Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature Boy's lyrics, also by Ahbez, were a cut above the usual Tin Pan Alley doggerel...
About the participants there is little to be said except to commend them all. The chorus sang excellently, and they knew exactly what they were doing, which is always a help. Ditto for the orchestra. The soloists, Ellen Faull, Eunice Alberts, David Lloyd, and George London, were almost uniformly fine (I found the Agnus Dei particularly well done), and over them all was Koussey, red-faced and snorting, combining his usual technical perfection with a magnificent conception of what it was all about, outdoing himself, as the saying goes. Champagne and lotus blossoms for all hands...
Seventeenth-century music will get the spotlight in the Polyphonic Choir's concert tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Christ Church, 1 Garden Street. The Chorus and orchestra will give Carissinil's "Jephte" and Buxtchude's "Rejoice, Beloved Christians...
...angular grace and deadpan beauty have made her for seven years one of Harry Conover's top ($25-an-hour) models. But after a chorus of critical raves for her Liz, she said: "I just want parts and more parts...
...Accompanied Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret to Constitution Hall for a concert by the Don Cossack Chorus (whose members had been carefully investigated by the Secret Service and duly pronounced White Russians). The President slipped out before the intermission, went to the Statler Hotel to address a savings bond rally. As he left for the concert again he said: "I've got to escort them [Mrs. Truman and Margaret] home. What I mean is, I have to escort them to the White House. There's a decided distinction and a difference...