Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freshman Chorus; Crimson; Junior Parents Weekend House Chairman; RGA Secretary...
...Yale Russian Chorus is overwhelming. Within the first two hymns on the program they showed themselves as capable of a perfectly controlled triple piano as a gigantic, masculine fortissimo. As choruses go they are not large, but when they open up they sound like a stereo system turned to 11 1/2 on a scale...
Under the exuberant direction of Denis Mickiewicz the group sang as one like a great human organ with vocal chords in place of pipes. Their repertoire is small but polished. Everything is done from memory and it was obvious from the performance that the chorus knows each selection inside...
...Yale Russian Chorus is not without its faults. It has a tendency to get carried away with its own enthusiasm and power. In an immediate sense this leads to forcing and a regular tendency to go sharp, spoiling an otherwise acute sense of balance and intonation. By not conserving its strength, the chorus in the long run wears itself...
...kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...