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There have been attempts to find Moses' tomb. But from Scripture all we have is a chorus of complaint, a last hurrah and then nothing. The stark ending moves Kirsch to acrid eloquence. "The life of Moses can be understood as an existential tragedy," he writes. "He was cast adrift at birth in a hostile world, he spent a long and lonely life in constant pursuit of a goal that always eluded him, and he died a lonely death...
...voice of God was one of the more difficult choices in the film. "Every race and color and creed has a claim to the voice of God," Katzenberg says. Using an idea of producer Cox's, the animators put together a scratch track that was an eerily effective chorus of every character in the film, with the dominant voice morphing from man to woman to child. But consultant Schwartz-Getzug vetoed that approach, saying some people would be offended if the voice of God sounded--even momentarily--like a woman's. Kilmer ended up supplying the voice...
...characters were also never alone on the stage but were surrounded by usually silent, black-clad figures who, like a modernized Greek chorus, enacted and visually expanded the ideas behind each scene. The characters were another of Bishop's methods of heightening the theatricality of the play...
Kiely says the Adams dinner included singing by the smaller Kuumba chorus ensemble, Brothers, a dance performance by an Indian student, a telling of the story of Hanukkah and a "secular marking of winter...
Opera ultimately belongs to the singers, however, and La Traviata was no exception. All the performers, leads and chorus alike, showed remarkable vocal prowess and passion, and among the minor characters mezzo-soprano Gale Fuller's charming and coquettish Flora Bervoix (a courtesan whose wardrobe is far more scandalous than that of Violetta) was especially memorable and a well-needed break from the heavy tragedy of the rest of the opera...