Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most recent large-scale work, a Requiem for double chorus, which will be performed tonight in Sanders by the Glee Club and Choral Society, was composed in isolation. "I had a sabbatical in 1957-8 and my friends assumed that I had left town for the winter. Really, I had just stayed at home on Brattle Street working long hours in my studio there. When I appeared at school next fall, some colleagues asked me how I had enjoyed my trip. The solitude that I attained in that year was invaluable. After two months of undisturbed labor, I found that...
Interspersed between the talks will be a scene from Wonderful Town, folk songs, a modern dance number, and several selections from the Freshman Chorus and the Choral Society...
Bigger & Better. Unlike Washington, California attracts few experienced rowers, and Ebright must build his men from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright...
...Chorus of Clouds, superbly led by Elizabeth MacNeil, collide harshly to produce thunder, gesture formally in their odes, and dance gracefully to pipe and drums in their lovely pastel costumes (by Sheila Finn). And Nick Boone has achieved a wide variety of effects with only nine lights...
...hesitate to attend tonight's performance even if the play's text is all Greek to you. The Classical Players' production is unflaggingly engrossing to both eye and ear; and the entire cast and personnel can justifiably repeat the Chorus' concluding sentiment: "We've done our job very fairly indeed today...