Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture starts out auspiciously as the story of the first flyers who took the airmail, back in the "Twenties. The scene is a circus, complete with a rudimentary chorus line and four brothers who put on a daredevil air show. The audience is set for an hour and a half of rare entertainment, when the story collapses with a whimper into the worst kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them...
Right at the beginning, a sultry blonde appears in front of the chorus line. A little is seen of her then, and everyone begins to sit up, hoping for more. She has a hoarse voice and she is not much of an actress, but she is entertainment--good, old-fashioned cheesecake. She appears only once again, and the audience is left nostalgically thinking of the first scene, which, if corny, has more personality than is supplied by Sonny Tufts, his three brothers, and the girl, all rolled into a neat airmail package...
...biggest box-office draw of the summer has proved to be the second series, when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
...occasion Berlioz, a Paul Bunyan of music, hired a military band of 200, added 80 strings and a chorus of 200.* But his stirring symphony could barely be heard in the square. Wrote he: "The final blow came when the troops of the National Guard began to march away to the accompaniment of fifty drums, which continued to play during the entire performance of the Apotheosis...
...scarce diggings of classical band literature, adapted its score for the 56 instruments in the Goldman Band. Said he: "Few, if any, bands today could manage to produce the eight bassoons which Berlioz desired." Goldman substituted saxophones for some of the bassoons, eliminated the strings but kept the chorus. Even played in more modest proportions, Berlioz' big work sounded both noisy and exultant...