Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millennium -- brings anxiety with it: the unavoidable doubts and mannerisms of the fin de siecle, when every kind of stylistic bubble rises to the cultural surface, swells and bursts with a soft plop and a whiff, while marsh lights flicker and the cultural promoters croak their Aristophanic chorus. The SoHo Tar Pits: heaven for the market, purgatory (or limbo, anyway) for judgment...
...Your Eyes and Who? continue to be sung in city parks and shower stalls by folks who neither know nor care what musical produced the tunes. Yet Kern realized better than anyone else that the melodic drama in so many of his songs -- of which the majestic cresting chorus of Ol' Man River is the most famous example -- demanded a dramatic anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that...
...Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
...premiere in July 1976 after a year of rehearsals. The unconventional Einstein was a near pantomime set to Wilson's typically elliptical spoken texts and allusive stage pictures of railroad trains and spaceships. There were no formal arias or indeed any set pieces at all; a small chorus sang "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight" and solfege syllables (do, re, mi) over hypnotic, relentless music. Sellout audiences loved it. The work toured Europe and then came to the Met in November...
...Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work. Many found it initially difficult to come to terms with the avant-garde's startling modernist images, such as Stalin's dance for 19 ostriches or its chorus line of caricatured black mammies swaying to the strains of On the Beautiful Blue Danube. But those who did, witnessed the foundation of much...