Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...officers for the present year are: President, J. Edward Weld, Harvard; vice-president, George E. Wood, Columbia; secretary, Noah H. Swayne, Jr., Yale; Treasurer, Burt L. Fenner, Rochester University. Arthur D. Woodruff is conductor of the club, which has a chorus of nearly 60 voices...
...chorus will consist of mixed voices and will meet twice a week in Lower Dane. There will be about twenty-five meetings in all, the fee for the whole course being $3.00. The material which will be taken up has not yet been decided upon...
...both sides the Atlantic throughout the present generation, and it enjoyed the greatest popularity upon the European stage for more than a quarter of a century before it was heard in this country. Its music shows that remarkable fertility of Auber's melodic invention and his genius in chorus writing is at all times prominently exhibited in its numbers. The story is full of interest with ample contrast in its scenes and incidents, and the humerous features afford opportunities which greatly heighten its enjoyment. The cast will be as follows...
...since it is impossible to appreciate or even to understand the Greek dramas without knowing how they were brought out; and their representation was dependent on the inner arrangements of the theatre. Until recently it has been universally believed that, in the action of the Greek play, actors and chorus occupied separate parts of the theatre:- the former a narrow stage ten or twelve feet high, the latter the lower orchestra. Professor Doerpfeld maintained that this is incorrect, that, in fact, the Greek theatre had no stage at all. His arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen...
...action; and, finally, the supposed evidence of the theatre at Megalopolis and of certain pictures upon Greek vases from lower Italy. He showed that not only is the evidence of the plays themselves and also of other branches of literature in favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that in none of the Greek theatres of the classical age, of which many have recently been laid open, has a genuine stage been discovered. What has hitherto been identified as a stage-the proskenion-is in fact only a decorative member. The hypothesis...