Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts in Symphony Hall are decided on, while two other performances are not yet definitely dated. These are the Bloch Symphony, to be given some time during the winter, and the Chorus from the last act of Parsival some time during the spring...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...sweet and tough country girl whom his father wishes him to marry. This difficulty is soon adjusted, with the aid of a huge funny waiter, played by Billy House. Billy House moved about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing "Whoopee" with suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants of an East Side subway car before the rush hour. The Lief lyrics, though not Gilbertian, were cheerful; the music of Maurice Yvain was pleasantly plentiful...
Senator Moses, Hooverizer of the East, was loudest in the Republican chorus of amazement. He said that Mr. Raskob was "chasing rainbows." He said: "My claim of Massachusetts for Hoover is emphatic and vociferous. . . . We laugh at the Raskob claim of Nebraska. . . . We have great expectations of Missouri. . . . I share Mr. Hoover's confidence that we shall carry New Mexico and Nevada...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Sizzling statistics on chorus girls in court (TIME...