Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force to the musically thirsty, seems to have made little musical progress since that Curtis Lemay extravaganza. His To St. Cecilia was an exciting grotesque written in his consummately banal idiom featuring vapid stentorian outbursts for a brass ensemble and Victory at Sea-type arching melodies for the hapless chorus. This clangorous work, sounding like Hollywood with the rough edges knocked of, brilliantly captured a certain Pliestoceme ambience which would have been beyond the grasp of a lesser composer. The character of the performance was captured in the Dryden line "What passion cannot Music raise of quell," the answer...
While the legend of Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill expands into mythological proportions, Yale's offensive chorus line remains relatively unknown to sports fans outside New Haven...
...Cambridge Society did not succumb to this hazard. Its chorus was, above all, conscious of the spirit of liturgical dramatic works, so that while the performance was not a surpassingly beautiful one, it was exceptionally tasteful and engaging. And this was not so much the result of doggedly exhuming every ornament as of pentrating to the irreducible dramatic intention of each composition. The performers were most successful in the movingSong of Simeon, in which a baroque solo choir in the balcony sings a text different from that of the main choir, symbolizing in Schutz's words...
...Marat/ Sade was explicitly based on a cryptic plot suggestion by Artaud. As directed by Brook, it proved to be one of the most fecund works in the contemporary theater. The naked backside of Marat has turned the stage into a kind of auxiliary nudist camp. The tormented, writhing chorus of the inmates at Charenton popularized choreographic stage movement in straight plays, and the eerie sounds and gestures have become the language of antiword drama...
Harvard Glee Club Soloist; Harvard Chorus Soloist; PBH: Challenge, Columbia Point; Leverett House Opera Society; President Leverett House Music Society; Harvard Music Club; Harvard Dramatic Club; Hasty Pudding; Harvard Krokodiloes...