Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to sing well. Last night's concert was not professional, but nonetheless at the end you felt as though you really had beard a tremendous performance. It left you with an impression of massiveness, of light, and of extraordinary perfection. No one can deny that the Orchestra and Chorus have overcome "The Messiah's" difficulties and come through with a job well done...
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (soloists, chorus and orchestra conducted by Virgil Thomson; Victor, 10 sides). A condensed version of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein collaboration. Amusing the first time around, but hardly worth repeated playings. Performance and recording: good...
...more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...
...critics, in fact, rate him above Toscanini as a conductor, an excess of praise which De Sabata doesn't seek. He still refers to Toscanini as "Maestro" and means it literally. He was pleased pink last summer when Toscanini told him that La Scala's orchestra and chorus "sounds better than when I left...
Flappers & Cartwheels. The next year, Tallulah got to England, and became an immediate sensation. As a cigarette-smoking, short-skirted vamp, she was a hit in her first play. The part she played set the style for a series of underdressed, sexy roles, including a drunk flapper, a chorus girl, an artist's model, a trollop, and a few unfaithful wives. (She also found time to play Camille...