Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the 5th century B.C. join hands as the Harvard Classical Club whips into final shape its presentation of Aristophanes' fantasy. "The Birds" to be given Friday and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...
...chorus of 13 bedecked in feathers and representing birds of a mythical kingdom, "swings out" with a none too hospitable greeting to Aristophanes' two wandering Athenians who are searching for "some quiet, easy-going place where they can settle down and dwell in peace." After a struggle and a series of complications, Athenians and birds are finally united into "one big happy family" and the play ends with a marriage feast...
...attempt, however, has been made to suggest the kind of music that would have accompanied the production in the fifth-century. It was written by Leonard Bernstein '39 who not only directs the chorus but also has organized and directs the orchestra accompanying the play...
Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...
Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...