Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately arose an excited chorus of Tammany's other women leaders: "We don't do anything like that in my district. . . . Why, I never heard of such a thing! ... I can't understand why Annie said anything like that. . . . That sort of thing is entirely foreign to me. . . . No, I don't agree with her at all. ... It was a great shock to me. . .. Only one judge comes from my district and he didn't give me a present and he isn't a rotter...
Stanza: O happy day that fixed my choice On Thee, my Savior and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its raptures all abroad. Chorus: Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away! He taught me how to watch and pray, And live rejoicing ev'ry day; Happy day, happy day When Jesus washed my sins away...
Most U. S. school children would probably find the Brecht-Weill opus perplexing. The pattern is complex: Lindbergh's Flight is a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Lindbergh, represented by a tenor, describes himself, his preparations, his emotions during the flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep...
April 10-13-Production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association; at Philadelphia. Direction: Leopold Stokowski. Scenic designs: Robert Edmond Jones. Chorus: Princeton University. April 21-Oedipus Rex in Manhattan. Direction by Stokowski; chorus from Harvard. April 23-25-Festival of chamber music; at Washington, D. C. Sponsor: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. April 27-Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy:* Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana by Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $13.50)-Mascagni's earthy melodrama expertly played on its home field. Conductor Carlo Sabajno captains an evenly matched team. Symphonic: Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky and the Orchestra des Concerts Straram under Ernest Ansermet (Columbia, $6)-The composer provides the lace work for the Caprice which was played with great success this winter by Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazunov's Seasons by a Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Glazunov (Columbia...