Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Archibald MacLeish wrote his dramatic poem for radio, The Fall of the City, last year, he discovered several notable means and ends. For one thing he showed that the most persuasive of classic dramatis personae, the narrator or chorus, was none other than the most accepted public spokesman in 20th-century life, the radio announcer. The announcer could describe events in a way that would make them immediately believed...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Enrico Molinari, Mercedes Capsir, Enzo de Muro Lomanto and other artists, with orchestra and chorus from the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Most popular of all melodious old-time Italian operas, lustily performed by some of Italy's lustiest lilters. Judicious pruning has spared all the best bits. Highlight: Soprano Capsir's "Mad Scene...
Pert, jaunty, ingenious, fast as a pickpocket's fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could...
...Weill's twenty-two numbers are of the operetta type, hardly exciting with the exception of "How Can You Tell an American" and "The Scars", and are excellently rendered by the chorus; the principals, however, are less successful. Mr. Logan's work is good, but Mr. Mielziner's sets are a disappointment. Decidedly the show's happiest interludes come by virtue of the seven burghers of New Amsterdam...
...education department spends $200,000 a year, has some 22,000 members enrolled in more than 600 study groups in 58 cities, 25 States, three Canadian provinces. At its anniversary celebration in Washington Irving High School this week will be bigwig speakers, a union chorus of 100 voices, a union orchestra of 90 mandolins. Playing to capacity audiences on its Labor Stage, a theatre near Times Square, is its best-known product, the musical revue Pins and Needles...