Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
...wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music and Opera Without Singing, he can afford to risk a few on more esoteric items. His own pet recording project: the huge (oversize symphony, chorus, soloists, four brass choirs) and presumably profitless Requiem by Berlioz. This way, he believes, everybody wins...
Last week, in the letters column of the Daily Telegraph and elsewhere, a chorus of puzzled listeners cited examples of peculiar BBC enunciation, which, taken together, added up to a handy glossary of current radio speech in Britain. Samples: Miss Treeden-Britain's Foreign Secretary...
...composition needs some principle of organization, some inner logic that not only gives the separate sections a raison d'etre, but also builds to a culmination. The cantata's failure to do these things is attributable to several factors. There seemed to be virtually no relation between orchestra and chorus. The vocal sections were usually accompanied by only the piano, and it is significant that the one exception--Robert Gartside's tenor solo with light orchestral accompaniment--was among the high points of the performance. The conducting of Michael Greenebaum kept the difficult music on a fairly even keel. Perhaps...
...assortment of freight cars making their way across the nation last week was obviously on no ordinary mission. When the cars left Manhattan, they had been blessed by a cardinal, a rabbi and an Episcopal bishop, had pulled out to a chorus of God Bless America. They carried boxes and crates of supplies ranging from drugs and machinery to pencils. Destination of the cargo: Korea...