Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contacts from him. When he was 25, Prince and another Abbott aide, the late Robert Griffith, bought an option on a book called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels. From 164 investors, he raised $250,000 for the show-The Pajama Game. It is still playing on the road, so far has earned...
Orchestra and Chorus are outstanding and the soloists are good. They include Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jerome Mines, who sings majestically in spite of a few uncertain slides into home bass. Klemperer's sober new recording is musically the peer of Sir Thomas Beecham's big bright version with its heady hallelujahs (RCA Victor), and of Sir Adrian Boult's, which stars Joan Sutherland and her exquisite embellishments (London...
Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...
...choir at ten, but when his voice failed to change significantly after six years, the choirmaster advised him to quit lest he permanently injure his vocal cords. He had a brief fling with the local opera company but left because the director made him rehearse with the ladies' chorus. He took a job in a Sussex furniture store and married the owner's daughter...
...celebrate the end of Red China's month-long trade fair at Canton last week, a chorus of mountain girls sang of their yearning to be turned into wild geese so they could fly to Peking to be with Chairman Mao. Mao wishes that more Western businessmen would share that ardor, but his yearning has little more chance of fulfillment than that of the girls. Fewer countries sent delegations to the fair than in the past. While the range of goods that the Chinese showed off was wider, the quality showed only scant improvement. The Chinese-made suitcases were...