Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city editor of a sensational paper whips up his rewrite men like a dance director badgering a troop of chorus girls. "Write this story over again," he growls. "And put some menace into it. Give it some bated breath! Get excited! How can you expect the readers to get excited if you don't get excited yourself?" Last week Walter Lippmann, able, scholarly editor of the New York World, predicted an early disappearance of bated-breath or "yellow" journalism for the reason that the collective public palate cannot long remain unjaded. "When everything is dramatic, nothing after a while...
...facts about Mask & Wig . . . owns its own clubhouse in heart of Philadelphia . . . decorations and murals by Maxfield Parrish . . . only college production to play two solid weeks in metropolitan (Philadelphia) theatre . . . renowned for its dancing, chorus & solo . . . 1930 production John Faust, Ph.D. acclaimed by New York critics as most remarkable piece of satire in years . . . donators to alma mater of unit of dormitories bearing its name...
...Monday, April 21, and Tuesday, April 22, approximately 100 members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing the chorus parts in Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex", which will be staged in New York City at that time. A tentative list of 60 names of those who will go down has been drawn up, and the persons notified. The Club has been rehearsing all fall, while letters from Stravinski have intimated that he will himself attend the rehearsals toward the end of February...
...cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What a Chorus Sang...
...removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance...