Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swelling chorus of voices which have been prescribing methods for revival of the Democratic Party was added last week the soft Georgia drawl of Senator Richard Russell. Speaking at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh, N.C., the South's favorite pre-convention candidate in 1952 spelled out the current thinking of Southern Democrats...
Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, conducted by Vassily Nebolsin; Vanguard, 3 LPs). For opera lovers looking for a new but basically old-fashioned work. The plot, derived from Gogol stories, is full of romantic love and farcical confusion, but has a happy ending...
...Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly...
...chorus varied in function and effectiveness. Sometimes commenting on the action, sometimes becoming a part of the action, it resembled the chorus of a Greek tragedy. Berlioz was no genius at writing choral music. His counterpoint is at times turgid, his sonorities monotonous. Nevertheless, there are passages in the final scene where the words and music combine in mutual enhancement, and even steal the show from the orchestra. The Harvard and Radcliffe choral groups, trained by G. Walace Woodworth, were no better than usual, but they really couldn't be. That they were able to successfully project the rather unrewarding...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...