Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of Budapest University was getting ready to open the institution for its 66th year. To sing at that occasion he invited a group of students who had been harmonizing in taverns and public squares. In more than two centuries that followed this first formal recognition, the Budapest University Chorus extended its fame far beyond Hungary, is today hailed as one of the finest choirs in the world. At the invitation of the Yale Glee Club, the 42 men who make up the present chorus arrived last fortnight in the U. S. for the first time...
...Budapest choristers' songs ranged from the latest works of Hungarian moderns to old folksongs about the Virgin, a farmer boy. a mourning dove. They sang them all in Hungarian, showing a meticulous concern for every phrase. Auditors marveled at the chorus's pitch and perfect time, the way it negotiated the most intricate part-singing without a slip...
Reason: Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld was rumored to want played at his wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three...
...English translation of a German translation of Balmont's Russian translation. Though the poem had grown worse in its travels, nobody seemed to care. The audience was thrilled by Rachmaninoff's ingenious sonorities, by the whispering pianissimi and loud thundering of the University of Pennsylvania chorus, by the shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded loudly, even more loudly when Composer Rachmaninoff came on after the intermission and played his Second Concerto in C Minor with almost inhuman virtuosity...
...rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead of Rainbow on the River, which is still considerably above average for its genre. Good shot: small Ainsworth, grudgingly allowed to attend his cousin...