Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soloists include Joan Lunn '55, Robert Gartside 2G, Robert M. Simon '55, plus the chorus and orchestra of the Harvard Music Club, conducted by Howard Brown...
Come On, Six! Millikin stayed in his dream world. "At any rate," he said, "that is what the Senator is thinking about. There bejeweled women congregate-I suppose. There is a very toothsome chorus line out in front-I suppose. They have acts of various types...
...vaudevillian humor, the film needs ample scenery and enough action to keep from becoming drab. Instead, its producers confine themselves to an actual stage, and proudly advertise that the film is an exact replica of what was seen on Broadway. The sets are as scantily decked as the chorus girls and hardly as well made. This is a disadvantage doubly accented by a color process which brings out blues and greens, adding a blue bag to every eye and just a dash of purple to the lips. The effect is pretty macabre...
...Pennsylvania-born Alex Kallao uses string bass and drums to give his performance more body and bounce. His arrangements (of such standards as Tea for Two and Bewitched) usually begin with gentle but full-bodied harmonizations of the tune. Then, grinning toward the crowd, he "takes off" for a chorus or two of swift-moving improvisations that feature unerring cascades of notes in the right hand and ear-teasing harmonic changes beneath. His style is not yet so distinctive that a listener could identify him blindfolded, but his razzle-dazzle endings get him a big hand...
...forget his manner of conducting. In his pamphlet "The Reformation of the Glee Club" published in 1922, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 described a typical Davisonian rehearsal: "As you slip into a seat at the rear of the room, you hear, cutting through the deep, swelling tones of the chorus, Davison's sharp voice: 'Now's your chance! That's it! Good! First rate! This is a bad place; look out for it! That's the way, basses! Eyes! Eyes...