Word: chorally
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...March, is the Mahagonny Songspiel (1927) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, a small-scale early draft of their corrosive parable, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The eccentric director Peter Sellars has eccentrically decided to combine this with the same singers performing eight Bach choral works. But the piece de resistance, which just finished two weeks of performances in Paris and is due in Brooklyn in May, is a 313-year-old opera that almost nobody had heard of for the past couple of centuries. It is Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to King...
...onslaught of feathers and sequins. During I Can't Give You Anything but Love, a song about poverty, the stage is aswirl with what looks like gold and diamonds. The title number, which was wrenchingly performed this season in Ain't Misbehavin', is used here to bring on a choral stomp. Almost perversely, the blues, an art rooted in specific American history, is methodically detached from its context, as if the past were so much soil to be brushed from the roots of an ornamental shrub destined for transplant...
...hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state and the choral potboilers like The Vow of the People's Commissar were a small price...
...Collegium Musicum and the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) will perform works by Harvard composers tonight, including the world premier of a piece by a graduate student in the Math Department, members of the organizations said yesterday...
...first third of Wim Wenders' long, gorgeous, swoony, dead-serious fairy tale, the voices of today's Berlin rise like the choral symphony of a great city. Then, gradually, a few solo stories can be heard. An old man named Homer (Curt Bois) recalls the days, once upon a time, when a poet had listeners, drawn into a circle; now he has only solitary readers, unable to warm themselves at the long-ago communal campfire of art. A visiting Hollywood actor (Peter Falk) teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee...