Word: chorales
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Radcliffe Choral Society. Perform As theTrees Let Go Their Leaves. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m.$5 for students...
...explicit, the staging more so -- the costumes display bulging breasts and buttocks and inflatable dildos, all apparently in keeping with the bawdry of the original style. In a further attempt to evoke antique comedy, or at least its descendants in vaudeville and burlesque, Hall interpolates music, dance and choral antics. The most modern moment has James remove her mask to confront the audience about global tolerance of violence. Translator Ranjit Bolt, who also worked with Hall in Tartuffe, displays equal sensitivity to Aristophanes' world and to contemporary parallels in, say, Bosnia...
...partner Goldberg with someone as agreeable and unthreatening as Danson, if you can find a director as comically inventive as Richard Benjamin, and if you can figure out a way to cast Will Smith. He plays Zora's best friend, Tea Cake, and his marvelously freewheeling choral effects -- a muttered aside here, a strangled warning there -- give the movie a waywardness it desperately needs...
...grand finale of the weekend was a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Symphony Hall in Boston Sunday night with four student groups: the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Harvard Glee Club...
...Westminster Choir, the Netherlands National Chorus, and the Ohio State University Robert Shaw Choral--all of them professional groups--were also given featured spots...