depicted people in scenic landscapes, often viewed from a distance to imbue the composition with a lyrical, rhythmic beauty. Seeing India Through a Contemporary Lens 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Like much of Mr. Mumford’s work this ruminative piece is at once atonal and fundamentally lyrical. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-02-03T20:17:59Z

That perhaps it’s a lyrical critique of machismo or a meditation on the sensitive inner lives beneath tough-guy exteriors. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

An unabashed high modernist — no concessions to pop music here! — with a lyrical and even antic streak, Thomas writes uncompromising but engaging works with evocative titles drawn from her extensive reading of poetry. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The book’s final two paragraphs are a lyrical, almost mystical reflection that many anglers know by heart: Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

There’s too much lyrical patter for this to qualify as a concert. 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The most lyrical parts of this big-hearted book are about how all the characters, including the star, are almost physically drawn to the town and one another. Books of The Times: ‘Shotgun Lovesongs,’ Nickolas Butler’s Debut Novel 2014-03-09T19:24:51Z

“It is true to old-fashioned opera in being sentimental. It is true to Apple in Bates’ applying technology, combining electronica and frisky orchestral music and lyrical vocal lines, in as friendly a way as possible.” Esssential Arts & Culture: An operatic Steve Jobs, a museum of O.J. ephemera, Dudamel and Venezuela's crisis 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Dvorak’s lyrical gifts were comparable to Tchaikovsky’s, but he struggled to create long-term musical narratives that hold interest. Familiar with their music and with each other 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Its lyrical ton-sur-ton design, done mostly in a scheme of ecru, black and white, evokes the building’s aristocratic past while being resolutely modern. | Paris Bed Check 2012-04-05T17:41:04Z

What sets The People's Key apart from Oberst's prodigious output over the past 15 years isn't its lyrical density or conceptual assurance, but the taut, bright, propulsive vitality of its musicianship. Bright Eyes: The People's Key - review 2011-02-10T22:20:01Z

The term “lyric” fuels the approbation “lyrical,” meaning music that is attractive, melodic, and grateful on the ear. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The water nymph Rusalka sings her lyrical showpiece, the “Song to the Moon,” while lying atop a kiosk. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z

The 360-member choir, the lyrical voice of Mormonism since pioneer days, was on a mission with multiple levels, historians and surviving singers say. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

He told The New York Times Magazine in 1959 that folk music had “hidden within it a great dramatic sense, and a powerful lyrical sense.” Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

In arrangements of lyrical pieces by Sibelius and Mahler and in Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile,” though, Josefowicz never relaxed. Review | Leila Josefowicz begins stint with NSO 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

For the first time, I knew what I didn't want to be, which was a lyrical painter. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

The Escher also offered a committed performance of Berg’s “Lyric Suite,” which meshes a modernist, 12-tone idiom with lyrical and romantic gestures. Music Review: A Violinist and Novelist, and, Yes, Composer 2011-02-04T22:32:02Z

The tenor role of Arnold, a young Swiss conspirator who has fallen in love with the Austrian princess Mathilde, is an arduous workout combining soaring lyrical effusions and heroic fervor. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The piece uses a combination of musical abstraction and lyrical content to interrogate themes of migration, displacement, citizenship and belonging. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Alexander Zemlinsky’s music bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries: pushing harmony to new places, while remaining lushly lyrical. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But there’s a lot to like in the lyrical quartet in A Major, Op. Review | Jupiter String Quartet delivers on its name with an out-of-this-world performance 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

One of the great lyrical fast talking comics is gone. 'Fast Times' Actor, Comedian Taylor Negron Dies 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The opera’s different registers — parodic, lyrical, noisy, and deeply felt — cohere in a way that, Mr. Aucoin feels, is “much more of a piece.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The songs of the “Hollywood Songbook” are short, lucid, sometimes angry, often lyrical explorations of exile. Music Review: Opera Moderne Completes Its ‘Red Scare’ Series 2012-06-17T22:12:58Z

For every Golden Age, there’s a tin present, allegedly limping from commercial compromises and calorie-free lyrical content. Low record sales mean hip-hop artists must diversify to attract major music labels

For Mr. Cogeval, the stubbornness was simply “a bit of theater and that is the lyrical aspect of preparing the show.” Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z

The range of idioms employed here veers between the cool objectivity of spoken docudrama and the intensely lyrical extremes of quasi-operatic mad scenes. Review: Making Eloquent Theater From Bleak Facts 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

To get a more lyrical sense of the state, you’ll need to consult a Jersey boy, and listen again to the Bruce Springsteen album Nebraska. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z

In lyrical passages, especially in the second movement, the piano playing was sweetly effusive. Fill-ins Behzod Abduraimov and James Gaffigan shine at Bowl 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aucoin’s version, with Orpheus joined by his double, is more a stentorian demand that an aria of lyrical persuasion. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Their conversation – every pause meticulously timed by Fosse, then rescored by Stephens – is by turns fragmented and lyrical, sometimes elliptical, elsewhere offhand. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z

It is a lyrical allusion to the ongoing effects of colonialism. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

So the lyrical, atmospheric fairy tale of “Wintersong,” which creatively combines elements of both stories, drew me in immediately. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

The band is known for its inspired live shows, crude lyrical themes and unprintable-in-the-Seattle-Times album art. Your New Year's Eve in Seattle music: Shabazz Palaces, Beat Connection and more 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The lyrical result is an imagery-rich, haunted, occasionally bitter tapestry presented as autobiography. Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Their voices have a lyrical poise akin to Jamal’s own; he improvises throughout, leaving himself some solo space between verses. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

There’s no narrative, just the actors — who play themselves — moving to and fro, trading off their sometimes lyrical meditations. Two New York Neighborhoods Set the Stage for Decadence and Loss 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Possibly in children's literature – some lyrical passages in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, or some boating episodes in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series – and possibly in romantic comedy. Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z

But his ingeniously lyrical trio music, and the harmonically opulent big-band account of Wheeler's new pieces from The Long Waiting, sounded as subtle as you would expect from these two masters of the oblique. Hall/Wheeler – review 2012-11-19T17:55:05Z

The text’s use of different languages — including German, French, English, Greek, Finnish, Spanish and Czech — prompted Saariaho to employ similarly varied vocal techniques, such as folk, Sprechstimme and lyrical, rhythmic speech. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

A moody, lyrical and sometimes haunting middle section preceded the Allegro finale, a rambunctious conclusion with vigorous exchanges between viola and cello. Music Review: Clarinets and Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-01T20:47:40Z

Mr. Lieberson was an eloquent voice in the generation of composers seeking to infuse the thorny rigors of academic music with a more accessible, lyrical sound. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

The movement was deeply Afrocentric, preoccupied by obscure samples sourced from rare vinyl, and resistant to violence and misogyny as lyrical themes. The Tribe Flies High Like a Dove 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

With six nominations, the lyrical “Moonlight” has slightly deeper support; the hardscrabble “Manchester” has five, including one for Casey Affleck’s acting. What to Watch for at the Golden Globes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images Neruda Songs contains some of the most unabashedly lyrical music that any American composer has produced since Gershwin. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z

Yet curiously, it was the distinctly lyrical aura of German Romanticism in the horn-writing that may ensure its place in the repertoire alongside the Brahms Op. Cheltenham festival opening – review 2012-07-06T15:16:29Z

Per Kirkeby, a celebrated Danish painter and the exhibition’s oldest participant, is represented by just one lyrical canvas combining gestural abstraction and landscape. Art Review: Chilly Scenes (and Sounds) of Scandinavia 2011-07-07T21:56:29Z

It's the same story in Grieg's second sonata, with passages of great lyrical sensitivity alternating with playing that loads the music with so much emotional weight, it threatens to collapse under it. Franck; Grieg; Jan??ek: Violin Sonatas ? review 2010-12-02T22:34:00Z

He was funny, lyrical and – most startling of all – honest. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z

The tone of the younger Kahn’s film was lyrical, loving, sad and sympathetic. Louis Kahn: Extraordinary architect, complex family man 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

His prose, as always, is richly lyrical and deftly made. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

The lyrical freedom allowed by the musical experimentation is refreshing, especially after previous releases like Confessions and Raymond v. Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z

In a first novel full of deceptive simplicity, lyrical language and playful Igbo mythology and humour, he uses the madman’s apocalyptic vision for the family as a way of conjuring up Nigeria’s senseless body politic. Fathers and sons 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Scherzo of Schumann’s quartet began in an agitated whisper from which the lyrical melody rose, polished and shapely. Review: ‘Romantic Piano Quartets,’ From Chamber Music Society 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jarvaise describes them as elegant abstractions in the lyrical style then known as Abstract Impressionism. Robert Therrien Gets a Solo Show at the Albright-Knox 2013-07-12T11:57:00Z

The conductor Patrick Summers, a seasoned hand in Mr. Heggie’s music, provided a gracious, lyrical flow and suitably stormy climaxes. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

I doubt if Griffiths was specifically aware of Jones’ lyrical painting “Midsummer” when he was layering his grids on top of his dyes, but the similarity of artistic concept is striking. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The play has an angry, lyrical opening, as Lena addresses the audience — or maybe the playwright — directly. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

She even managed to throw in lyrical dancers performing to Nina Simone’s “Lilac Wine.” Beyoncé’s Coachella performance wasn’t just pure entertainment; it was a historic cultural moment 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

But now, Perry, 29, from whom he split in February, might be trying her hand at the lyrical blast. Commence musical quibbling! Katy Perry may pen John Mayer song 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Melrose, giving the performance of a lifetime, charts Wozzeck's disintegration with unflinching veracity and an extraordinary expressive range that veers from lyrical intensity to snarl or eerie falsetto. Wozzeck – review 2013-05-12T13:50:43Z

His lyrical evocations are always tempered by detailed, complex analysis. Orlando Figes and the Russian civil war 2010-04-28T10:23:00Z

Kylián's successors, choreographic duo Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, present Subject To Change, a lyrical duet set against an aggressive male quartet, and there's new work from newly appointed associate choreographer Johan Ingers. This week's new dance 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

It is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party’s over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion. Oliver and Elio Are Back 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

But they were no less impressive pulling back into soft, lyrical passages. Music Review: Lots of Vocal Firepower for ?Elijah? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-06T21:30:00Z

Other works are more lyrical, with plaintive, folk-tinged vocal lines stretched over somber, spare accompaniments. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Yet the ballet doesn’t sing to us, move us, and for this absence of lyrical force you must look to the music. Critic?s Notebook: From Nancy Goldner, ?More Balanchine Variations? 2011-11-28T22:39:50Z

Andros’s words are well matched with Morstad’s evocative artwork, conjuring a gentle, lyrical version of what used to be the dominant American immigration story. Picture Books Tell Children the Harsh Stories of Migrants and Refugees 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Much has already been made of recent single, Little Things, and its bizarre lyrical tack that seeks to reassure a girl with body image problems, but only itemises her perceived imperfections. Are One Direction really as wholesome as they appear? 2013-01-21T16:15:12Z

A selection of opera scenes, which the ensemble previously recorded, showed off the multifaceted colors that brass instruments can produce, including velvet-soft horns and lyrical trombones. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z

On this cut from the Elusive Chanteuse’s 14th studio album, Carey navigates a stuttering, soulful arrangement with her typical vocal agility and lyrical dexterity. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Derek’s own way with words was at once epic and immediate, physical, literal, abstract, lyrical, guttural. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

And there are inevitably moments when Barry is too lyrical by half, though it’s easy enough to write off such moments as the cost of his gift. Kevin Barry’s Stories of Yearning Swing Between Pathos and Humor 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Somehow, the Man in Black was able to combine deep lyrical depression with an exciting, driving musical accompaniment. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

New songs like "A Lie Gets Halfway `Round the World ..." and "Coathangers" show he hasn't lost his lyrical bite. Graham Parker back with his band after 3 decades 2012-12-06T17:46:06Z

The violence recedes amid long, lyrical scenes of horse breaking and hunting. Review: Netflix’s ‘Godless,’ a Western With a Little Bit of Everything 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

I once read that Liz Fraser stopped writing comprehensible lyrics after the first Cocteau Twins album got a slating for its lyrical content. Old music: Cocteau Twins – Crushed 2013-03-21T07:00:00Z

Vividly lyrical, her music has been highly acclaimed, especially Hadestown, her extraordinary 2010 concept album and folk opera – a modern take on the myth of Orpheus attempting to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z

Ms. Monk’s new “Realm Variations” was energized when Catherine Payne played the improbably lyrical piccolo part and when Ms. Monk was singing, her voice warmly fragile. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z

Again, the magpie imagination was in evidence: the futuristic soundscapes of German groups, Kraftwerk and Neu!, aligned to the cut-up style of lyrical composition that Bowie had absorbed years before from the Beat writers. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z

While many designers work with artists and musicians to produce lyrical and even majestic collections, van Herpen is more inclined to work with computer programmers, nanorobotics scientists and biologists. Iris van Herpen’s astonishing designs don’t look like ‘clothes.’ They look like the future. 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

When the script emphasizes spectacle or it develops a lyrical edge or it threatens to turn into a ghost story, Sullivan smoothly shifts gears. ‘Consuming Spirits’: Animated epic heads into Appalachian backwoods 2013-01-31T22:43:36Z

As Sorey told The Times, “The lyrical content is timeless, and I wanted to create something musically to reflect what we’re experiencing now.” This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The great Stephen Sondheim himself might find it tricky work to make lyrical magic of the relationships among the various civic entities charged with approving land-use deals in New York City. | 'In the Footprint': A Brooklyn Civics Lesson, Offered in Word and Song 2010-11-23T23:00:00Z

Hughes intended his translation to be performed on stage, not simply read, and it's not hard to imagine a modern audience thrilling to this bloody, lyrical, utterly accessible version. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

“On the one side is the beautiful, lyrical and Romantic music of Tchaikovsky, which is a very feminine side,” Mr. Trelinski said. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

But most of the pieces are ruminative and lyrical, with lacy spiraling figures, searching melodic lines, tender tunes played in hushed harmonics. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

“We want to be the first suit a millennial or Gen Z customer buys,” Mr. Grieder said, before beginning to wax lyrical about “the suit of tomorrow.” Can Hugo Boss Actually Be Cool? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

In the moments when listeners are able to tear themselves away from the band’s sticky, simple guitar lines, they’re rewarded with a lyrical wit and intelligence that nicely complements Rankin’s erudite persona. REVIEW: Alvvays Make Sunny Guitar-Pop Gold on Self-Titled Debut 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

This isn't the first time Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" received a lyrical update. Here's the "We Didn’t Start the Fire" revamp with lyrics covering 1989-2023 no one asked for 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

“The book is fraught, forensic, lyrical and fierce, at long last searching the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service itself. It’s a superb and fitting final novel.” John le Carré Fans Are Getting One More Novel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

And “Psycho” wouldn’t be “Psycho” without Herrmann’s music, which, even when lyrical, puts you on edge. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

More than the details, the overall impression was strikingly consistent from song to song, with sprinklings of dissonance over generically lyrical foundations. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

Most appreciated in his own time for his lyrical landscapes of the Russian countryside and his Orientalist scenes, Polenov is now increasingly valued for his figurative work. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

He was game for a wide range of colors — savage attacks and pale whispers — but the atmospherics were less precise and varied: in lyrical passages he tended to be square. Music Review: Vadim Repin and Itamar Golan at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-19T21:51:00Z

“Piano Lesson” is Jude’s “favorite play ever,” and Loewith waxes lyrical about how deeply it influenced him watching it on Broadway as a college student. A post-racial America? August Wilson would disagree

The play’s lyrical subtitle is a tipoff about how wispy this gets. Review | A world-class physicist and a history-making singer walk into a play 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Inspired, of course, by the painting and set to a libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky, this opera traces a fictional story of the picture’s theft and return, set to von Schillings’s lyrical score. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

This is the gift "I Know This Much Is True" offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Over the last few years, he has emerged as a commercial force in Nashville, a songwriter with a unique melodic and lyrical touch, and an uncommon knack for hits. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z

Still, speech was no longer speech but something more lyrical. Is 'The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer' even opera? Why nearly 50 years later it stands apart 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

In the pensive Andante, he played the mournful melodic line with lyrical suppleness while eerily articulating the delicate rhythmic figure that runs through the music obsessively. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Pulse,” for small ensemble, begins with the strings making swooping lyrical lines, as at the start of “Appalachian Spring”: The mood is one of emerging, arising. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Koala met Del to riff on some musical and lyrical concepts. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z

A four-way tie for first place may look like wanton indecisiveness, but to me these lyrical, visionary documentaries add up to an indelible composite portrait of America right now. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

This whole scheme is laid out in a voice that belongs only to Adjei-Brenyah, who bends the lurid into the lyrical — pretty words about hideous deeds. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

But both are lyrical tales of regret and failing remembrance that highlight Mr. Buarque’s gift for narrative and the telling detail. Books Of the Times: ‘Spilt Milk’ by Chico Buarque 2012-12-23T22:01:52Z

But it was in the lyrical ardour of some of Brahms's second subjects, and the andante second movement of the sonata, that she reached real heights. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

The early lyrical works, written when Pinter was a young actor touring in Ireland, can feel like Yeatsian pastiches from a man who has yet to come into his own voice. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z

Ms. Kubota took a more lyrical turn in the 1980s in works like “River” and “Rock Video: Cherry Blossoms,” which reflected her Buddhist upbringing and reverence for the natural landscape. Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

In both its self-referential, backward-glancing sound and its lyrical preoccupations, “Midnights” is a record about stasis, arrested development, and that liminal time between yesterday and tomorrow. Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

On the R. Kelly-penned ballad "Fortunate," Maxwell visited lyrical waterfalls, surveyed the sunshine and moonbeams while his band delivered quiet-storm accompaniment. BET 2014: Maxwell, Jill Scott offer love and desire at Staples Center 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Oshii ditched the wisecracks and technical esoterica for a lyrical, atmospheric film set in what looks like Hong Kong, its rainy, neon-lit streets teeming with humans and robots and combinations thereof. The Live-Action Birth of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

It remains more lyrical than some of his others: the scherzo, for instance, less driving, and the full second movement with an almost Hollywood air to its grandiloquence, at least in Eschenbach’s reading. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

You also have the springboard for this wide-ranging, digressive, lyrical, meditative, repetitive and deeply considered book by poet Stanley Plumly. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly

He’s a sneakily lyrical rapper — bursting with pugnacious talk but also wry. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

It represented a break with the lyrical and poetic description of nature, I had thought, and when I read the poem aloud to the others it seemed to have that function. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Peroni, I was all set to issue a rejoinder; to wax lyrical about the classic hours that have flown past me with barely a pause for breath, never mind clockwatching. Edinburgh comedy notebook: Is an hour too long for a comedy set? 2011-08-23T13:27:40Z

The two musicians and mutual fans bonded over their similarly forthright lyrical styles, in a conversation on Monday. Q. and A.: Conor Oberst and Lorde Find Common Ground 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I am trying to present lyrical episodes of everyday life,” he wrote. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

With Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side – a louche, lyrical ramble in downtown bohemia? Get rich or die tryin': how hip-hop changed the world 2011-08-10T14:29:52Z

It’s a similar tactic, he says, to one he used in “The English Patient,” which shares the lyrical prose and intricate narrative of “Warlight.” In ‘Warlight,’ Echoes of Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

He attempted a reggae-fueled comeback in 2008 with the album "Vibes," which didn't contain any rapping, before he returned to his lyrical roots on his most recent effort, "Love Opus," which was released in September. Heavy D leaves lasting final lyric: 'BE INSPIRED!' 2011-11-09T12:03:15Z

There are stretches of thick, tart block chords, searching lyrical lines, mysterious washes of sound and delicate strands, brought together compellingly in Zhu’s account. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The book is lurid and lyrical, a confession wrapped in an account of the societal blight that afflicted America’s black neighborhoods from the Depression to the civil rights era. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The xx’s self-titled debut introduced that style of silence interlaced with brittle hooks, gorgeously building drones, and haunting lyrical interplay that simultaneously called to mind frozen Russian landscapes and smoke-stained Manchester nightclubs. The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist 2012-09-05T16:00:49Z

Be Lucky includes lyrical references to Australian rockers AC/DC and French electro band Daft Punk and will be included in a double album featuring the group's greatest hits. The Who unveil first song since 2006 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

In often lyrical stories, she recognizes ailments that elude her colleagues. A Doctor Argues That Her Profession Needs to Slow Down, Stat 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The award-winning novelist, poet and essayist died in 2017, but this year brings a final collection of his lyrical, sometimes mystical pieces about life and its gifts. Review | The best books to read — and gift — in December 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

He brought lyrical grace and rich detail to “The Seasons.” Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z

His preoccupations include art history, architecture, cinematic space and the acts of making, and his films are invariably finely crafted, rhythmic and lyrical. This week's new film events 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

Can anyone name the person who played the lyrical French horn part at the beginning of the “Star Trek” theme song? Readers reflect on the staying power of Beatlemania and mourn the loss of Gene Wilder 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

The rhythms and moods of this harmonically rich work, at first peacefully lyrical and then frantic, were mirrored by Mr. Rosner’s images. Music Review: A Violinist Layers Bach With Relative Newcomers 2011-01-31T23:34:50Z

Most prominent, though, are the songs – top-heavy lyrical odysseys from this self-styled "Aryan librarian at the word Smithsonian", whacked out on a poor, abused keyboard. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z

With so much Christian music on the charts, it’s no longer a style, but simply a lyrical perspective. Christian Music’s Moment: How TobyMac and Lecrae Conquered the Countdown 2012-09-17T14:00:32Z

Beethoven explored different styles and broke new ground; Mr. Lieberson, after studying and incorporating 12-tone techniques into his scores, rejected academic formulas for a more lyrical, engaging aesthetic. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

In the central, romantic section Elizabeth Wallace and Charles McCall showed a beautifully lyrical flow of movement on Saturday, while Jillian Harvey and Chase Swatosh gave more abandoned and emotionally affecting performances on Tuesday. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop 2010-06-10T22:22:00Z

In the lyrical version of what happened as the storm approached, we would have stopped talking and taken seriously the pleasure of our bodies. Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

But clearly you cannot grow up in a country as enamored of opera and song as Italy and not develop a lyrical streak. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z

We see him hustle his way into the offices of Roc-A-Fella to rap for whomever is present, even office assistants, since nobody believed in his lyrical skills. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Jones’s film brings analytical clarity and lyrical insight to Hitchcock’s achievements, as channelled through Truffaut’s passionate and probing questions and studies. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

It's funny and visually immaculate; it combines domestic intimacy with an epic sweep and has a lyrical, mysterious quality that perfumes every scene, whether tragic or comic. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Although he waxes lyrical about the Outback – how the early morning mist "turns red and violent then hard and warm" – Jagger misses Europe with its "renaissance houses and medieval gardens". Mick Jagger's secret love letters up for sale 2012-11-09T15:59:01Z

She is a very exact writer, who is unsparing of her characters: a tonic, sharp, lyrical, intelligent novelist who deserves to be better-known in English. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

But mainly his idealization reflected an optimistic temperament that seems to have been drawn to the best in people and nature and registered on the aesthetic spectrum between lyrical and neo-Classical. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

This lyrical and richly empathetic novel won the National Book Award, and was named one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. New in Paperback: ‘Anatomy of Terror,’ ‘Less’ and More 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Williams, for all his lyrical lavishness, is an expert at recycling, at making a given theme do many different things in the course of a film. Music Review: John Williams Birthday Concert at Tanglewood 2012-08-19T21:48:18Z

This past Thanksgiving weekend, he made headlines when a years-old lyrical feud with the rapper-turned-pastor Ma$e reignited — but that was a mere sideshow. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zverev is a fine dancer and a good partner, with a lyrical line and easy jump. Ratmansky’s ‘Concerto’ Shines in Mariinsky Triple Bill in London 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps the wistful lyrical pas de deux when Joy dances to one of Riley’s favorite memories of skating on a frozen Minnesota lake? Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In the Rachmaninoff preludes, he showed a willingness to hold back and linger over a nice lyrical turn or point up a harmonic shift between outbursts of heroic pianism. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist, at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T07:20:07Z

Ms. McBride, the author of “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing,” said she was struck by “the alignment of extraordinarily lyrical prose with incredibly brutal content.” ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

A lyrical detour to a Kazakh dive bar features Eden’s rules for heavy drinking: “You should be in good health, not stressed, and certainly not argumentative or maudlin,” she writes. Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

By framing Marceau’s life as a lyrical ode, we aren’t bogged down by dates and key accomplishments. The powerful silence of mime artist Marcel Marceau 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The Post’s director of photography, MaryAnne Golon, said Tugnoli has “a gorgeous and lyrical style. . . . He uses light and composition beautifully. He is respectful to his subjects, most of whom are often in vulnerable situations.” Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Yet in those last 15 years or so Mr. Carter’s music, while still brilliant, became more inviting, open and lyrical. An Appraisal: Elliott Carter, Composer and Master of ‘Gear Shifting’ 2012-11-06T22:51:30Z

Maternity is both the guiding metaphor and one of the subjects of this lyrical, occasionally bombastic documentary essay by Khalik Allah. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Baraka is as adept with spare, imagistic lines as with lyrical realism. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

That same lyrical paintbrush has been used as a weapon, and he’s drawn backlash for making offensive comments. Review | Kodak Black, mired in controversy, is a tough act to reckon with 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The language Washburn employs in Mark’s monologues is lyrical and seems intended to convey the profound level on which she wants us to understand him. Review | It was a dark and stormy night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, as the talk turned to Trump . . . 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

A lot of the lyrical content is very emotional, based on real life. Sounding Out: 'I've rarely met such creative minds' 2012-07-04T11:40:57Z

Often experimental in structure, mixing diary entries with intensely lyrical passages, Mr. Konwicki’s work was not always political, though his anti-Soviet novels, published underground, are among his most esteemed works. Tadeusz Konwicki, Leading Polish Novelist and Filmmaker, Dies at 88 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“We were really able to go off of each other’s melodies and lyrical ideas because he’s just more than capable,” she said. John Legend and the musical superheroes behind his new album 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The heroine of this beautifully lyrical crime novel is a troubled Army veteran who finds herself serving as the sheriff of a small Southern town. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

But too often he coasts, churning out generically lyrical set-piece arias. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

Le Carré is, as always, a lyrical writer. John le Carré’s ‘A Delicate Truth’: a dark mix of motive and opportunity 2013-05-15T22:58:58Z

But the lyrical action scene that results — further bonding Han and Dre — is this "Kid's" emotional high point. 'The Karate Kid': Chan-Smith version has kick 2010-06-10T17:12:00Z

The quartet’s corporate sound is more appealing at lower dynamic levels than higher, and it impresses more in technically challenging passages than in lyrical ones. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Their lyrical soliloquies may find their characters in extremis. ‘For Colored Girls’ Review: Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, their frequent lyrical challenges to gender roles didn’t devolve into rote male-bashing. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

This band segues from hauntingly lyrical solo passages to ornate instrumental counterpoint to translucent, other-worldly tones with hardly a hitch. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z

The song's closing refrain — "In my life, I love you more" — suggests obvious romantic overtones, as well as a lyrical posture in which the speaker commemorates the all-encompassing power of romantic love. The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

He published more than 20 books, which ranged from lyrical accounts of the desert landscape to hard-edged investigations of political corruption, Mexican drug cartels and professional assassins. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

At its best, it is a kind of poetic descant to history, reimagining it in a lyrical and reflective mode. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The vocal lines are lyrical and mostly moderate: as clean, clear and calm as the voice of the soprano Sarah Shafer, a well-chosen soloist. Review: New York City Opera, a Quiet ‘Sunday Morning’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

It's a lyrical theme this week, so I want close reading and articulate justification. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z

The basic pulse of the 4/2 tempo can be marchlike and fateful, but the melody is lyrical and sometimes cascadingly brilliant. Dance Review: Tango Stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Miss? in Vail 2010-08-10T22:31:00Z

I laughed the first time I read those lines, delighted by their mixture of lyrical and bossy diction. He Can See the Future, but Can’t Escape It 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Which is why the em dash appears in so many contexts: lyrical fiction, news briefs, movie titles. The Em Dash Divides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

What stays with you most powerfully, though, is her ability to pack experiences of cruelty and heartbreak into evenings of lyrical dynamism. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a mostly dissonant score, often understandably emotional and troubled, with long lyrical lines in the first two movements and skittering displays for the soloist in the finale. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Under the conduction of Sarah Hicks, the Minnesota Symphony proved to be an able partner to Dessa’s lyrical effusions. Dessa's "Sound the Bells": Indie hip-hop collides with an explosive orchestral score 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Among the dwindling number of people who are paid to devote their attention to indie-rock bands, a significant proportion seem eager to wax alarmingly lyrical, as I have, about Big Thief. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

In a way, this ardent, rhapsodically lyrical and daringly long scene poignantly humanizes the demon and his beloved mortal. Review: Rubinstein’s ‘Demon’ Is Redeemed in a Rare Staging 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Lindstrand then arrived to tinkle Happy Birthday on a music box, before drifting airily through wordless vocal impressionism over the sounds of pealing bells and then into the simultaneously lyrical and dissonant Quiet Nights. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z

In a comic I needed to develop more of a lyrical, graceful, visual way or moving between scenes. Exclusive 'Fight Club 2' pages: Tyler Durden's been around for longer than we thought 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

These poems create a fragmented, lyrical landscape shaped by “Weary fears, the/ usual trials and/ a place to surmise/ blessedness.” National Book Award finalists for poetry

He opened with Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G in an exquisite performance that found a judicious balance between lyrical freedom and articulate, dancelike tempos and touch. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

Today his lyrical, graceful work occupies a place apart from the more dance theater-driven trends on the English dance scene. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z

There are plenty of subjects about which Abdel-Hamid would rather wax lyrical. Ikonika: the woman pushing dubstep forward 2010-04-08T22:20:00Z

O'Brien, in her 80s, may look like an icon and talk like an icon, but she writes like the thing itself, with prose that is scrupulous and lyrical, beautiful and exact. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

His style of conducting appears brisk, yet Karabits is also able to temper the discipline so as to embrace a much more lyrical approach to phrasing and carefully soften the effects. BSO/Karabits - review 2011-03-13T15:01:13Z

But the fractured nature of Mr. Cole’s album was echoed during the show, which followed flashes of impressive bombast and lyrical technique with moments of severe listlessness. Music Review: J. Cole at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-09-26T22:51:03Z

The language was so beautiful, the writing eloquent and lyrical. Perspective | R.J. Palacio: We met in Queens, as kids. Decades later, we reunited, as authors. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

It shows off a thumping reggae-spackled beat, her lyrical prowess and, perhaps most important, her unique fashion sense. Up Close: Azealia Banks, a Young Rapper Taking Cues From the Street 2012-02-01T23:53:01Z

Some will rave about its lyrical tone, the muted sepia tones of its palette; others may find its pace too leisurely. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

With a mix of humor, thoughtfulness and a lyrical, almost hypnotic presentation, Mr. Miler’s films drew audiences in more than 80 countries, including China, India and Japan. Zdenek Miler, Creator of Krtek the Mole, Dies at 90 2011-12-03T06:25:24Z

Osho's excitement about the rise of black women in public life, like her concluding beat-poem about hybrid British identity, is notable less for comic or lyrical ability than for her optimistic spirit. Andi Osho 2010-08-16T09:45:00Z

Even longed-for connections have their difficulties, built as they are between inherently flawed humans, and branching out to explore both sides of the conflict displays a serious lyrical maturity. Frightened Rabbit Evolves with Pedestrian Verse 2013-02-07T15:00:35Z

Its lyrical substance doesn’t really matter, because the refrain is where the real magic lies: "The Witcher" and "The Mandalorian," heroes of the gig economy 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

His rebellious move in 1962, more contrarian than calculated, was to make a dance to the not-modern, easy-on-the-ear music of Handel, a dance so light and lyrical it was almost a ballet. Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

But part of the trade-off of this album is in lyrical vividness — on most songs Drake is alluding to things more than describing them. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

The outer movements are fitful and episodic, with the piano often joining its fellow percussion instruments to create waves of propulsive music, flecked with bright colors and brief lyrical riffs. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z

Ms. Herzog, Ms. Baker and Mr. Karam do not write plays in which characters give long, lyrical speeches or engage in heated, climactic confrontations. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z

Delicately, she captures the lyrical sensitivity of the music: tracks by the jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. Malpaso Review: From Cuba, a Repertory Group in Search of Itself 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Gordon’s subtly lyrical harmonies slowly worked their way into your subconscious, and he suggested emotion rather than hitting the listener with it. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

She established herself as an important contemporary voice: a sensitive, lyrical narrator of difficult stories from the land of Faulkner and Welty. Past Lingers in Present, and the Sorrows Go On 2013-09-11T20:11:51Z

That extra time helped them turn lyrical concepts into sonic realities. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Even though she wrote against the “adjectival mania” of lyrical realism, Smith seemingly can’t help but to use language in a way that honors its grand scope. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

For example: At one point, McKenzie wrote a lyrical joke for Kermit, in which he would sing, “I remember when I was just a little piece of felt.” Magazine Preview: Bret McKenzie Meets the Muppets 2011-11-17T18:27:32Z

He was thoroughly capable and lyrical, if not always inspired. Review | The NSO’s Noseda, Met Orchestra show mutual affection at Carnegie Hall 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Each lesson is animated by a different illustrator for the film, each of whom create their own lyrical worlds. Salma Hayek on Her New Movie and Donald Trump, the 'Beast' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He played with rich colorings and flair, and brought tenderness to the lyrical musings and vigor to the bursts of chords and dizzying passagework. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z

This is a collection of works of the kind, one suspects, that make a musician want to take up the guitar and, well, play: virtuosic, flamboyant, dashing and, sometimes ineffably lyrical. Classical Playlist: J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Wu Man and More 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the Ravel concerto, he was rhythmically crisp in the opening movement, poised in the lyrical central Adagio and nimble in the concluding Presto. Pablo Heras-Casado leads the L.A. Philharmonic through a riveting performance of Ravel and Stravinsky 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

He conducts a kind of slow private dance with a sunflower, in the soft, lyrical light that is typical of Deauville, in cool Normandy. Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981 2013-04-24T18:10:11Z

He's a solo act now, with a poet's lyrical skills and a buttery low-tenor voice. 7 days of Seattle music: From Brandi Carlile to Reignwolf 2012-11-22T00:47:04Z

“I’ve got some lyrical ideas on paper that are good. I’ve started to thrash around at the piano. A lot of it is hit and miss,” he said. Phil Collins Says He is Writing Songs Again 2013-12-05T15:54:33Z

This fragmented, lyrical novel is told from the perspective of a nameless young Vietnamese girl whose family immigrates to California after the Vietnam War. Perspective | Now that Hollywood is interested in Asian stories, here are other books that should be movies 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Semblance,” written and directed by Whitney White for New York Theater Workshop, is a set of lyrical monologues about how Black women are perceived and stereotyped. When Theater Installations Aim to Make Room for Drama 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Adams’ lyrical and poignant novel about the plight of rabbits whose home was under threat became an astonishing success after it was published. 'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Dies at Age 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

A Vogue article waxed lyrical about her rubs, peels and wraps. Makeup Without the Markup 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

There is enough range just in the first movement to show off lyrical sensitivity, technical mastery and syncopated jive. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z

But there was certainly nothing chilly about the music making or the repertory: a drama-free evening of genial, lyrical pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Kicks Off a Summer Series 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He shunned European romanticism for an astringent, modernist aesthetic, writing colorful, densely scored works with complex rhythms, lyrical interludes, striking dissonances and vivid percussive elements. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Some of this is the fault of the director, Guy Joosten, whose 2005 production doesn’t emphasize enough what variety there is in an opera dominated by lyrical languor. Music Review: A Last-Minute Juliette Stands Tall in Verona 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z

Mr. Curiel waxed lyrical about Mrs. Safra’s exquisite taste in her many homes, citing “the refinement of every table and every salmon sandwich.” 'Gilded Lily' Sheds Her Treasures 2012-03-19T13:00:40Z

In the 1940s, Sekula made small abstractions favoring the grid structure, saturated colors and a lyrical, delicate sense of line. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hall specialized in lyrical, evocative landscapes whose flat color planes and geometric forms alluded to the natural world rather than describing it. Lee Hall, Artist and de Kooning Biographer, Dies at 82 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

In his lyrical effervescence and visionary passion, he saw past the end of the old world. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The finale was a remarkably fine version of the Schumann Piano Quartet, led off by spontaneous, lyrical playing by Polonsky in some of the best work we’ve heard from her. Packed house digs in to Ives, Carter at chamber fest 2013-07-23T18:17:37Z

The first signs of Mr. Pappano’s essentially lyrical approach were as evident to the eye as to the ear. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z

Bastida says the project has given her renewed respect for the lyrical quality of Morrissey's work, as well as its complex musical nature. Mexrrissey's Spanish blast of Morrissey rocks an L.A. crowd 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Nation of Millions is so jammed with data, both musical and lyrical, that I'm still finding new clues and resonances 20 years later. My favourite album: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy 2011-08-11T11:52:51Z

“His tone is sometimes plangently lyrical, sometimes sarcastically sharp,” Woolfe wrote. ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

And the whole production isn't quite as penetrating, lyrical and haunting as it clearly aspires to be. The dark side of America's first reality show 2011-04-21T14:05:00Z

Last week on Clip joint we got lyrical with steenbeck as she identified the best film clips featuring poetry. Clip joint: cats 2010-06-09T08:15:00Z

How did you achieve a blend of lyrical and didactic? Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The music subtly threads lyrical lines through passages dominated by rippling rhythmic patterns. Review: For This Young Chorus, It’s Never Too Early for Six World Premieres 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The script deflates any pretensions that Yankovic is a lyrical genius. ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The Dutchman improvised the final soliloquy from screenwriter David Peoples’ far less lyrical original script, and it instantly changes everything we’ve seen thus far. The good, the bad and the cyborgs: Westworld's robot forbears 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Lawless also merges the lyrical and the ultra-violent, with a pair of protracted romances providing welcome light relief from the often bloody set-pieces. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

The words would be heartfelt and appropriate, maybe even lyrical. Send your ex a Bieber Bomb: Passive-aggressive break-ups get a diabolical 21st century upgrade 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Wednesday brings “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,” a survey of a pioneering artist known for combining music and images of nature and the female body into some of contemporary art’s most lyrical videos and video installations. Big, Bigger and Biggest in Museum Shows 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Chasing away the gray is the reason Ms. Monks wrote her slim, lyrical memoir, which tells the physical journey of a family from one island to the next. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z

The only genuine moments of peace in the searing documentary “The Seventh Fire” come at the very beginning: lyrical shots of headlights moving forward on a long stretch of road at daybreak. Review: ‘The Seventh Fire’ Explores Drug Abuse on an Indian Reservation 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Sentimental perhaps, but there's nothing cheesy about the lyrical quality of First Aid Kit's second album, The Lion's Roar. A band of contradictions 2012-11-22T07:44:23Z

Nors’ writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Weaving together interviews with archival footage and performances, the show reflects on the members’ lyrical genius, entrepreneurship and sociopolitical consciousness, which still resonates with audiences. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Pose’ and ‘Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

As with Mapping Wales and Septet, also recorded here, the music is lyrical, melodic, good-natured and benign. John Metcalf: Paths of Songs 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

The usual lyrical themes of disappointing relationships, lowered expectations, and heartbreak are prevalent here, epitomized in the smooth “Humiliation,” whose protagonist engages in some self-indulgent, high-society despair. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z

Hands reach in from the sides to create the illusions, which are surprisingly lyrical. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle

As the performance reminded fans, Costello reached new heights in lyrical cleverness on this record. Elvis Costello returns to the Warner Theatre 38 years after a legendary performance 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Somehow it seemed more melodic, more lyrical; there was more space.” John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

“The class report challenge is always harder than it looks,” confesses Sarah Sedgwick Auchincloss, a ’71 graduate, in her lyrical note. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z

In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation “for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

So does the pressure imposed by their hard-to-please instructor, Dance Teacher Pat, to heal the world through dance in a lyrical number inspired by Gandhi. Clare Barron on ‘Dance Moms,’ Teen Girls and Black Sheep Ballerinas 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

While subterranean life is the album’s overarching lyrical theme, “Area 52” looks heavenward. Reviews of new albums from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine and Willie Nelson 2013-04-15T21:55:09Z

What he didn’t do much of was actual rapping, letting the crowd and his DJ do much of the lyrical lifting. Review | Playboi Carti: Plenty of charisma, not a whole lot of rapping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Because the score is truly timeless, a masterpiece of musical cohesion — it’s virtually all in ¾ time — and lyrical invention . Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Spencer also lists his biggest lyrical inspiration as Morrissey, while his favourite music is "rap music", which also explains a lot. New music: Jamaican Queens – Can't Say No To Annie 2013-04-24T10:00:02Z

He worked carefully at building repertory, keeping it light with elegant bel canto roles and lyrical Verdi, Massenet and Gounod. The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z

Johnson’s lyrical prose breathes life into the New York City of 200 years ago. Deep Below Rockefeller Center Lies a Legendary Botanical Garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Both weave in numerous lyrical references to Young M.A.’s original verse, an impressive display of dexterity. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The encores, as usual, were stunning: a soulful groove tune; a gleaming, Copland-esque ballad; and pristinely lyrical readings of “Miss Otis Regrets” and “It’s a Lonesome Old Town.” Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z

With her lyrical, elongated lines, Ms. Kent can look picture-perfect, but so mannered and grand ballerina was her performance, so languorous the tempo of music and dancing, that you could doze off between positions. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z

Towers heats things up on “El Calentón,” a sparse track that begins as a reggaeton jam before building to a display of his lyrical dexterity. Myke Towers Is Seizing His Moment 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Marclay is that rare artist who, having been anointed as great, continues to seek out the lyrical in what the rest of the world overlooks. Christian Marclay’s Sidewalk Animations 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Another thing that I thought about while reading "Owed" was just the lyrical bounce to it. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Like its protagonist, sensitively and shrewdly played by Lakeith Stanfield, the film is soft-spoken and thoughtful, with sweet, lyrical touches that alleviate some of the grimness without blunting the cruelty and injustice of what happened. Review: In ‘Crown Heights,’ Justice Delayed and Denied 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

In the first movement, her pace in the lyrical sections was relaxed to the point of growing slack, but allowed for exciting hard-driving transitions back to the faster material. Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Gives Xian Zhang a Handy Introduction 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

No, but Hahn’s lyrical gift — learned in part from his teacher, Massenet — is always sure, and his writing for woodwinds marvelously fluent. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Arvo Pärt and Gorczycki 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Castillo’s prose is less lyrical than propulsive, driven by rises in cadence. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Frith responded with textured scrubbing, percussive loops and discreet displays of lyrical guitar heroism. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z

The majestic beauty of the novel, deriving from Paton’s lyrical, impressionistic writing, but more powerfully from the clarity and objectivity of his observation, was sentimentalized and sanitized by Anderson in the musical version. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z

He then returned to shooting the streets of Philadelphia, where he lived, but in a more playful, lyrical manner. Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The songs are lyrical, while dramatic arrangements encompass Dixieland, string sextet and country. Anais Mitchell: Hadestown 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z

The lyrical glimpses into Rihanna’s personal life echo her dissatisfaction with her own musical legacy. Rihanna’s 'Anti' Rewrites the Rules of Her Career 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

But the sweet singing sound and sustained lyrical phrasing he produced in the Adagio offered hints of what he might be capable of under more clement circumstances. Review: American Classical Orchestra Takes on Friedrich Witt 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The title track, a quirky lyrical exercise that blends the dashed-wedding scenarios of "Runaway Bride" and "Friends in Low Places," debuted at No. 1 on iTunes. Taylor Swift ready to "Speak Now" with third album 2010-10-15T22:29:00Z

But "Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical," clearly well researched, reads more like an academic textbook than the rich and lyrical account one might hope for. What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Like the other women in this book, Rose provides us not only with lyrical passages that pierce the heart but also with moments of bracing practical toughness. Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

You can feel his heartache intensify in tandem with the song's lyrical longing. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Pop music has always permitted lyrical ingenuity, honoring wit and passion. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

And he brought nobility to the lyrical twists of the wistful Adagio. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z

The foursome brought a warm, burnished sound to the quartet’s lyrical opening, soon flecked by chord attacks so sharp they were almost crunchy. Ehnes Quartet wows crowd in closing chamber-fest concert 2014-02-03T17:59:31Z

Even with the keyboard parts largely absent, such Skull songs as “In a Perfect World” and “Debbie’s Headache” — a new number and a retooled ’80s one, respectively — sounded almost lyrical. Review | At Rhizome, Live Skull and Thalia Zedek provide echoes of ’80s post-punk 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.” Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive 2012-05-09T21:39:00Z

Lalani’s tale is a lyrical lullaby, a homage to Filipino folklore, and a skillfully made story that reminds us that even the ordinary can do extraordinary things. She’s Seeking Power, But She’s Not Power-Seeking 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Among the lyrical and mesmerizing tracks lies “Brighter!,” which features the late actress/singer Karen Black. Fall 2013 Music Preview 2013-09-06T09:45:57Z

But it was a rare, valuable opportunity to hear these grandly lyrical narratives. The George London Foundation Series, Featuring Angela Meade 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Genoways, in addition to his work as a journalist, is also a poet and a biographer of Walt Whitman, but this isn’t a particularly lyrical book. Little Farm on the Prairie 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The score is infused with jazz rhythms and filled with lyrical passages, including full-fledged arias for some of the characters. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Above it, Meredith sings in recitativelike lines that hug the words and avoid lyrical effusions. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

Similarly wide-ranging is León’s “Alma” — the lyrical opening of which follows a winding, entertaining path toward the bumptious rhythmic fillips of its central section. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Her lyrical “Nomadland” went on to win best picture — an emphatic triumph for the elegant filmmaker. Oscar moments: History, glamour … and what a weird ending 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

The title track of Hendrix’s “Valleys of Neptune,” recorded in 1970 but never before released, is another reminder of the newly fluid, lyrical direction in which he was heading before his death that September. Music: James Taylor and Marc Cohn Revive 1970 2010-08-13T17:49:00Z

In the January issue of Interview magazine, Solange is interviewed by Beyoncé and waxes lyrical about how their mother “always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work.” Catching Up With the Matriarch Behind Beyoncé and Solange 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

In hip-hop, innovations in character, texture and presentation are just as important as those in lyrical dexterity and punch lines. Review: ‘SremmLife 2’ by Rae Sremmurd Has Flashes in Its Darkness 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

The Shakes are inveterate lyrical minimalists, which used to be fine, since Howard was able to bring gravity and meaning to the flimsiest of songs on the band’s debut. Alabama Shakes’s latest is a departure gone too far 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The writer dresses up the events in her life with shifts in point of view, lyrical fragments, nonlinear storytelling, parodies, rhapsodies and a brocade of description. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Then he ups the ante, showing how these simple gestures, with subtle modification, are used to coax a fluid, lyrical performance; a playful reading; or an urgently dramatic interpretation from an orchestra. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

She encapsulated the hopeful and later deflated moods of contemporary Iran after the revolution, using a 1,100-year lyrical form of poetry known as the ghazal. Poet Behbahani, 'lioness of Iran', dies at 87: state media 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The second, “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” which mixes shaggy Waylon-style traditionalism with a dash of lyrical surrealism, reached No. 8 on the Billboard country chart and has sold more than 180,000 copies. Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

With lyrical intensity, Ms. Legler describes her teenage years as being overwhelmed by an almost existential sense of otherness. A Female Olympian Who Models Men’s Clothing 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

But the lyrical feeling of Smith’s motifs was also immediately identifiable. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Producers such as David Guetta, Calvin Harris and will.i.am have presided over a ubiquitous lowest-common-denominator mulch of pop, hip-hop and dance music whose lyrical vision rarely extends below the club VIP room. Pop music is in a sickly state – but could 2013 bring a great revival? 2013-01-01T07:00:42Z

By contrast the pictures are dramatic, striking, gorgeously lyrical. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond and Dave McKean – review 2013-06-21T17:45:01Z

But he followed that cult classic a year later with the lyrical and haunting "Picnic at Hanging Rock," which tells the "true" story of the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher in 1900. Director Peter Weir finds "Way Back" to big screen 2011-02-01T01:34:40Z

What remains are about a dozen of the oratorio’s more meditative and lyrical numbers that dramatically streamline the Nativity story. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The story hip-hop has often told about itself is that it’s a game of lyrical one-upmanship, an ecosystem of artistes looking for words others couldn’t possibly use better. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

Then, alas, he would stretch a phrase with such affected expressivity that it lost lyrical shape and cohesion. Review: Lang Lang Opens Philharmonic Season, as Avery Fisher Hall Is Renamed 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

As a fiddler, though, to reach the top, she will need to cultivate a much wider range of tone color, particularly in slow, lyrical sections; the sound was too often dry or pinched. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The play begins with yearning monologues from each character, gets sharply funny when they all show up in Macy’s, and waxes lyrical as the women gather under starlight at the end. Review | Elaine May’s porn star play leads a pack of escapist comedies 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

With Mr. Noda accompanying on the piano, Mr. Griffey lifted Dowland’s melodic lines with his ardent, powerful voice while still bringing lyrical refinement to every phrase. Music Review: Anthony Dean Griffey and Emalie Savoy at Morgan Library 2013-01-16T16:08:16Z

“Down in the Valley” is a shining example of Russell’s strength as a singer when he takes ownership of the band, and his lyrical skill. The Head and the Heart: still sweet, but challenges ahead 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Singing with lovely bloom and sensitivity, Mr. Nylund scaled down her essentially dramatic soprano voice to emphasize the lyrical eloquence of the music and the subtle emotions of this complex character. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Titled “Rain,” it’s a roving, lyrical account of a passing storm in Amsterdam that’s partly shot from speeding bicycles and trams. MoMA Gives Walther Photo Collection Multiple Platforms 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Showrunner Dee Harris-Lawrence leans heavily on the poetic imagery in the first episode, which moves more slowly than subsequent hours but establishes the tone of a drama most accurately described as lyrical. Smart Watch: “David Makes Man” and “Lodge 49,” where fantasy and reality collide 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

It has Walter’s humanely lyrical touch but goes even deeper and is even more soulful. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Electronic dance music is interspersed with lyrical guitar solos and duets and piano anthems. The cult persona of Courtney Love in 'Kansas City Choir Boy,' more concert than musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In a luminous and lyrical duet, So Young An and Jacob Larsen, bathed in cool moonlight, are continually drawn toward each other. Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

His response, which was written for the Emerson ensemble and lasts about 20 minutes, is conceived as a mirror, a single symmetrical movement of two slow, lyrical laments that surround a heart of anger. Review: Emerson String Quartet Caps Banner Season With Works of Mixed Emotions 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

In more lyrical, less Gothic mode, Poe might be a decadent reincarnation of William Blake. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z

She conveys her characters’ emotions in equally lyrical ways. Review | One instrument connects two women a world apart in ‘The Weight of a Piano’ 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

But almost more striking than the knife-edge introduction was the shapeliness Mr. Barrett brought to the first movement’s gentler, more lyrical sections and the refined shaping of the Andante. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z

Cohen played with gloriously lyrical tone, yet bore the slightly pained expression of an artist trying to concentrate through the distractions going on around him. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z

The motifs he employs are powerfully expressive: trains, motorcycles, pool halls and the all-important communal table, in its endless permutations, appear throughout his cinematic landscape, at once lyrical and fraught with narrative intensity. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Gilded mirror frames are studded with porcelain fragments, while graceful bronze chandeliers bear lyrical flourishes of plaster, rock crystal, and white marble. See William P. Sullivan's Beautiful Designs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Scratch him even a little, and he'll drop the easygoing guy's-guy facade to wax lyrical about story structure and the construction of modern mythologies. Jon Favreau: the swinger who struck gold 2010-04-29T21:00:00Z

Its style changes constantly: the vocal writing is often angular and tense, occasionally lyrical and sometimes spoken, and the instrumental scoring — for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet and harp — mirrors, punctuates and comments on it. Music Review: Signal, a New-Music Orchestra, Plays at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-05-28T21:45:00Z

Another reminder, of the reason in-person concerts are still a distant dream, is a section that follows a lyrical quotation of a Bach chorale, in which chattering winds produce aerosols captured on camera. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Read a poem aloud As you do so, your mental to-do list melts away and your thoughts still, focusing entirely on the lyrical sounds of the words. New year new you - how to be happy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Heinrich Schiff, a cellist whose lyrical, understated style and singing tone made him a profound interpreter of music from Bach through a long list of contemporary composers, died on Friday in Vienna. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In it the highway links sweeping literary ambition and local interest, lyrical and documentary photography, portraiture and the urban landscape. Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z

While their songs are lyrical, heartfelt ballads, their shaggy hair and black-leather-jacket style often looks more like The Cure than the Grand Old Opry. Young country ? The Band Perry, Scotty McCreery, Brad Paisley 2012-02-09T21:59:04Z

There was a lyrical sameness to many of Hunt’s offerings, too. Sam Hunt has the fame, but he’s not ready for it 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Namwali Serpell, called it “lyrical,” “remarkable,” and “breathtakingly skillful” in the way it manages to “solve the riddle” of how to “sing” the inherently complex idea of “the woman at war.” New in Paperback: ‘Running Home’ and ‘The Shadow King’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Opening with a jazz-rock song and lyrical, static imagery of attractive Western figures in watercolor, it features narration telling of Jean and Jeanne, young French provincial marrieds “smiled upon by God.” Review: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The salsa played here, however, isn’t an excuse to get people up and shaking their booty, but rather is appreciated for its musical, rhythmical and lyrical qualities. How Cali’s DIY dance clubs keep the spirit of salsa alive 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

At the same time, Ross’s lyrical, rhythmic writing is something to be savored. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The judge sided with jurors in dismissing Oduwole's claim he was an aspiring rapper, and that the threatening words were innocent lyrical musings. Ex-SIU student sentenced for campus threat 2011-12-21T16:54:00Z

She is a big fan of the Prancing Elites and lyrical on the subject of J-setting, in which she can trace the threads of the African diaspora in this country. The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

A competition at which poets recite original work before loud, excited audiences, a slam is as much about winning over judges through performance and persona as it is about lyrical brilliance. 'Louder Than a Bomb': the power of a youth poetry slam 2011-05-05T23:55:05Z

Hers was not a trained voice, but it was a splendidly traditional one: high, sweet, lyrical and plaintive, accompanied by the Appalachian fretted dulcimer she had learned to play as a girl. Jean Ritchie, Who Revived Appalachian Folk Songs, Dies at 92 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Proclamations from the creative team at Snapchat sound lofty and lyrical. Noted: Snapchat Without the Chat 2013-06-28T22:20:17Z

It is amorphous, decadent, lyrical, drawing inspiration from a host of countless dictators from Latin America and beyond. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Turturro grows lyrical discussing the “continuous quiver of love” that runs through the stories. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z

Derbez is a charismatic performer whose expansive lyrical flair is girded with wary reserve and thoughtful precision. “Win It All” and the Mighty Gambles of Joe Swanberg’s Moviemaking 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

In his typically lyrical telling, Heller compared DreamCrew swooping in to “when you promise your child a swimming pool and then somebody comes and is like, ‘Wouldn’t you like to have the Mediterranean Sea?’” How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Tyler, the Creator, a rapper in the hip-hop collective Odd Future, has reportedly been barred from the United Kingdom because of his provocative lyrical content. Tyler, the Creator Barred From the United Kingdom 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

There is a lyrical part followed by a percussive, rhythmic part, followed by another slow movement. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z

Köck’s text is lyrical and poetic, with rhythms and cadences of overlapping dialogue creating musical effects. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

For the most part, McCarthy sings unaccompanied, with a lyrical vocal ornamentation that's unique to the Irish Traveller tradition. Music that moves: Thomas McCarthy's Irish Traveller songs 2011-03-10T22:45:01Z

Rosenberg describes Lambert’s compositions as distinctly “adventurous,” with a “sumptuous harmonic language that was well suited to lyrical singing.” A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Actually, as Pray That I Move shows, Josephine's vocal delivery and idiosyncratic lyrical vision have more in common with Morrissey than Mahalia Jackson. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z

“Sometimes you have to make sacrifices on the lyrical content — take a hit on being profane in order for your music to be heard.” Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ Proves Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spall’s performance is quietly wrenching, the execution lyrical. Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Hushpuppy, whose wide eyes absorb scenes of tenderness and catastrophe, and whose lyrical ruminations decorate the soundtrack, is a universe in her own right and in her own mind. Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ Directed by Benh Zeitlin 2012-06-26T20:56:35Z

It looks like some kind of Abstractionist apotheosis perceived in a lyrical frame of mind without any material subject. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

The fourth episode stars Kate Micucci as a lonely music teacher whose romantic gamesmanship threatens the lyrical and luminous birth of actual romance. What to Stream This Weekend: The Third Season of Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

The whole interview was like an adaptation of a Smiths song: haughty, tender, lyrical and revelling in its otherworldly qualities. Desert Island Discs: Desert Island Discs: which episode would you take to a desert island? 2011-03-31T13:28:12Z

Luminous and lyrical, this is a tale for anyone aged nine to 90. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

London’s Guardian newspaper hailed it as a work of “blood, guts and thunder” that was “intercut with lyrical moments of physical movement, like some great dirty ballet of pulsating machismo and terrible tenderness.” ‘Black Watch,’ hailed tale of war, coming to Seattle’s Paramount 2013-04-17T19:09:22Z

Unesco waxes wistfully lyrical on a whole idealised lifestyle that may appear to have little to do with the modern Mediterranean as we know it. What actually is the Mediterranean diet – and does it work? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

And few are more deserving – and more timely – than the extraordinary Fire at Sea, a film about the migrant crisis which is as lyrical as it is unflinching. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

He can be a classicist, a ballet historian, a lyrical pure-dance modernist, a comic cartoonist, a riveting children’s storyteller or an adult commentator on gender and society. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her poetic way and lyrical grace in the slow movement were particularly beautiful, and she brought what seemed a touch of Portuguese dance to her spirited account of the final rondo. Review: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performs With Panache 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Even though the world of lyrical poetry is data poor—there are only so many sonnets available on the Internet—Ghazvininejad and her collaborators realized that the nearby world of song lyrics is data rich. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Jay-Z enters his sixth decade still close to the height of his lyrical powers, still pop culture’s most visible avatar of late capitalism. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Regardless of the source material, whether it’s more classical or popular music, there is this approach where Theo really gets inside the song and the lyrical content,” Mr. Bragin said. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z

“Voyage of Time” is, as its title suggests, a sort of cinematic cosmogony, a lyrical collage that looks at a broad spectrum of natural phenomena artistically and imaginatively. Terrence Malick’s Metaphysical Journey Into Nature 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The music shifts between a modernist, atonal idiom and a more lyrical romanticism, and Mr. Wheeldon responds with a similar choreographic range. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z

At times haunting, at times filled with shimmering lyrical passages and at times maddeningly slow, the first opera by the 38-year-old singer-songwriter showed promise and was greeted with an enthusiastic response. `Prima Donna' has US premiere at Brooklyn Academy 2012-02-20T16:57:08Z

Mr. Moe’s lyrical “What Instruments We Have Agree” pays tribute to the composer Lee Hyla, who died last year. Review: Counter)induction at the Church of the Intercession 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trifonov brought striking clarity to the wandering lyrical lines that thread through the music and savored the pungent sonorities of dense, chromatic chords. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

She's just being Madonna, an artist who has long prospered by matching her vision with track-makers and lyrical collaborators at their own creative peaks. Madonna channels defiance and devotion on confident 'Rebel Heart' 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jansons, always an eloquent interpreter of Russian music, kept the spotlight on Rachmaninoff’s lyrical inventiveness, but it remained a parade of appealing episodes rather than an exciting whole. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z

Moxxy advances on the group's eponymously titled 2009 debut, the music sounding both deep-rooted and as modern as the moment – spikily abstract at times, gracefully lyrical or traditionally rock-bluesy at others. Troyka: Moxxy - review 2012-06-07T21:40:01Z

On the face of it, this is an odd duo, but Mr. Bell, the lyrical, pristine violinist, and Mr. Denk, a cheeky and offbeat pianist, make for a fine partnership. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

“The answer is that things overlap, but her lyrical writing creates a distance from everyday events and never raises gossipy curiosity.” Jamaica Kincaid Isn’t Writing About Her Life, She Says 2013-02-04T23:08:15Z

A magnetic performer with equally strong lyrical skills, she's one of the woefully few female artists who made the Coachella cut. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

As always, Mr. Bell’s tone was rich, warm and finely focused, and he moved easily between the score’s punchy passages and its lyrical flights. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival, Louis Langrée Conductor 2012-08-19T21:50:48Z

The piano surges with Lisztian tremolos, and the soprano part alternates jaunty sputtering with high lyrical flights. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z

Because June turns out to be sharp and observant–and a wizard at lyrical coinages–she gives you permission to laugh at those other rednecks, further down the hierarchy of redneckitude. The Morning After: Honey Boo Boo Don’t Care 2012-08-09T14:36:08Z

Reminiscent of such heavenly Hollywood fantasies as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," Peru's "Undertow" suggests a more passionate, lyrical tale of a soul in search of a body. 'Undertow': a heavenly ghost story of forbidden love 2011-01-20T22:48:38Z

And as for lyrical leitmotifs, there are none, although at a guess the fragility of existence and the challenges faced during everyday change are being tentatively explored here. New band of the day: Caveman (No 1,546) 2013-07-04T14:23:00Z

In truth, “At Home in the World” is a sweeping coming-of-age story, by turns stark, lyrical, eerie, and self-lacerating, with long sections that have nothing to do with Salinger. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Room 25” followed last year, doubling down on lush, live instrumentation and lyrical truths so dense it seemed like she was running out of room on the page and scribbling syllables in the margins. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

His new “The Midnight Life” shows a chronicler as keenly lyrical as at any point in his career, or, as he puts it, “Back on the scene with no cracks on my screen.” Essential tracks: New from Ariana Grande, Ariel Pink and more 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Opening as a lovely lullaby, it deepened into emotional turmoil without losing its lyrical core — a winsome singing line turned dark in the left hand while the right hand scaled up and down the keyboard.  A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Scarlet” is a fascinating, slippery movie filled with lyrical beauty, acts of barbarism, moments of magic and unexpected hope. Cannes Film Festival 2022: Politics Mixed With Moments of Grace 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

If you can wade through the Lone Ranger references and lyrical acrobatics, there's a half-decent melody here intent on getting its hooks into your grey matter. This week's new tracks 2013-01-05T00:06:14Z

An expansive, at times breathtaking feat of production wizardry and instrumental and lyrical acumen, "You're Dead!" sucks the listener through a wormhole and into the realm of genre-free rhythm music. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Dessay sang three such pieces, with Rachmaninoff’s hauntingly lyrical “Vocalise” the best known. Music Review: Spending the Afternoon With a Femme Fatale 2011-05-16T21:51:57Z

Embodied by Eddie Redmayne, the title character of “Richard II” is seated, eyes closed, in full view of the audience before the start of Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s lyrical history play. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z

It is a beautiful and lyrical look at grief, told by a chorus of mourners. Helen Humphreys' top 10 books on grieving 2013-04-10T12:02:25Z

Hejinian's autumn is less lyrical, more American, perhaps, than Thomas's version, but underneath the surface many of the concerns being voiced are remarkably similar. Poster Poems: October 2012-10-05T12:51:18Z

Without her piano and voice, the group’s music was less lyrical, if no less intricate. Rumba artist Pedrito Martinez gets the party started at Kennedy Center Jazz Club

Jared Matthews is a blandly pleasant Lensky, lively and lyrical though without vulnerability. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Onegin,’ at Metropolitan Opera House 2012-06-05T21:29:30Z

It's a recurring theme: no florid lyrical conceits, but an appealingly wavering vocal that still hits its marks. Best Coast – review 2012-06-20T09:22:24Z

There she hit on her signature device: finishing her lyrical stain paintings with one or two lengths of neon that extend up or across their surfaces, their draped cords and adapters on display. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It's relentlessly nihilistic, in a way that grime, with its roots in UK garage clubs, and lyrical contrasts between aggression and more witty, playful tracks about partying and relationships, never has been. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

The vibrant First etude pulsates with slow-blooming melodic cells, while the Second soothes like a lullaby and the lyrical Eighth unfolds like a song without words. Recording reviews: a Glass harpist, arias for Farinelli 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The shimmering start of the prelude to Act I was fragile without being wispy, building with lyrical flow to a stirring climax. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

This led to Florence Price’s wistfully lyrical Andante cantabile movement from her 1935 String Quartet No. 2, which came across with glowing richness in this version for string ensemble. Review: Sphinx Virtuosi Bring an Intriguing Vision to Carnegie Hall 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

There’s just no lyrical way to write a sentence in which you use the words “email” or “internet,” you know what I mean? Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Dance, in Doug Fitch’s evocative costumes, “goes from lyrical, classical things to almost performance art,” she said. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

In Balanchine’s “Sonatine,” Woodward, a recently named principal, and Antony Huxley, were delicate and lyrical; together, their bodies sang. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Then, by 2016’s “Puberty 2,” distorted guitars and a precisely measured lyrical map that pinpointed desire and desolation became synonymous with her music. Review | Indie artist Mitski expresses songs with voice and legs 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

There Is a Season is a lyrical masterpiece to be treasured by all recovering alcoholics, avid gardeners and lovers of Annie Dillard and Thoreau. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

Though some might dismiss their work as miserablist dirge, an Eeyored monologue backed by guitars, this would be to overlook the National's keen sense of lyrical humour, their delight in language and musical experimentation. The National: 'Our songs are about death – but in really fun ways' 2013-05-10T06:00:10Z

Strikingly honest, lyrical, untouched by sentimentality, “In Other Words” chronicles as philosophical and quotidian a courtship with a language as Ovid’s “The Art of Love” does with amore itself. ‘In Other Words’ review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s love letter to Italian 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

This is perhaps the annotation site's biggest coup yet, and proof that hip-hop artists at all levels are paying attention to it as a more or less definitive lyrical and storytelling resource.  Eminem annotates Genius lyrics, compares himself to Lisa Lampanelli 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Dan O’Brien’s “The Body of an American,” a lyrical, untidy and ultimately poignant work of theater is a ghost story. Review: ‘The Body of an American’: Ties Created by War 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Her writing, although lyrical, proceeds with a precise, searching sobriety—each sentence a controlled swoon. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Even at age seven, I recognized that his lyrical flow and raw grit was something special. We miss you, Biggie: The Notorious B.I.G. remains hip-hop’s greatest storyteller 20 years after his death 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Dr Heaton said: "They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony." Mick Jagger's letters sent to secret lover sell for £187,250 2012-12-12T21:32:19Z

Young’s lyrical new collection is about family, about death and about how families absorb and repurpose loss; the stones here bear names and life spans. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Created by "In Treatment's" Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi, "The Affair" is a lyrical, disturbing portrait of the imperfection, and manipulation, of memory. TV Picks: 'The Affair,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'Walking Dead' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the process, the already high-bar of Sondheim’s lyrical virtuosity vaulted several notes higher. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

But the stop-start Cantonese dialect spoken in Hong Kong and neighboring Guangdong is perfect for another lyrical style — rap. Hong Kong Rappers to Reunite in Macao 2010-04-20T10:01:00Z

There are moments of lyrical flight, and Mr. Szot made the most of them, singing with rich, virile sound and plaintive phrasing. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z

Is it a lyrical, nostalgic coming-of-age story interrupted by an excursion into the origins of the universe and bracketed by a journey to the end of time? Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

There’s also Bing Crosby improvising a monologue about liverwurst sandwiches, some bombs falling on World War II Europe, and legendary composer Irving Berlin painting himself into lyrical corners resolved by rhyming “finger” with “humdinger.” Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

He was crowned a lyrical genius for his precocious “Earl” mix tape in 2010, when he was just a teen. Earl Sweatshirt isn’t letting fame hold him down anymore 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

But this is an aspect of the lore attached to "The Sandman," Neil Gaiman's lyrical masterpiece: it spent years trapped in the agonizing plane know as Development Hell. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

Because that prose is a marvellous instrument, capable of lyrical surprises and the rawest plainness, at once highly constructed and spillingly oral. My hero: Philip Roth by James Wood 2013-03-22T16:00:06Z

He excellently conveyed the inner workings of subtly sophisticated scores with a lyrical grace but also theatricality. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

He’s an erudite, lyrical, enthusiastic and exceptionally well-read guide. Review: ‘Landmarks,’ a Book on Language and Landscape 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Its sentences are straightforward, fine but unadorned, which makes the occasional lyrical climb more breathtaking. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

Instead, her coaxing of swells of warm string tone caused lyrical phrases to float from otherwise bland, insufficiently characterized terrain. An uneven evening at Grant Park for de la Parra 2011-07-10T07:00:00Z

His is a profound and lyrical love affair but it does have its disconcerting moments: "There's something sexual about whales," he writes at one point. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare; Feral by George Monbiot – review 2013-06-03T07:00:04Z

Personal, lyrical and emotionally involving, "Pas de Deux" is not, as Tovey pointed out in his opening remarks, pictorial in a soundtrack-ready way. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

There’s little irony in it, just straight-up classical lyrical brilliance powerful enough to draw you into an alien mind and time. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z

A quiet, lyrical and profound piece of writing. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z

Writing as compassionate and lyrical as this can indeed sustain one throughout a long year. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

There's a lyrical artistic presentation throughout these episodes. "Justice requires repair": Nikole Hannah-Jones on why Hulu's "1619 Project" is essential viewing 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

"I don't think the lyrical concerns have altered particularly." Nick Cave: 'The greatest feat of artistic honesty would be to retire' 2013-02-15T05:39:45Z

Like previous entries in their catalogue, Trouble is littered with an endless plethora of quotable lyrical phrases that hide between the choruses. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z

Kirsten Johnson’s lyrical documentary pulls footage from her work as a documentary cinematographer, using candid moments from the cutting-room floor of her storied career. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Cameraperson’ and ‘The Untitled Action Bronson Show’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

In the funky Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago, the capital of Chile, is a house that is as playful, quirky, colorful, political, historical and even lyrical as the great man who once lived in it. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

In his article, Coates is unstinting, yet lyrical, in his criticism of the powerful forces of America’s past and the decision-makers and activists of its present. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle

Although named after a region in the Himalayas, Jimmy Page has cited southern Morocco as the lyrical influence for the song. ...would have to be Kashmir. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z

This 11-minute episodic work is like a suite in itself, full of lyrical bursts and swirling passagework broken up with feisty dance episodes. Review: Piotr Anderszewski Goes for Dim Lights and Intimacy at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

They began with "Enter the Ninja," the track that launched them to international attention, Ninja's lyrical swirl of daft boasts and wide-eyed humility endearing, his thousand-yard-leer equally comical and threatening. South African hip-hop crew Die Antwoord tangles with Paramount audience 2010-10-14T20:31:00Z

As Shalimar, the tenor Sean Panikkar demonstrated versatility and stamina, his voice supple and bright in the earlier lyrical exchanges, taut with a glint of hysteria as jealous fury took over. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Alala deepens this simple, fable-like premise into a lyrical confrontation with the certitudes of faith and the life-giving powers of doubt. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

And much of the time we might be watching one of those lyrical ballets in which attractive young dancers respond prettily to the strains of Dvorak or Janacek. Dance Review: Smuin Ballet Performs ‘Oh, Inverted World’ at the Joyce 2012-08-15T22:30:56Z

Over 10 albums, she has maintained a mystical lyrical sensibility and sophisticated production, often breaking boundaries for female musicians, on the charts and in the recording studio, where she produced her own work. Kate Bush Fans Travel to See Rare Concerts in London 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The lyrical narration framing the film alludes to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s departure from Genoa on his unification campaign of 1860. Finding Poetry in a Couple?s Pain 2011-07-29T20:01:01Z

Jenkins' "Moonlight," a lyrical portrait of a gay black kid growing up poor in Miami, like most of the other films due this fall, was conceived long before the Oscar diversity crisis. Long-silent voices speak loudly at Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Basically for the Bellas, life may be lyrical, but it is also a constant cycle of fighting their way back from some kind of terrible mess. 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Like Munro, Hadley is a writer both exact and lyrical, and there are many pleasures to be found along the way, particularly her sensual descriptions of nature, adolescence and maternity. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

Genet’s novel is an erotic fever dream — obscene, lyrical, outrageous, onanistic. Review: In ‘Genet Porno,’ Yvan Greenberg Leaves Little to the Imagination 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the restrained, lyrical slow movement, Ax proved sensitive to Mozart’s evocations of his operatic aria style. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

“A Bid to Save the World” is instead a lyrical meditation on loss using loosely interwoven stories, songs, incantations and poetry, and the result is a drama that is equal parts moving and confounding. ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival

This lyrical debut novel, which recalls a Southern Gothic tale, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year. Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bloom’s lyrical novel, laced with her characteristic wit and wisdom, celebrates love in its fiery and also embered phases, while McNees’s more politically detailed fiction has Hick’s ultimate solitude, and her disappointment, at its heart. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Life, as Fodder for Fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

But unlike “i,” this aggressive track is much darker in its production and lyrical content, with Lamar meditating on race in America and violence. Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped a New Song 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

"For the first time," he says, in French-roughened English, "I see a musical with so many lyrical ideas, with so many inventions, with a new style, with a new way to approach the musicals." Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

From Djibouti’s lyrical “Djibeauty” to Ukraine’s “It’s All About U,” slogans aim to woo visitors. ‘Yes, it’s Jordan’: World tourism slogans range from lovely to laughable 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

In scene after scene, the characters break into seemingly inevitable, luxurious lyrical flights. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The role is a tour de force for a soprano who can combine alluring long-spun lyrical singing with dazzling, sometimes demonic, coloratura flights. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z

Just below the surface, the music sizzles with modernist harmonies, fractured phrases, gaggles of counterpoint and lyrical strands that keep breaking into skittish bits. Thomas Adès Brings Fresh Wildness to the Boston Symphony 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

His voice has depth, body and lyrical allure. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

"In this design you will be able to hear the 1850-1860 era qualities, lyrical, bell-like, precise – and also the modern instrument that our time is used to, which is clarity," he said. Hungarian space-age piano scales new heights, creator says 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

She sang songs of Mahler and Brahms with glowing warmth and grave beauty, and had an elusive, expressionist Berg song sounding like the most sublimely lyrical music imaginable. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Previous productions of “Fella,” which is often staged at opera houses, have provoked mild complaints of a disconnect between its exquisite lyrical passages and more conventional showstoppers. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z

That most lyrical pioneer pilot and writer on aviation Antoine de Saint-Exupéry saw that the aeroplane itself would quickly become "a tool, like a plough". Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z

It’s a simple song, mostly reliant on Sheeran’s vocal skills and charisma to get over, but it works: when isolated and not made to press against ostensibly mature lyrical material, he displays a deft touch. REVIEW: Ed Sheeran Multiplies His Appeal on x 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The excellent Franz Hawlata’s booming bass resoundingly establishes the cantankerous side, while later, spruced up in white tie, he expresses concern for his bride with lyrical poise. Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z

A bassist with as much lyrical sensitivity as he has resounding power, Raghavan is best known for his work in the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s esteemed quintet. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

RELATED: James Joyce's lyrical, sensual literary legacy: Why so many novels steal from "Ulysses" Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The symphony was left to unfold, one episode after another, with little forward impulse, few rhythmic charges or lyrical flights. Music Review: Japan Festival Continues, Despite Sadness and Anxiety 2011-03-22T21:21:28Z

He also dances with surprisingly impressive aplomb, and Baryshnikov reveals a surprisingly lyrical baritone singing voice. Baryshnikov sings, Dafoe dances in avant-garde 'Old Woman' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

This doesn't sound like a lot of fun to watch, but Weir — in his first movie since 2003's "Master and Commander" — makes it mesmerizing and occasionally lyrical. 'The Way Back': Prisoners take it step by step in Peter Weir's great escape drama 2011-01-20T22:53:21Z

Her sane, smart, crafty and lyrical voice is more necessary now than ever. Perspective | Margaret Atwood: We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lamar is the photo negative of Dr. Dre — he’s a dense lyrical technician who can be all trees, no forest. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

These works, Correa tells me, "had a huge effect… they were very powerful and very lyrical… they showed that you could be on the cutting edge of architecture right where you lived". Charles Correa: India's greatest architect 2013-05-11T23:04:04Z

Pusha has been turning lyrical Pyrex stirs into Cavalli furs for years, and he knows how to perform live, which isn’t always a given in a hip-hop scene overrun with pink-haired teens. Review | Pusha T Celebrates His ‘Daytona’ at the Enormous Echostage 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

And the book does contain moments of lyrical expansiveness. The Claustrophobic Paranoia of Walt Whitman’s Lost Novel 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The two musicians complemented each other well, with Fan’s butterscotch tone and Huang’s lyrical lines flowing with ease. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

While others lauded the lunar landing as a "giant leap for mankind," Scott-Heron lamented the Moon trip in his lyrical litany. Why Gil Scott-Heron’s "Whitey on the Moon" still feels relevant today 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

So, along with all the bad-memory lyrical inspiration that comes with not dying, a certain amount of perspective is a given. Armand Hammer adds the Alchemist to make for an even more intriguing brand of underground rap 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Dvorak’s sunny Seventh Symphony proved perhaps the best fit for Stutzmann’s warmth and lyrical bent; the first movement, in particular, sailed along on sunshine alone. Review | New baton, familiar style: Performer-conductor Stutzmann at the NSO 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Personals, with their economical writing, are by their nature poetic, and rise to the operatic in the rhythmic and lyrical speech of the junior interrogators. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Daley-Ward, of Jamaican and Nigerian ancestry, is the author of one book of poetry, “bone,” and one “lyrical memoir,” “The Terrible,” which is billed as “part prose, part verse.” Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

“This is a book for those who mourn the changing climate and coast as well as, perhaps, America’s diminishing literary culture; sadness benefits from lyrical prose,” David Biello writes in his review. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The song’s refrain creates a lyrical bridge: “the way over, the way out.” Rap’s Radical First Act 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The characters drink, bicker, make passes at each other, wax lyrical, complain about their sandals, and generally remind us that men were never carved from marble and philosophy can be good fun. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

Part of the fun is playing in a free and lyrical way. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z

The writing tends to the lyrical rather than the analytical, and her descriptions of buildings are stronger on phenomenology than the details of construction and engineering. Louis Kahn: Extraordinary architect, complex family man 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

In this lilting, lyrical work, the director Andrew Dosunmu and the writer Lena Waithe mine, mourn and tease the Whitney Houston story. ‘Beauty’ Review: Requiem for a Pop Star 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Daly designed the rooms specifically to evoke a sensation of being within a musical—an appropriately lyrical gesture for a place that celebrates harmony, rhapsody, and the spark of creation. UCLA’s Music Center debuts two pavilions by Kevin Daly Architects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

I think about it a lot — I’ve got a lot of lyrical ideas — but I keep putting it off. Phil Collins Is Very Much Alive 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

In lyrical moments, like the clarinet line that opens the second-movement Adagio, it seemed as if the players were overcompensating for being out of their usual modern and contemporary repertory, phrasing with exaggerated intensity. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-13T22:44:48Z

She shaped some slower, more lyrical moments with sensitivity; in others she had difficulty navigating between extremes of volume, making the voice seem either to vanish or to blare out suddenly. Music Review: Donizetti?s ?Fille du R?giment? at the Met - Review 2011-12-13T23:22:49Z

Though it drew heavily on Hans Christian Andersen, the novel's timeless setting and lyrical descriptions made it a delight. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw ? review 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z

We posted it to Twitter, and were inundated with tweets from @guardianmusic followers, sharing their lyrical misunderstandings. Open thread: misheard lyrics 2012-07-17T11:49:24Z

Sudeikin gives a lyrical summation in the text of a speech to his friends, "Art: our record that we have lived, the breath that gives us life." Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z

And, perhaps not surprising at a conference populated primarily by superfans, there were the knowing nods and snickers at each lyrical pun — there were many — or mention of the most obscure factoids about his songs. Billy Joel-Loving Academics Get in a Piano Man State of Mind 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

He also has written 11 novels and has been praised for his lyrical style and his insights into a wide a range of people and emotions. Richard Bausch wins $30,000 story prize 2013-04-25T13:35:08Z

Nicholas Phan, a tenor with a sweet, lyrical tone, sang Obadiah’s music with a suppleness that contrasted strikingly with the drive of Mr. Outlaw’s reading. Music Review: A Score To Praise A Prophet 2011-04-28T20:51:24Z

And there's also a lyrical series of shots taken at the Appleby Horse Fair this time last year. A sharp eye in the north east of England 2012-06-04T14:07:00Z

All four musicians dug in energetically, rendering the interpretation notable for both its gritty verve and lyrical finesse. Music in Review 2011-04-06T23:27:11Z

They'll be repeating in their minds the pungent, lyrical lines of monologues from plays by the late Seattle dramatist August Wilson. Teen actors in spotlight in August Wilson Monologue Competition 2011-03-04T21:23:15Z

“It is not easy to change anything, but now I think it is a matter of lyrical and musical changes — and perhaps cutting a scene or two from the second act.” ?Spider-Man? E-Mails Revealed in Taymor Lawsuit 2012-03-04T23:24:48Z

The very youthful profundity of such thoughts saturates this lyrical production, directed as a flickering string of moments by Awoye Timpo. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Now having seen “Spring Storm,” I can’t imagine anyone interested in the singular voice of the American theater’s most enduringly lyrical dramatist missing the opportunity. Review: The Young and Ever Restless Tennessee Williams 2010-04-20T12:41:00Z

It was built upwards, from a rock-solid foundation of lower strings, through a carefully blended middle-register sound, up to singing strings and lyrical winds on top. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z

In one indelible review, the conservative critic Hilton Kramer lamented the “spectacle of mandarin sensibilities masquerading as unlettered but lyrical stumblebums.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Almost all were written by the late Anthony Minghella, who famously directed "The English Patient," and his simple but lyrical style is all over the show. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'The Muppets' 2011-11-22T18:05:22Z

As the cameras were moved into place, Gilligan, who is 44 and speaks in a lyrical Southern drawl, reminisced fondly about some of the torments he has inflicted on Jesse Pinkman. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z

There are also roving, lyrical long shots of Queens streets that, in their grit and dazzle, recall the boyhood Bronx of Don DeLillo’s “Underworld.” ‘The Volunteer’ Braids the Lives of Fathers and Sons 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

"Lilting," starring Cheng Pei-pei and Ben Whishaw, is a lyrical little chamber piece on language, playing with what words mean, what the body says, what is understood and what is not. 'Lilting' a lyrical, emotional play on language 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The aria-like allegretto offered an opportunity for Fejervari to show off his technique in layers with bass staccato notes popping against creamy treble thirds and lyrical lines. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

We preserve this custom of warning the opponent in our less lyrical way by stating the score just before we toss up the ball. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The soloist was the lyrical, incisive Alisa Weilerstein, who released a flawless recording of the concerto with the Czechs several years ago. Review: The Czech Philharmonic Brings Tear-Streaked Consolation 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

This exhibit of colorful reimagining is where her lesson of lyrical integrity begins. Review | Angie Thomas follows up ‘The Hate U Give’ with the story of an aspiring hip-hop star 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The three characters are represented by different styles: a conversational telephone manner; a detached, formal delivery; and a more lyrical singing style. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The lyrical formula is cheerful, the sound is vaguely inspirational. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

During "Man of the Year," much of the fest chanted his lyrical observation: "I see hands in the crowds / See whites, blacks blazing a pound, jumping around." Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The language is impressive throughout and the writing is crisp and beautiful – even at its most lyrical it never gets in the way of the story. Sun Catcher by Sheila Rance – review 2013-05-04T09:00:01Z

The Mulleavy sisters’ homage to the Plains was whimsical, sometimes lyrical — and certainly emblematic of a season awash in Americana, their most memorable dresses bordered, fittingly enough, in sheaves of wheat. New York Fashion Week: The Looks That Lingered 2011-02-19T00:28:42Z

The water is a transformative, poetic medium — through Lovelace’s attentive gaze — the otherwise prosaic routines of his fellow Trinidadians become lyrical. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

“What leaped out at me right away was that he was a phenomenally visual writer with a lyrical, magical voice,” said Ms. Jones, who teaches writing at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The idea, they say, is to move beyond the bubblegum EDM of their early music into something weightier and more adventurous, to keep the dance vibe but with a deeper lyrical perspective. Krewella puts twist on dance music 2013-06-13T16:29:00Z

He coaxed the sound from the harp – a big, rich, lyrical sound that blended beautifully with other instruments. Druzinsky: CSO harpist known as a dedicated musician 2011-01-10T19:12:00Z

The first act was fitful: either manically fast or, in lyrical passages, lethargically slow and drained of drama. Music Review: ?Tosca? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-12T23:36:27Z

And occasionally an amplified voice spouts ominous and lyrical statements about holes without end and dark alternative universes. Review: In ‘Bianco,’ Muscle-Bending, Air-Swimming and Fire-Eating 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bernstein’s score for “To Kill a Mockingbird” exemplifies this principle with lyrical elegance, both in his simple, childlike theme for the film’s protagonist, Scout, and the more mysterious, melancholy orchestral theme for Boo Radley. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Thornton directs with lyrical respect for the source material, if not a whole lot of grit or imagination. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Bagatelle No. 5, which closes the group, here seems like a graciously lyrical attempt to reconcile the disparate sounds we’ve just heard. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

And the voice is good — husky, imperious but lyrical, with the precise, signature caesuras. Theater Review: Bette Davis Stays and Stays in ‘Me and Jezebel’ 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z

And the concluding Chopin, by turns lyrical and jaunty, showed the two musicians at their partnering best. Cellist Carter Brey’s restraint speaks volumes 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts. Sunday Reading: Culinary Journeys 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

The sentimental overtones could be quieted a bit, but the lyrical landscapes and the emotional weather are in place. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

For all the built-up dread in “The Island Funeral,” the movie ends on a note that’s both lyrical and terribly mournful. Review: ‘The Island Funeral’ Goes on a Restless Road Trip 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's not long before the men are on the hunt again, this time in search of the source of a lyrical song wafting through sand-encrusted Timbuktu. 'Timbuktu' a compelling exploration of extremism's absurdities 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zukerman played the sunny melodies with a burnished tone, his collaboration with Mr. Bronfman particularly impressive in the Adagio, one of Beethoven’s most beautifully lyrical slow movements. Music Review: Some Artist Favorites for Violin and Piano 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

This makes Meghan O’Rourke’s pellucid “The Invisible Kingdom” — a profound, sometimes lyrical, deeply moving portrayal of a vague constellation of illnesses — all the more remarkable. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Pusha T, 41, has been making bold statements like those since he emerged on the music scene as one-half of the duo Clipse two decades ago, earning praise for his raw lyrical content and delivery. Pusha T on winning in 2018, Grammy nom, Drake and Kanye West 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

When Mattei agreed to debut the role at the Met, he was known mostly as a Mozart singer, and the only Wagner he had sung was the lyrical Wolfram in "Tannhaeuser." Mattei takes `step up' to role in `Parsifal' 2013-02-26T20:25:11Z

Her pianism is distinguished by acute musical sensitivity, lyrical grace and pearly sound. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z

These lyrical chants, requiring an enormous range, are thought to be more than 2,000 years old. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Two lyrical books, each rooted in history, weave together memoir and environmental consciousness hewing to both your route and your interests. Road Trip Reads 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Them lyrical narrative in which she swats aside criticism like King Kong batting airplanes. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ma’s warm, dusky playing of this lyrical stretch was wondrously cushioned by the orchestra’s harmonically ambiguous atmospherics. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Trilogy does remove some of the Weeknd's mystique – lyrical formulae become apparent, and examples of engaging melody recede as the collection advances. The Weeknd: Trilogy – review 2012-11-15T21:00:01Z

That evocative passage shows Ms. Masciotti’s particular talent for making lyrical use of the limited vocabulary of someone struggling with English. | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up 2010-09-03T22:35:00Z

Mr. Berger’s music elsewhere veers between similarly abrasive effects and lyrical outbursts. Review: Kronos Quartet Revisits Vietnam Horror in ‘My Lai’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dowell remains my ultimate lyrical classicist, the man who extended our idea of masculinity in ballet into unsurpassed poetry. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z

There was equally deluxe casting for the Queen of the Dryads, with Ekaterina Kondaurova investing the role with a dreamy, lyrical amplitude. Mariinksy Ballet ? review 2011-08-04T20:30:04Z

“Union,” the new record from veteran alt country/Americana band Son Volt is striking for both its lyrical focus and musical approach. Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Paired with his warm baritone voice, his lyrical playing was featured on classic songs including "Fire and Rain" and "Something in the Way She Moves." Kennedy Center Honorees Announced 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The young Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell brings a sweetly lyrical, if sometimes strained, voice and an innocently handsome look to Antinous. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Kartel, a provocateur whose X-rated content has seen him banned in the past from several Caribbean nations, appears to have found a new, more airwave-friendly lyrical direction in the wake of the single. Vybz Kartel puts Clarks footprint on Jamaica 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z

Too much of Saturday’s performance sounded like mid-’70s album filler, a kind of ploddy ramble that sapped whatever lyrical insights floated on top. With humor, but not much melody, Father John Misty comes to 9:30 Club 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Plodding chronological development, wanly lyrical arias, foursquare choruses and drinking songs are deployed as if by rote. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z

So I understand an author’s impulse to avoid littering pages of otherwise lyrical prose with the bleep-boop-beep of tech speak. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z

Packed with exquisite imagery, where night skies weep shooting stars and flamingo flocks scatter "like wisps of sunset", The Child's Elephant is a hard-hitting but lyrical tale of survival against the odds. The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston – review 2013-07-06T09:30:00Z

He is, like many of his countrymen, a lyrical realist with a seam of pride. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s yet another demonstration of Porter’s lyrical genius, and it’s paired here with Ellis’s and Carlyle’s understanding of how to infuse the material with old-school Broadway savvy. Review | On Broadway, I just saw my first ‘Kiss Me, Kate.’ It was worth the wait. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The London-based singer describes himself as a lirico-spinto tenor, versatile enough to sing within limits both the lyrical and dramatic roles of the operatic repertoire. India's lone male tenor aims to sing opera in local key 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Strauss responded to the times and his critics by retreating further into his work, refining his own distinctive blend of Neo-Classical precision and lyrical expansion. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

But his braggadocio is two parts lyrical one-upmanship, one part side-eye commentary on braggadocio. Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z

It's a juggernaut of a symphony, but under Bychkov it sounded expansively, generously lyrical, as well as driven. BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:01Z

Mr. Tisci’s lyrical vision of haute couture, although with no visible reference to the origins of the Givenchy house, was a first for him, with none of the black of his more familiar gothic spirit. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z

He won the prize for “Shuggie Bain,” a gritty and lyrical novel about a boy coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. S Africa’s Galgut, US author Powers lead Booker Prize race 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Wearing electric blue eyeglasses and a short, flouncy skirt, she reads a lyrical essay about teaching Italians to do the electric slide and then sings, a cappella, a song she wrote about Paris. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Yet there were some draggy passages and lyrical lines that lost shape and continuity. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Fred Sherry was the committed soloist in the piece, a blend of lyrical fragments and pizzicatos that emerge from a rhythmically complex framework. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

Swenson has a predilection for figurative language that occasionally hits the lyrical mark but more often distracts. Exonerated for a Murder They Didn’t Commit 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The finale, marked “Presto,” found them keeping the lyrical elements as spare as possible while etching the composer’s intricate rhythms on their instruments as finely as patterns onto crystal. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z

The enthusiastic audience alternated between crowding the laser-lit dance floor during the faster, percussive songs and eating grilled beef skewers and drinking beer at their tables during the slower, lyrical songs. Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z

Withers achieved staggering emotional breadth with such simple techniques, jotting lyrical thought-bubbles down on scraps of paper, then meditating on them until their durability felt worthy of a song. Perspective | Bill Withers, on repeat 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her assured, lovingly lyrical, occasionally frisky playing only confirmed what is becoming common knowledge in the musical world: that she is on the cusp of a major career. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

"Normally we know she has a lot of power but today this was very lyrical." Oil-themed Wagner 'Ring' catching fire for his 200th 2013-07-27T22:17:20Z

Each act had its own arc and mood, yet he located the ominous door-knock rhythm from the introduction constantly, even in the most seemingly lyrical passages. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z

He has a rich and vibrant tone — almost polyphonic, really — and he captures that sweet spot between lyrical bite and melodic celebration that we all associate with music. Beatles tribute asks: When I get older, will you still love me? 2011-02-09T22:56:37Z

Part of what makes “Work”—a light dancehall single featuring Drake—so appealing is lyrical obscurity, the words delivered in such a slack patois that you can hear whatever it is you wish to hear. Rihanna’s Anti-Album 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

As in her other books, Davies tells her main story in a lyrical way, while presenting snippets of purely factual information along the sides of the two-page spreads. 'Traction Man' and other beachy keen new books for kids 2012-07-20T01:19:36Z

The lyrical stretches rippled and floated as if on a cloud; the stretch runs of the first and third movements were wild rides to the finish line. Pianist Behzod Abduraimov again proves to be a super sub 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Its main ingredients are raw and rolling dance grooves and long dazzling displays of guitar work rather than lyrical subtlety or the urge to sharpen the minds of audiences back home. Bombino: Niger's Tuareg guitar hero 2013-04-07T16:00:01Z

Roberts’s scabrous then lyrical cello can be heard on “Hop On Hop Off,” while Swift’s improvisatory contributions help start the track “Left.” For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Harris certainly isn’t the only playwright who writes lyrical dialogue with its own internal meter, but she is one of the best navigators of shifts in language and registers, even within a single scene. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The text is written in pugnacious, witty, and whimsical rhyming verse, which the cast performs with a lyrical vigor that doesn’t jingle or trot but flows with the mighty current of heightened, emblematic speech. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

His descriptions of the efficiency of hopping, breeding cycle and ability to withstand drought take on lyrical intensity. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z

Written at the disgustingly young age of 29, it's funny, lyrical, clever and surprising, features the massive and memorable Dog Woman, and not incidentally, is very short. Famous for the wrong book 2011-07-19T10:16:27Z

And Rossini’s “Semiramide” Overture on Thursday lacked the steadily accumulating propulsion, even through lyrical passages, that is the piece’s reason for being; the soufflé never really rose. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

In a nod to the lyrical turbulence, his voice dips and soars with delicacy and grace, which adds gravitas and emphasis to his complicated emotions. The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas," Wham!'s potent yuletide breakup song 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Her technique was equal to every hurdle the composers threw at her, but her lyrical playing lacks the sort of surging beauty that a work like the Szymanowski requires, and she sometimes landed slightly flat. Violinist Kurkowicz provides break from standard fare

Despite her expressionist tendencies, she never lets go of her devotion to cool, lyrical clarity. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Though not huge, her voice is pliant and lyrical, with ample range to depict the heroine's despair. Gluck opera shines despite tenor's voice loss 2012-11-23T18:31:06Z

The city of New Orleans is Boguille’s co-star, and Shaik’s rendition of her hometown is lyrical and mysterious and always captivating. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

The lyrical gist of the song — in brutal shorthand, crushing isolation softened by a bleak epiphany — came across more clearly than usual, even as the crowd giddily sang along. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z

Zukerman adopted spacious tempos, even in the concluding Rondo, favoring lyrical insight over dramatic urgency. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

This is a social documentary with a heart and soul, a biography of visual poetry, redolent with lyrical ambivalence. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The three movements include the assertive “Proclamation”; the introverted and lyrical “Spontaneous Songs”; and “Dance,” whose whirlwind fades into a more pensive mood. ?Peter Lieberson: 'Red Garuda,' Rilke Songs, Bagatelles, Piano Quintet? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

Though here it lacks the lyrical dexterity and layered meanings of either. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Lilting bright guitar with a Brazilian slant and Michael Owens' threadbare falsetto lead the way on a song about a mother's faraway son, while the mournful brass underscores the lyrical sentiment. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z

Even better is Higgs Boson Blues, a mordantly witty picaresque fable that runs the lyrical gamut from Lucifer to Robert Johnson and Hannah Montana. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z

With an odd sense of common words and uncommon metrics, she wove strange, lyrical conundrums of emotion and logic. Review | A writer ponders Emily Dickinson’s most pivotal moments 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

There’s a beauty in plainness here, one that suits the lyrical thrust of a tune like “Memories of Mother and Dad” or “Tiny Broken Heart.” New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z

The subject matter also sailed over the heads of the BBC censors, who only balked at the lyrical mention of Coca-Cola, which violated its rule about commercial insertions. Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Levit sensitively carried the piece’s calm ending, without a pause, into the lyrical opening of Schumann’s “Ghost” Variations. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Everything else – the emotional charge, the lyrical delight, the intellectual pleasure – is secondary. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

His great strengths as a Chopin pianist are shown best in pieces of a lyrical and poetic nature. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

She nonetheless made a powerful impression, displaying both an impressive, sparkling technique and a restrained, silky touch in the more lyrical passages. A knockout Night One of Rachmaninov fest 2013-01-04T16:38:19Z

Aeschylus introduced the second actor to Greek plays, adding dialogue, conflict, action—in other words, drama—to what had been a primarily lyrical art form. Theater review: 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' at the Wallis Annenberg Center 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

I live in a small town in Georgia where everyone is either Baptist or Methodist, and the first time I hear the haunting yet lyrical — and completely unforgettable — muezzin’s call to prayer is in Bo-Kaap. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Blending historical fiction, magical realism and a lyrical sense of place, her recent work confounds neat distinctions of genre and has established her as a leading voice in global anglophone literature. Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The style of his music, performed by a wonderful onstage band, might be described as sentimental modernism, both lyrical and tense, delicate and harsh. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z

But the strains the score forces toward the edges of his range feel more intentional now, even beautiful; his tone is sometimes plangently lyrical, sometimes sarcastically sharp. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

So he folded lyrical nuances and bursts of volatility into the recitative portions of “Orfeo.” What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Lady Like” is filled with lyrical gems that reflect the budding star’s maturity and knack for one-liners. As a songwriter, singer Ingrid Andress discovers her voice 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The band’s eponymous debut full-length is smart, sharp guitar pop, with songs shaped by lyrical playfulness, chiming, melodic leads, and Rankin’s bell-clear, yearning voice. REVIEW: Alvvays Make Sunny Guitar-Pop Gold on Self-Titled Debut 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Each note is tongued, but it’s a lyrical line. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Sweetly lyrical passages offered occasional reminders that this is meant to be a partly classical piece, but they were brief. Music Review: A Little Bit Tchaikovsky, A Little Bit Rock ?n? Roll 2010-10-11T21:09:00Z

But the music is so irresistible, none of this really matters, and any lyrical inconsistencies, when you think about it, can only add to his appeal - how boring is a coherent worldview? New band of the day (Leon T. Pearl 1,555) 2013-07-17T14:05:00Z

As a choreographer, however, she used her own more lyrical version of the Graham dance idiom. Kazuko Hirabayashi, Choreographer and Dancers’ Mentor, Dies at 82 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

We often hear from him in a cascade of intermittent, intense, almost lyrical confessions, some transcribed from his testimonies, some invented: When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

By the time a long, deeply lyrical line unfolds about halfway through, the music is in a different world, even as you’re not quite sure how it left the old one. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Placing more for his lyrical output than his books, Dylan is currently on the Ladbroke's list at 25/1. Who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Wu-Tang Clan's track Never Feel This Pain, released last June, offers a lyrical glimpse of this ambivalence. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z

The smooth, almost lyrical movement of the camera conveys lightness and gravity, much in the way that some of Dickinson’s poems do. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

But they are way too few, and by the end of the night their hoary-handed riffs and clunking lyrical vapidity merely grate. Cast ? review 2010-12-06T22:45:00Z

Her richly constructed and often lyrical works explore contrasts of sound, from solitary whispers to rambunctious frenzy. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

On drawing lyrical inspiration from Los Angeles: “Los Angeles obviously is a hotbed of character study,” Gibbard says of the new songs, many of which appear to address his divorce from actress Zooey Deschanel. Death Cab for Cutie: There's Never Been 'A More Exciting Time to Be a Music Fan' 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The British writer Jessie Greengrass’s first novel, “Sight,” can be fit into that group but offers its own distinct philosophical and lyrical pleasures. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

More an attack on French hypocrisy than an exercise in anti-Semitism, the movie is fluid, lyrical and inventive — as remarkable a sound debut as its source was for a first novel. Julien Duvivier, a Gallic Auteur at Home, and Jacques Feyder, One Abroad 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

In “Against the Current,” its title taken from the lyrical conclusion of “The Great Gatsby,” she described him as gentle, thoughtful and fatherly. Frances Kroll Ring, Secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dies at 99 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Musically, Zeidel's forte is swaddling barbed, acidic lyrical motifs in sumptuously mellow chords, an iron fist in a velvet glove. Keren Ann ? review 2011-04-10T21:15:00Z

The final piece, however, screamed “home turf” from the crisp opening chord: Mendelssohn’s “Italian” symphony, his fourth, with its sunny lyrical opening theme familiar as a wall mural in a restaurant. Review | A return to end the season: Eschenbach leads NSO 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s the steady, lyrical motion of a silvery wing over a new place — an entirely unique geography and history that appear simply and perfectly beneath you. Personal Journeys: Viewing the World From an Airline Window Seat 2010-03-24T21:25:00Z

So he turned to the eating and drinking” chapter, crafting a lyrical segment illustrating sentences from the book while still taking a few visual liberties. Bill Plympton Lends His Animation Skills to 'Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Schiff kept the final passages of the first movement subdued, and the last movement's theme was more lyrical than is often the case. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

Somewhere in Hollywood, bewildering, unpredictable, lyrical, probably the most unsettling song about Lassie you'll ever hear. Old music: 10cc – Somewhere in Hollywood 2012-07-04T12:31:00Z

But in collaboration with his wife, he balances the instrumental fireworks with a quiet introspection and a greater emphasis on lyrical content. Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey Compel at Café Carlyle 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Moonlight eschews this reductivism entirely, brilliantly portraying in a lyrical story how love and connection attempt to take hold. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

He possessed, the critic wrote, “a warm, direct and lyrical voice projected with complete honesty and lack of pretension.” Jerry Vale, crooner of the 1950s and '60s, dies at 83

There are eight takes from the New York sessions, and the slightest lyrical change, shift in tempo, or variation in delivery causes the song to reveal itself in unexpected ways. Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Like most conversations with Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways” covers complex territory: trances and hymns, defiant blues, love longings, comic juxtapositions, prankster wordplay, patriotic ardor, maverick steadfastness, lyrical Cubism, twilight-age reflections and spiritual contentment. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

It's clear from the Sutherland comments that for some, the word "poetic" means something like "lyrical" or "inspiring" or "thoughtful". On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z

In true 19th-century fashion, “Danton’s Death” is a clash between “great men,” heroes and antiheroes, who frequently launch into lyrical monologues about blood and death. Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

They show songs in steady mutation, with Mr. West trying out different lyrical approaches to the same portion of music. Kanye West Is Fixing His Album in Public. You’ll Want to Read the Edits. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

“From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The chorus, especially in the Wolf's Glen, enthralls, as does the orchestra, rising to every challenge, urgent or lyrical, heroic or poetic. Weber: Der Freischütz – review 2013-05-11T23:05:09Z

He addresses the year’s controversies — in particular, questions over artist Jimmie Durham’s roots — in ways that are both lyrical and profound. Essential Arts & Culture: Art and the West, L.A.'s queer Chicano networks, Harry Potter architecture 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

And if there are any laws being followed on “Blonde” and “Endless,” they’re the lyrical laws of rap music — the songs themselves aren’t about particular things, because they’re actually about everything. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

When it visits Levin, the film exchanges the trappings of theatricality for a lyrical naturalism, inhaling the fresh air of open fields and the homely aromas of a drafty wooden manor house. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

In places, like “Carry Me Away,” the triumph of the arrangement is potent enough to cloak the brittle lyrical bones it sits upon. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Berg folds remnants of tonality, plush colorings, sweeping lyrical lines and sheer orchestral din into his atonal language. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Through omission, the Tedeschi Trucks band reveals his greatest virtue: that of a lyrical instrumentalist. The Tedeschi-Trucks dream, still unfulfilled | Concert preview 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The more personal lyrical tone of the record fits that theme; on the opening track, “Aura”, Gaga asks a prospective lover, “Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” Lady Gaga’s New ARTPOP Doesn’t Always Live Up to Title 2013-11-11T17:12:01Z

The lyrical First Violin Concerto dates from 1916-17, though at its Paris premiere in 1923 it was considered insufficiently avant-garde, while Soviet critics also subsequently deemed it insufficiently revolutionary. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z

You could wax lyrical on the time you and a fellow student drunkenly set fire to the leading collection of cacti in Germany. Five tips for Nick Clegg's radio career 2013-01-08T17:41:30Z

Her style is so lyrical, expressive and visceral: I can feel the wind, the smells, the sun, the house of her family. Booksmart director Olivia Wilde: ‘Being young is the most painful, most hilarious experience’ 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

NB: All of the lyrical content on this album comes from me. | Wild Belle's 'Backslider' 2012-10-17T15:21:44Z

A lyrical and rebellious love story about two enslaved boys in antebellum Mississippi, whose relationship is accepted and even cherished until a Christian evangelist, also enslaved, turns the plantation against them. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Adagio movement was warmly lyrical; in the Finale, Gluzman seemed to spear the notes with incisive accuracy, generating so much excitement that the audience response demanded an encore. Vadim Gluzman delivers power and passion with SSO | Classical review 2013-03-15T16:59:25Z

Through entertaining and informative vignettes related to each recipe, Southworth and Matza recount both tales historical and personal, as they weave a lyrical trail through cityscapes and countryside alike. Learn how to make delicious pot-stickers two ways — with meat or without 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Ganz’s natural tendency to savor tender, lyrical passages sapped the first movement of some of its structural cohesion and momentum. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

There is also fascination in how Gallagher's songs defy the laws of physics to become more than the sum of their meagre lyrical parts. Suede/Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Cleanly executed ornamental figures emerge naturally from longer lyrical lines. Review: The English Concert Performs Handel’s ‘Orlando’ at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

The lyrical and musical details add up to a pop saga in the key of anguish. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z

It was a subtly different direction for a band so heavily influenced by the post-punk tradition, which incorporates so much lyrical emphasis. Interpol classes up the Paramount, expanding on their instantly recognizable sound 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the Piano Concerto sounds startlingly robust, even as its lyrical passages assume aching poignancy. CD review: An enlightened new recording of de Lalande 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then comes a more traditionally constructed passage, with a lyrical right-hand line above left-hand accompaniment. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

With his usual unrestricted honesty, the author even includes some of the poems he shared with Tracey, containing lyrical gems such as “made my blues MO’ BETTER” and an inevitable reference to Cleopatra. Review | In ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,’ Damon Young turns an unflinching eye on himself and society 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

They were at once aggressive and lyrical, impinging on the viewer’s space and providing moments of gorgeous, flowing color while refusing a single, secure, centered point of view. Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sikora adds an exotic touch of her own: a lyrical, ear-catching solo line for a Baroque throwback, the viola da gamba. Music Review: Embracing the Modern With Tone Clusters, Not Dissonance 2011-01-23T22:49:50Z

A similar lyrical device is employed by the ex-Motors man, along with a winning combination of harmonies, power chords and a cascading Last Train to Clarkesville-style riff. Readers recommend: songs about criminals ? results 2011-03-31T12:49:24Z

But I was struck by the lyrical and musical beauty of song after song. Alistair McGowan: Mad about the Master 2010-12-06T22:01:00Z

It’s a beautiful, lyrical, ghostly vision — appropriate to a play in which an idealized past haunts an unforgiving present. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z

On the phone from his hometown, he says the album’s central focus is on lyrical domination. Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ruzicka’s musical language is heterogeneous and fluid — by turns lyrical, dissonant, shrill and sparse. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Don’t Forget the Driver” gets to you, in large part, through its bleakly lyrical depiction of the fading, but in its way still lovely, seaside milieu of Bognor Regis. Review: ‘Don’t Forget the Driver’ Is a Comedy for Our Moment 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Wood’s lush prose modulates gently between the three women’s voices, incorporating Pepper’s childish colloquialisms, Ada’s bluff irritation and Pearl’s confused meanderings without ever loosing its lyrical power. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Less, however, has been said of how Mr. Osborne, whose syncopated, lyrical playing was inspired by the jazz-derived solos of old-time fiddlers, broke new ground as a mandolinist. Bobby Osborne, Mandolinist Who Flouted Bluegrass Convention, Dies at 91 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

An athlete all through school and a longtime ballet student, Ms. Ejogo loves any exercise “where it starts feeling lyrical and more like a dance,” she said. Carmen Ejogo of ‘True Detective’ Dangles in a Circus 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The cull forced many musicians into less lyrical trades, where they remained in obscurity for decades. Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts 2011-08-05T13:15:43Z

It is a challenge for any singer to navigate Berg’s modernist score, which requires both lyrical beauty and haunted Sprechstimme, or sung speech. Method to the Madness: Peter Mattei on Becoming Wozzeck 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The piece is, not surprisingly, suffused with Ravel’s spirit, but the lyrical themes are Mr. Dubugnon’s own and are driven by a playful, modern sensibility. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z

Nineteenth-century explorer Henry Russell was downright lyrical on the subject: “It is to the Pyrenees that the smiles of the artist and the heart of the poet will always turn.” Empty-nesters take up where they left off on Spain’s most storied mountain trail 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

In a fine program of Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel and Waxman — difficult music, in a range of styles and impeccably rendered — Waarts showed an uncommon, preternatural sense of tonal color and lyrical beauty on the instrument. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Over time he honed a signature sound: grainy and penetrating, but more lyrical than strident. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z

Mr. Dorsky calls these nonnarrative films — which are filled with images of brilliantly hued flowers shot with a hovering camera — “devotional songs,” and there is something truly lyrical about their ephemeral beauty. Critic?s Notebook: Spotlight Glows Brightly in Toronto 2010-09-17T22:57:00Z

"False Hope" creaks with Tangerine Dream-style washes cut through with strong drumming and a panicked lyrical insomnia. Laura Marling LP's 'Short Movie' is approachable 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

But the families must find beauty on their own, and the Appalachians supply that with flowers, named in number in lyrical, folk-inspired section for chorus. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

This lyrical, remarkable novel, set during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, somehow manages to solve the riddle of how to sing war now. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Behind her, the synths remain sensuous enough to conflate sociopolitical conscience with ecstatic release, despite a handful of awkward lyrical twists. Katy Perry Dances Till the World Ends and M.I.A. Starts a New Wave 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

As Gus, the theater cat, Christopher Gurr delivers a poignant reminiscence of a career on the stage in one of the show’s most softly lyrical, moving songs. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

The novel’s power derives from its seamless interweaving of the lyrical and the quotidian. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

And there is her time in Paris, where she is adrift until she is rescued by the unconventional sort-of friendship she forms with M., an older male writer known for his lyrical writing about Istanbul. With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

These scene-setting pieces, along with a carpet suggesting scattered Persian rugs, and a scrim with an image like a sepia photograph, all add up to a lyrical recreation of a lost woman’s world. Special Report: Fashion: Women in the Orient 2011-02-11T12:07:02Z

The topography also embraces elements from 20th-century writers who specialized in lyrical backward glances, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams, who could always see the present turning into the past. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z

So I did something completely different, and it was much too lyrical for some people.” Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

His conducting seemed more for himself than the orchestra, as though a kind of physical therapy for helping him slow down and preparing for a lyrical theme or for working himself into a sweat. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Anthony Gregory delineates Ferrando's insecurity as he skilfully charts his lyrical lines. Così Fan Tutte – review 2013-03-21T17:39:58Z

Lamar has been lauded for his deep lyrical content, politically charged live performances, and his profound mix of hip-hop, spoken word, jazz, soul, funk, poetry and African sounds. Commercial and critical darling Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Still, a feeling of levity permeated the full house, even during the tenderest, most reflective tunes like “The Mother” or “Party of One,” thanks to the folksy charmer’s lyrical wit and between-song anecdotes. Brandi Carlile, in high spirits, delights hometown crowd at Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

It contains climaxes fit to clear the listener's sinuses, but also some lyrical melodic writing that tugs at the heartstrings. Review: Spano and SSO skillfully serve 20th-century classics 2010-04-30T17:05:00Z

On its own, this section would be a small, troubling, strangely lyrical film. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The story also converts its magical realism into lyrical allegory and raises poignant questions about the nature of refugee identity. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Most of his songs were lyrical meditations on longing for personal happiness and paeans to socially minded utopias. Cuba singer Rodriguez wistful and polemical in U.S. show 2010-06-05T08:00:00Z

The textures are lucid, with less layering of busy counterpoint, and Mr. Carter’s lyrical voice emerges more overtly. Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z

Nearby, an automatic Disklavier piano produces an oddly lyrical cacophony: a fragment of music by Cage with its own sweetly disordered logic. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

Although the same study found that funeral directors will often refuse musical requests due to lyrical content, plenty of off-beat and trendy tunes made the list of the top selections for swan songs. Which Pop Song Do You Want Played At Your Funeral? 2012-10-16T16:31:15Z

“Sworn Virgin” alternates between this oppressive atmosphere and more lyrical present-day sequences. Review: ‘Sworn Virgin’ Concerns a Fading Custom in Albania 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“The Terrible” is a devastating and lyrical account that begins with Ms. Daley-Ward’s childhood in Chorley, a small town in northern England where she was shuffled between her single mother and her religious grandparents. Meet Yrsa Daley-Ward, the Bard of Instagram 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But the relevance of “Glory” has less to do with chart performance than with its lyrical references to recent events in Ferguson, Mo. Watch John Legend and Common's Stirring Acceptance Speeches at the Oscars 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

But the source book, drafted in a mind-boggling six weeks, is a wonder: magical, lyrical and taut. Peter Murphy's top 10 literary preachers 2013-01-16T11:12:26Z

While he rendered various lyrical turns and harmonic shifts eloquently, he backed away from stormy, dramatic episodes. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Coupled with a three-time Kind Heaven and expansive Deeds of Kindness the role demands a lyrical voice with a good legato. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z

One might detect in this philosophy something of Rumi’s own approach to poetry: Rumi often amended texts from the Koran so that they would fit the lyrical rhyme and meter of the Persian verse. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Esparza, scaling up into the peak of his register, rocks out blazingly — even if it’s at the expense of lyrical clarity, a problem that afflicts virtually everyone in the 19-person cast. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

"Rap or Go to the League" is brilliantly lyrical and definitely the most slept-on album of the year. Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Reviewing the St. Louis premiere for The Times, Anthony Tommasini wrote, “Restless vocal lines shift from plaintive lyrical phrases, to sputtered outbursts, to a style that seems a jazz equivalent of Italianate arioso.” A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

What he offers is immense sadness and lyrical tribute to the immensity of millions of deaths. Review | After 100 years, a gentle Requiem has its premiere 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

In the second movement of the Third Symphony, a lyrical phrase travels around the orchestra, innocuous enough, but its insistent repetition becomes eerie, especially when the violins pluck over it like spiders. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

The message of the latest Pixar feature — a lyrical, metaphysical tale of a jazz pianist’s adventures in the afterlife — is that it’s good to be alive. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

He wanted it to be memorable, rather than lyrical. The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

And the entire show features a lyrical plethora of the anachronistic and the camp. Drury Lane gets stuck following 'Aida' into slick, shirtless temptation 2011-03-25T20:19:30Z

“The Crossing” achieves symbiosis with its lyrical story of immigration and its open borders musical policy. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

The prose is peppered with sad, lyrical sentences that hint at his childhood loneliness and confusion. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Two standards—“Nature Boy” and “Vilia”—offer lyrical breaks in the action. ‘Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album’ Review: Sitting in the Studio With Coltrane 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Earlier Ms. Luecker proved a straightforward and sensitive pianist who brought lyrical grace and clarity to Mozart’s Sonata in C minor. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z

The filmmaker called Springsteen "this nation's hardest working lyrical poet for our common humanity." Obama hangs with Spielberg, Springsteen at benefit 2014-05-08T13:11:45Z

Liddiard's lyrical artistry pulls our human emotional entanglements apart to reveal the selves within. Readers' reviews: Def Leppard, Stephan Nance and Gareth Liddiard 2012-08-20T12:30:25Z

A tenderly lyrical yet quizzical slow movement leads to a misbehaving scherzo, and then a herculean finale. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The seductive Chinois screen introduces another lyrical note to the offerings. Mary McDonald Debuts Her New Line for Chaddock 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

One Direction's lyrical themes may seem harmless enough. Are One Direction really as wholesome as they appear? 2013-01-21T16:15:12Z

At its exhilarating best, it's a gritty and lyrical portrait of lives that are too messy and tender to be summed up in consumer-centric notions of the Millennial generation. 'Below Dreams' a lyrical look at Millennial generation trio 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The music one moment evoked a lilting, lyrical Fauré and the next a jaunty rag. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z

Like his “Neutral Hero,” “Isolde” is in a more lyrical vein, and the performances tremble on the brink of full, naturalistic emotion. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z

Their ambivalent attraction culminates in a tremulous hotel room tryst that ranks among Williams’ most lyrical achievements. What the heart desires in Tennessee Williams' 'Eccentricities of a Nightingale' in Venice 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Where so much contemporary jazz can be a dreary display of muscle memory, Tigran has found a way to keep improvisation fresh and lyrical. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z

He waxes lyrical about trout fishing and love, and he guts and cooks a fish on stage. Hugh Jackman makes triumphant return to Broadway in 'The River' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

The complex score is lush and rich with colours: lyrical, mad, sometimes jazzy, sometimes evoking Bach in its architecture. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

Yet despite her lyrical facility, finding the right words — or any words, for that matter — appeared to be Barnett's biggest obstacle in an interview that preceded her L.A. show last week. Singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett lets her lyrics do the talking 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

As if fearing that too lyrical an approach to such an orphic figure would result in incoherence, Gooch describes this poet’s life in a decidedly unpoetic way. Rumi: America’s favorite poet, from Persia, with love 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr Gehry’s best projects are almost uniquely, engagingly lyrical: the fluttering surfaces and gorgeously ballooning spaces seem unbound by either gravity or the limits of construction technology. A life in shapes 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

There is sad music, which is to say music that deploys lyrical or musical motifs meant to connote misery. The Sound of Sadness Overwhelms and Inspires Mount Eerie 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

His slow-paced, lyrical nocturnes are ripe with emotive gestures and flights of fancy. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The author, acclaimed for her lyrical novels dealing with the lives of children and adolescents, received the 2010 Cervantes prize from King Juan Carlos at a nationally televised ceremony. Ana Maria Matute receives Spanish literary prize 2011-04-27T11:39:09Z

Thanks to Angel of Death's harrowing and seemingly impartial lyrical stance, Slayer also became metal's most controversial band, dogged by clumsy accusations of political dubiousness. RIP Slayer's Jeff Hanneman 2013-05-03T13:54:00Z

The alluring result is the imaginary life of the artist as a young boy, told through a sequence of lyrical scenes, some more obviously interconnected than others. Portraits of Three Artists as Young Children 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

There are no obvious lyrical or musical themes that unite the tunes on “The River,” the 1980 double album from Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen brings a long and winding ‘River’ to Verizon Center 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

“He is a singer on his instrument. The way he would squawk or screech is like a blues singer. His melodic, lyrical approach feels more oral than scales and arpeggios,” he said. At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

It was in Henry “Big Bank Hank” Jackson’s lyrical wobble, the way he rapped through the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” the singular hit that propelled a movement when it was released in 1979. Big Bank Hank: 'Rapper's Delight' and the Sugarhill Gang's revolution 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

At Marks, we see its softer, more lyrical side. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

An expansively lyrical passage will be followed by ferocious, slashing chords. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

As the disembodied keening of the saw floated over sighing strings, Ewa Harmsen, a deaf member of the Dutch Signing Choir, performed the words with lyrical gestures. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Likewise in Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo,” Bringuier brought fire and a lyrical bent that moved along without bathos. Bringuier does Shakespeare; a young cellist impresses 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Stage is a writer with a gift for the lyrical and the frightening. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Andrew Davis's conducting is passionate, lyrical and admirably free from self-indulgence. Capriccio – review 2013-07-22T17:49:21Z

July is a writer, and the movie’s dialogue is written with an exquisite lyrical whimsy that packs a lot of pain into simple yet unexpected phrases. Movie of the Week: “The Future” 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

“La Mer” found Morlot and the orchestra at their best, producing urgent, lyrical washes of colors that positively shimmered throughout every section. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

The nickname, a reference to widespread street violence, was popularized by Chicago’s Chief Keef and other drill rappers, whose style is lyrical nihilism over menacing beats. Lonnae O’Neal: Some say Spike Lee’s ‘Chiraq’ gives Chicago a bad name 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

In addition to its well-founded lyrical imagery and Islamic overtones, “Arabesque” serves up a musical palette that features the indigenous sounds of the band’s primary musicians, especially guitarist Jonny Buckland, on full display. Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Running at two hours long, this is one of the most effortlessly moving, exhilarating, comic and lyrical dance works of the late 20th century. Dance picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

A sinewy lyrical thread runs through the score, and the level of inventiveness is continually striking.” Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

The result, our reviewer, Janny Scott, noted, is a “searching,” “ruminative,” “sometimes lyrical” memoir of their relationship. New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Thursday night’s audience at the National Symphony Orchestra seemed happy to embrace the article’s premise, getting to their feet at the end of Krzysztof Urbanski’s lyrical, detailed, slightly careful reading. NSO offers energetic Dvorak and a fresh cellist​ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Bastida says the project has given her a renewed respect for the lyrical quality of Morrissey's work, as well as it's complex musical nature. Mexrrissey: The phenomenon that created a Mexican supergroup 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

Strongly supported by Gerard Schwarz's orchestra, he dispatched Bartók's often taxing passage work with aplomb — the intonation immaculate, the tone mellow, the bowing incisive — and responded with much warmth to the work's lyrical moments. Review: At SSO, Gil Shaham ? and Borodin ? make concert special copy 2011-01-08T00:55:41Z

If you like Hayes and his longtime musical partner guitarist Dennis Cahill, who move between wild bursts of frantic fiddling and slower moments of lyrical lightness, there’ll be plenty of that, too. No Paddywhackery at Martin Hayes show, just real Celtic 2013-03-08T18:10:47Z

Stephen Gould actually sang Tristan — no mean feat — with a tone mellower and more lyrical than the pressured bellowing of many other tenors in this impossible role. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

In terms of technical dazzle and lyrical heart, the performance lived up to high expectations. Music Review: 3 Players Make Odd Pairing Singular 2010-03-02T22:24:00Z

On that occasion, Haynes mixed lyrical material like Metheny's classic James with some bebop standbys, and a few coolly swinging new themes. Music picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:33:00Z

Mat Maneri, who disguises a fertile lyrical imagination under a free-jazzy brusqueness, is a key factor in this powerful set's distinctive character. Paul Motian Trio 2000 plus Two: Live at the Village Vanguard Vol 3 ? review 2011-01-13T22:32:01Z

But it is Kweli's expert lyrical flow with its torrent of pop-culture and historical references that shower the listener nearly every time he grabs the mic that underpin this fine record. Review: Talib Kweli delivers on 5th solo album 2013-05-08T17:57:08Z

Instead of aspiring to spout musty lyrical knowledge, Migos are exuding a different kind of musical wisdom. Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The strings offered a taut, dramatic and darkly lyrical performance, yet the winds and brass were disappointingly wan. Soprano Heidi Melton shows promise in Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’ program 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

But he was at least as impressive in the lyrical first two movements. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The first movement is like a lurching dance run through with a nonstop lyrical line. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z

He painted a vivid lyrical picture: flying down the highway in a used car, searching the radio for something true. | Paul Simon: Many Roads to Salvation in Paul Simon?s Latest Show 2011-05-11T07:54:29Z

It is distinctly Yorke-ish: subtle, lyrical, emanating from deep wells of feeling. Perspective | Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke dances like no one’s watching — and it’s a beauty to behold 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Instead of “guesswork,” lyrical rigor floats in the space between Knight and Hayes. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The part, relying more on lyrical expansion than coloratura virtuosity, was a good fit for Fleming. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Wednesday’s concert was most notable for its consistency, the immersion it offered in two composers who, by the 1970s, were both writing with a roughly similar mixture of jittery dissonances and lyrical Romantic nostalgia. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-27T16:31:02Z

“In the part’s eerie alternation between worldliness and childhood she fashioned a mixture that was both credible and lyrical,” Jack Gould wrote of that performance in The New York Times. Zina Bethune, Actress and Dancer, Dies at 66 2012-02-19T06:37:27Z

Jamie Bond and Natasha Oughtred's account of the lyrical second movement, however, is very fine indeed, with her nervy vulnerability perfectly counterpointed by his elegant line and cool, almost abstract, presence. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Of course, Haydn’s sunniness reasserted itself at the end of the quartet with a delightfully simple, lyrical theme for solo violin, beautifully played by Simin Ganatra. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. Books of The Times: ‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo 2013-05-15T21:11:04Z

In Zoey Rita Chin’s harrowing and lyrical memoir, “Let the Tornado Come,” a skittish chestnut named Claret grounds the author after she begins to experience the debilitating aftershocks of her abusive childhood. Horse and Writer: What to Read to a Recuperating Pet 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The genius of the song, aside from its towering musical architecture, is that basic lyrical sentiment, a kind of pure pop poetry that lends intense drama to even the most mundane crisis. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Belém's installations depend on the precise placement of elements within sites that set the scene for a freeform lyrical reverie. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-25T23:05:24Z

Singing with burnished sound and lyrical richness, he looks like a natural leader, handsome, confident and something of an operator. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

With its lively, sometimes lyrical prose, “Strange Birds” respects its readers’ intelligence and sophistication. Saving Birds by Ruffling Some Feathers 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Like the best kids' cartoons, from The Simpsons to Toy Story, it works on both levels, and there are musical references here, if not lyrical ones, that older people, ie anyone over 12, will get. New band of the day ? The Crayonettes (No 856) 2010-08-27T15:13:00Z

In part that owes to Ramos, who turns on a light in his character, taking passages that could play like audition monologues and rendering them lyrical and natural. Review: ‘In Treatment’ Thinks You Could Use a Session, America 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

She embodies everything a perfect emcee should have – from timing, delivery, lyrical content, and style to the ability to flow crazy on a beat or drop classic complete songs. Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Somber, heartbreakingly lyrical melodies may seem self-sorry, but Elgar was a melancholic bloke who did, despite all, like a good day at the races. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But what lingers in the memory more than the acrobatics is the gorgeous singing tone Mr. Ma achieved in the lyrical variations. Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala - Music Review 2011-10-06T12:00:06Z

He seems as laconic and lyrical as he is onstage, except warmer and quicker to laugh. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

That, though, was a lyrical and oblique work that heard the abyss of nonexistence roaring within long silences. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Add in that Petty and the Heartbreakers have never recorded outside of Southern California — early years at Shelter in East Hollywood and Sound City in Van Nuys — and his frequent lyrical nods to his home. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

A song cycle for soprano and solo violin that draws together 40 brief extracts from Kafka's writings, diaries and letters, it's a work of sparse, lyrical beauty, that is essentially self-sufficient. Kafka Fragments – review 2013-04-01T10:55:02Z

In the Bartok, he plays with a rich timbre in the dark-hued lyrical moments and imbues the virtuosic passages with a crispness that renders the work’s contrasts particularly vivid. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

And they take a surprising approach to language: in addition to being confounding science-fiction novels, they are fractured, lyrical love letters to Florida’s mossy northern coast. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Under his neat baton, the melodies unfolded in long, lyrical spans, buoyed by the great rhythmic machine Schubert creates, but the moments of potential magic sped by too quickly for the players to harness them. BBCSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-17T14:00:17Z

Her world is rich indeed, one of yearning, secrets, defiance and lyrical flights of fancy. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

Each of the play’s 15 short scenes is perfectly balanced, the language both lyrical and lucid. Water by the Spoonful: The Acclaimed Play Too Good for Broadway 2013-01-24T15:20:42Z

It's impossibly weird and, in parts, beautifully lyrical. Crime fiction roundup ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:10Z

Schumann, like Brahms, was inspired by the Hungarian violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, especially while writing this grand sonata of turbulent contrasts and lyrical interludes. Music Review: Violin and Piano, in an Evening?s Conversation 2011-05-06T21:51:12Z

Would he, at 56, still have the lyrical elegance and youthful exuberance the role demands? When News Upstages an Opera Performance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

With Andrew Kennedy's unusually lyrical Evangelist at its heart, this was Bach as intimate chamber music rather than hectoring religious experience, favouring the beauty of the writing over its angularity. St Matthew Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T22:20:00Z

Just eight months later the band released their third LP, Caress of Steel – a fantastically lyrical and at times maddeningly overwrought album. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z

"Flattered," Loggins says he has definitely been influenced by the Lennon-McCartney catalog when it comes to chord changes and lyrical turns of phrase. Kenny Loggins on creating legendary soundtrack anthems for "Top Gun," "Caddyshack" and "Footloose" 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

The grandeur and power of this concerto were fully realized, yet Bronfman also drew back for lyrical, sensitive playing: delicate, quicksilver arpeggios, as well as keyboard thunder and lightning. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

He zoomed in on particular gestures, such as Beethoven’s curious exploitation of trills — bombastic and lyrical — to suggest connections across all three movements, and was attentive to the concerto’s enormous span of contrasts. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The two local artists share a subdued palette and a lyrical outlook on loss, decay and possible renewal. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The album’s less-than-smooth birth went hand in hand with its lyrical themes. Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson goes all-in on guitar 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Yes, Tropical Trident is pop and the lyrical content is silly, but I can't stop singing along to 'scotch in fancy glasses, chewing tropical Trident. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-06-13T12:09:00Z

Modeste reduced the boil to a simmer with a line as tranquil and lyrical as Roney’s were energetic and blazing, but he too soon ratcheted up into aggression. At Blues Alley, a five-alarm set from Miles Davis protege Wallace Roney 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

“He writes in a very lyrical way, but definitely contemporary.” Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

That novel — yearning, lyrical, mordant — tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire bootlegger and minor gangster, who remakes himself in a disastrous attempt to win Daisy Buchanan, the society girl he once loved. Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can. 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Here Ms. Islam equates filmmaking with graffiti and trespassing, making mischief of the most lyrical variety. Art Review: The Magic of Movies, Born From a Single Snapshot 2011-08-18T22:24:34Z

Hundreds of those contributions were in lyrical form, set to the tune of a Broadway or pop song. Service Advisory: ArtsBeat Is Finished. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The music felt intentionally wan, a sparse backdrop for Mr. Merritt’s lyrical convolution. Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z

All of those songs, which can be brittle from a lyrical perspective, benefited from the scale of the production here. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Here it was clear in its hovering veils of sound, its quietly lyrical serenity and its toccata flurries, before a steady, triumphal ending. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

They ended their recital with that Mozart Trio, Widmann's clarinet leading the way in the beautifully matched phrases and Tamestit's viola full of lyrical warmth. Widmann/Tamestit/Piemontesi – review 2013-02-15T15:52:00Z

Mr. Alessi explored these two voices with a wonderful variety of dynamics and textures, his sound sometimes airy and sometimes earthy, and mellow and creamy in the more lyrical passages. Philharmonic Players Tackle Solo Works at SubCulture 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Its lyrical, low-key jazz chamber music, but much more evocative than its casual delivery might suggest. Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor/Steve Swallow: One of Many - review 2011-03-24T22:10:00Z

It is a characteristic, irresistible Janacek move to break into a passage of swirling anxiety with a lush, lyrical orchestral surge, and Mr. Sharon and his collaborators echo these moments in sudden pullbacks of perspective. ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Uses Projections in Cleveland 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z