Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived, is a commonplace in the slicks but genuine tragedy would be as out of place there as a chorus from 'Antigone' interpolated between innings at a baseball game. . . . That fact, not the timidity or hypocrisy of editors, determines the nature of magazine fiction...
...publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts copied just in time for its joint performance by the Boston Symphony and the Helsinki University Chorus, making its U. S. debut...
...Chorus, which is known in Finland as "Y.L.", has aroused and maintained an interest in choral music in Helsinki for many years, inspring some of the finest compositions of Sibelius. For the last six seasons Martti Turunen has been their conductor...
Three years ago they made their first extensive venture outside of their own country, giving concerts in the principal European capitals with great success. The present chorus consists of picked singers from a much larger number...
Incidentally, the whole chorus was entertained on New Year's Eve by Jaakko Mikkola, coach of the track team and himself a Finn...