Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward B. Hill of the Harvard music faculty will be the feature of the Symphony Hall programs this Friday and Saturday. The Harvard-Radcliffe chorus will assist in this poem which was written particularly for the fiftieth anniversary of the orchestra...
...broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been treated to an antique hero's chorus, a three-legged limping approach, an uncontrollable wailing and self-lamentation." Bashan pretends to be a mighty hunter before his lord, actually never kills any thing but field mice, though he thinks him self a ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught a pheasant by accident and had no idea...
Rehearsals in preparation for this concert have been in progress since September 26, when the score and parts of the composition, the words for which were written by Robert Hillyer, were finished. The singers who will perform in this offering are nearly all members of last year's chorus. While the veterans have been engaged in preparing for this presentation, which is unusually early in the season, the new members have been rehearsing the program for the regular school and local concerts. In addition to these latter appearances it is expected that the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe will...
...Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory...
Judged on its own merits, The Second Little Show is an extremely tasteful production. On the same ilk as Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...