Word: chorales
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Bizet: It is the fate of my other characters and my choral scenes that concerns me. And no offense to the 15-piece ensemble that the music director, Marius Constant, conducts at the rear of the stage and a bit off to the side, but I miss my big orchestra...
...collection of poems celebrating spring, the bawdiness of tavern life and the complications of love, probably written by students, scholars and monks who roamed Western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. Carl Orff, a German composer, set the poems to music in 1937 and the score now includes choral and solo singing in Latin, German and French...
...woman's calf, while she, on point, holds her other leg in a perfect attitude behind her--side by side with handstands, rolls and headstands. The entire melange of features--the bright colors of the leotards, the bells and drums of the orchestra, and the sometimes deeply religious choral music--together with the dancers' sincerity that produces a masterpiece...
...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...
...crowd gave a standing ovation at the end of the two-hour production--which was performed in English except for the choral dialogue, spoken in Ancient Greek...