Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the actors seem fundamentally removed from their characters and present a muddled interpretation of Aristophanes' play--neither conveying nor critiquing its true spirit. The chorus' efforts to aestheticize the obscenity through dance, ominous vioces and hand-held masks, and thereby to introduce a deeper level to the sexual conflict, are awkwardly staged and difficult...
Instead, Taylor will conduct a new, "elite"24-member chorus, Epps said. Singers in the groupwill be picked from the Holden Chapel choralgroups--Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Radcliffe ChoralSociety, Harvard Glee Club and Collegium Musicum...
...melody, slow chorus from Verdi'sNabucco, part of which translates roughlyas "Oh, my country, so lovely and so lost! Oh,remembrance, so beautiful and so despairing...
...didn't understand then why old men wereweeping as the chorus sang, for I didn't know thewords. I understood later...
...very musical and handsome chorus completes the cast, whose loud denunciation of Alfredo's public shaming of Violetta in the second act is particularly powerful. Joel Bard's musical direction keeps the pace from dragging while making the most of expressive opportunities for the able and tightly synchronized orchestra. Of note is the delicate balance achieved of players and singers in the large ensembles...