Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exactly thirty-five years ago the Harvard Glee Club went abroad and gained the distinction of being the first American college chorus to sing there. Since that time, and especially in the past five years, many choral groups have toured Europe...
Although an American chorus will no longer be a novelty for European ears, the Club is still bound to make a strong impression, for at least two reasons. One is the unsurpassed level of college singing that Woodworth has consistently elicited in recent years...
...hour for all rehearsal time after the first 15 hours each week, to reduce from 21 to 16 hours a week the rehearsal time that Met ballet dancers are required to put in without pay. The Met also threw in a job-security provision for the chorus and dancers. At week's end it seemed certain that the Met curtains will open on schedule...
...some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan-like a supporting player in Your Hit Parade-stood around changing his expression from sad to happy to suit her musical sentiments...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...