Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...
Asked what he meant, Tobaccoman Hill said: "There were two chorus girls on the corner of Forty-Second Street and Fifth Avenue...
Saturday night the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a chorus composed of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Chorale gave the third performance of Beethoven's Mirza Solemnis to an enthusiastic audicure which packed Symphony Hall. Although Boston has been accused of coldnest towards choral works, the tremendone applause which greeted the performance completely justified Koussevitsky's desire to present this work in an ordinary subscription concert...
When it became known this fall that the work was to be given again, there was considerable fear that the chorus would not be able to achieve as finished a performance as it did last spring. Yet it was not until this performance that the chorus hit its peak. When Koussevitsky kissed his hand to the Radcliffe girls who successfully sang one of the most difficult works ever to be written, his beaming face acknowledged a splendid job of singing. The difficult fugues in the Gloria and Credo demanding all the resources of a chorus were done superbly, the tremendous...
Success should be more likely this time, thanks mainly to a reduced and more experienced chorus. The sopranos do remarkably well with their high B's, and the chorus as a whole lacks that unwieldiness which nearly brought disaster last year. On the debit side thus far must be listed Mr. Burgin's violin solo in the "Benedictus" and the performance of the women soloists. Miss Vreeland, the soprano, has the unfortunate habit of stealing upon notes, while the contralto, Miss Kaskas is too sugary. It is to be hoped that at the actual concerts these flaws will disappear...