Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience of 1,500 music-lovers at the annual Spartanburg, South Carolina, Music Festival on Friday, April 30, or, later, tuned in radio station WSPA at the proper time, you witnessed or heard a novel event in TIME'S history: the first performance, by a symphony orchestra and chorus of 70 voices, of Half Moon Mountain, a modern American ballad inspired by a story in TIME...
Although the music is Gerschefski's the lyrics are taken verbatim from TIME'S story in National Affairs, which was writen by Robert Hagy. The ballad's production became a Spartanburg communal project. It is arranged in four parts for orchestra, women's chorus and baritone solo. The baritone was a local coal and sand man; the orchestra and chorus were made up of college music students, housewives and Spartanburg businessmen. They rehearsed for weeks, not only for the ballad but also for the rest of the 35-year-old festival's program...
...chorus, the orchestra, and the settings all were magnificent as they always seem...
CCFers and many a Liberal cheered. From the Tories came a chorus of "No! No!" Arsenault's private bill had little chance of passage. Snapped the Ottawa Journal: "... A very silly notion. Words or the lack of them do not make our independence." But many loyal, pro-Empire Canadians agreed with Arsenault's purpose, if not his motive: they were tired of explaining to Americans that "Dominion" does not imply "domination...
...concert by the Chamber Orchestra on Sunday evening in Sanders Theater, the Harvard Music Club will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Founded in 1898 by George B. Weston '97, the group has flourished; withered, and now flourishes again, sponsoring Harvard's only chamber orchestra, its own chorus, and the popular series of House Concerts...