Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuing chorus of dissent makes such fears sound absurd. The fact is that never before has the U.S. been so tolerant of dissent-especially in wartime. And that fact is all the more impressive when measured against the country's history. For dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself...
...would be performed in Sanders Theatre, which except for its size has very little to recommend it as an auditorium for music. Vocal sound, particularly when female, tends to get trapped in great pockets of space. The shape of the Sanders stage made it necessary to have the entire chorus stage right, facing stage left at right angles to the audience--a position not in the least conducive to projection. Moreover, Sanders is across the street from the fire station, and the wailing sirens interrupted the concert several times...
...predictions Hathaway's Fidelio should have been a failure. That it was certainly not. Using the Bach Society Orchestra as a base, he managed to assemble many of the best instrumentalists at Harvard; for his chorus he drew heavily from the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. It is a tribute to his musicians' intelligence and ability to sightread, and to his own assiduity and seriousness as a conductor, that they got through the music as well as they...
...Gott. welch' Dunkel hier" really has too many A's and and Bb's for anyone to cope with and Dwver showed severe signs of strain. Nonetheless he sand with emotion, a quality that had been lacking in the opera up to that point, especially in the men's chorus and the ensembles...
...protesting group, which included students and professors from Harvard, M.I.T., B.U., and Northeastern as well as members of Boston's Greek-American community, also sang a four minute chorus from the Greek national anthem in the street below the consulate...