Word: choirful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blinkered idealists against the evidence of repression, even genocide, within the Soviet Union. These radical "good Germans" had their excuses, as do all true believers. But were they as ingenuous as Daniel makes them out to be? On the film's testimony, U.S. Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...
...attractive, enabling the actors to sing clearly without getting out of breath. The choreography enhance the variety of musical genres explored through the how as does the wide range of melodies: The jazzy "Poor Baby" sung by the five wives conveys its sultriness through excellent harmonies, and the gospel choir effect in "I'm Getting Married displays another, more refined side of the actors voices...
...Leake as the panicking Amy does a magnificent job of spewing out the quickly paced lyrics without jumbling them up. Her frazzled acting seems extremely comic beside her calm understanding lover with whom she has lived for the past seven years. The rest of the ensemble clad in black choir robes and singing steady choral refrains rounds off an exquisite number...
While the bells of Poznan pealed and a full-voiced choir intoned a hymn, John Paul mounted the red-carpeted stairway leading to the altar and a gigantic reproduction of the icon of the Black Madonna. With the timing of a seasoned performer, he paused halfway to raise both arms in a gesture of blessing. Then the Pope joined 20 bishops in golden robes in a solemn ceremony beatifying Sister Urszula Ledochowska, a Polish educator who organized Catholic schools before World War I. As the Pope conferred on Sister Urszula the title "blessed," the next-to-last step...
Kuumba Singers--Established in 1970, Kuumba is one of the oldest and most prominent Black groups on campus. Most of the choir's singers are Harvard students, though some come form other area colleges. The singers rehearse weekly and perform on campus and at area churches and schools...