Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing successfully with champagne and chorus girls, the University of Paris draws a few Harvard language concentrators for study each year. A junior year abroad can be valuable for two reasons: to learn more about la vie franchise by living it, and--more importantly--to use intellectual facilities unavailable in Cambridge...
...first time, Menotti turned from small-scale, small-cast operas, such as The Consul, and created a full-scale Italian-style opera, used a large chorus and a 56-piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly...
...Moscow to retrieve an errant comrade. The trio is wasted, however, in a show which can afford no waste; their "Siberia" number is as flat and as cold as that overworked land itself. In two other instances, "The Red Blues" and "Too Bad," they are joined by the entire chorus for masterpieces of staging and action. Since the audience is at no time caught by the musical, this brilliant motion is another waste--more pointless than exciting...
Schoenberg: Gurre Lieder (chorus, orchestra and soloists conducted by Rene Leibowitz; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Lush, early work-written before his atonal period-by the late Austrian composer in a performance that is not likely to be surpassed for precision and clarity...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Vienna Philharmonic, chorus and soloists conducted by Erich Kleiber; London). Familiar music given an uncommon glow as sung by the beautiful voices of Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden...