Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After intermission, the final work, Te Deum, brought the audience to its feet with thunderous applause. This piece utilized a tenor, a full choir and a children's chorus. Its seven movements are taken from a liturgical text; Berlioz composed this piece soon after his father's death, which may have influenced his subject choice. After the grand introduction, Berlioz moves into some of the most beautiful melodies of his whole repertoire. Daring and original, this work demonstrates his mature style, his full mastery of blending orchestral and choral sounds...
...stage acoustics. Overall, the orchestra had a warm and inviting sound, more melodious than precise. Tenor John Alers did a superb job of projecting over the orchestra during his solos, though his voice was lost in the blast of the women's choir -- from the Tangle-wood Festival Chorus -- during Orphee. However, the women, too, deserve praise for their highly energetic and emotional singing...
...locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some Packers were singing in the shower was Lighter Fluid. (It was Whiter Blood...
AIDS has increased gay visibility and even gay acceptance; AIDS is the Chorus Line of epidemics. The new drug treatments and those still in the pipeline are tremendously promising, although the catchphrase "reduced viral load" somehow sounds like a favorite band of Beavis and Butt-head. A generation has been all but erased. AIDS has paradoxically proved that gay lives matter, that the days when President Reagan refused even to say "AIDS" in public are past. Perhaps the post-plague years will soon begin and all those quilt panels and ribbons and T shirts will become relics or even flea...
...people who do the real work. In one of them I meet a man who wears glasses so splattered with color they look like Jackson Pollock's safety goggles. This is Bob Bejan, executive producer of MSN, who began his career as a hoofer on Broadway in A Chorus Line. Later he produced interactive movies in which the audience dictated the course of action. Now he's the guy who "green-lights" MSN's "shows." That's what they call Websites here. Shows...