Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
...kids sit in with the orchestra once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (the London,Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). In his first successful concert work for chorus and orchestra,* written in 1930, Stravinsky shows that he knows how to use voices as well as instruments with pungency, economy and originality. Fellow composers, in & out of Hollywood, have borrowed from it. Performance: excellent. Recording: excellent...
...danced in the chorus of a Warner Bros, musical. She worked in horse operas...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...