Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President & Mrs. Roosevelt held their annual garden party for crippled veterans (Civil, Spanish and World Wars), shook hands for nearly an hour, applauded spirituals by a Negro chorus...
...this year's slogan: ''Foster Local Music Talent." Radio broadcasts included concerts by the New England Conservatory and the Boston Symphony, the entire Smetana Opera The Bartered Bride sung by the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, concerts by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Musical Arts Chorus of Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir of Lincoln, Neb., the Roth Quartet playing in Princeton, the University of Michigan Band. Pennsylvania alone arranged 50 special programs. Pittsburgh played orchestral works written by Pittsburghers. Los Angeles put on Charles Wakefield Cadman's Indian opera Shanewis. New Orleans had choruses sing...
...Rakoczy March from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz *Overture to "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Fugato on a well-known theme McBride *Hungarian Dances (Nos. 5 and 6) Brahms Chorus with Orchestra: Harvard Glee Club--G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Two Italian Folk Songs Tarantella (Prologue to the Harvard Classical Club play of 1936) Elliot Carter '30 *Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounow" Moussorgsky *Bolero Ravel Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson '30 *The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *"Up the Street," March Morse...
...Boulevard near Western became a factory for mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap. Janet Gaynor swung on a chandelier from the stage of Loew's State in Los Angeles; Myrna Loy's rice-powdered legs pranced in many a chorus; Bing Crosby, shaking with stage fright, croaked Mississippi Mud. A buxom girl soprano who had worked with them in Tait's signed a Metropolitan opera contract in a round, florid hand: Mary Lewis. Others who drew Fanchon & Marco checks were Martha Raye, June Knight, Mitchell & Durant, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny...
Best dances: Astaire solo in a mechanistic routine in the ship's engine room; Astaire & Rogers plus a masked chorus from which she is almost indistinguishable; Astaire & Rogers on roller skates in Central Park. Best tunes in the slick George & Ira Gershwin score: They All Laughed, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing...