Word: choruses
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Under the new system, now six years old, each chorus has changed conductors twice, on average, in the past three years...
While some Chorus members say they hope the system will improve, others are more cynical...
...harsh calculus of public-school budgets, that means electives like PE or chorus could be the first to go. In inner-city schools, the cuts can be even less kind. For Deborah Holmes, the principal at Jefferson Junior High School, just a few blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol, the choice was between buying more computers and doing something to raise her students' scores. In the end, Holmes opted for a $21,000 contract with The Princeton Review, reasoning that her students would become more computer literate by spending much of their time taking online practice exams...
...play opens with black-caped ballim—the Biblical figures associated with war, pleasure, sacred prostitution and virginal sacrifice—chanting an opening chorus and lighting incense in a quasi-religious ceremony. With convincing performances turned in by Robert A. Hodgson ’05 and Michael E. Moss ’03, the four ballim constantly assume different roles in the play as they people Ba’al’s strange reality. They literally drag Ba’al into this dreamlike world and then test his moral resolve by slipping into characters that alternately...
...clear: the Wu belong in the shadowy, dust-ridden depths of the city. Without a trace of moodiness or grime, they sound sadly out of place. And though every emcee is in top form—particularly Inspectah Deck and GZA—the chemistry is gone. In the chorus to “Uzi,” the crew chants “Y’all dudes is whack / Face it, the Wu is back,” but in retrospect, this sounds like a desperate plea from a lost beast...