Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This evening in Sanders Theatre the first performance of Racine's "Athalie" will be given. The laborious work of preparation was concluded on Friday evening when the first public rehearsal left no doubt about the success of the production. The work of the entire cast and the chorus, together with the musical part of the performance are completely successful. The scenery makes an appropriate back ground for the costumes, which are of great richness, and merely as a series of striking pictures the play is worth seeing. Added to this, however, the acting of the characters in the cast, almost...
...Chorus of young women of the trbe of Levi...
Other women parts are taken by Miss Dora Drew, Miss Katharine Searle, daughter of Professor Searle of the Harvard Observatory; Miss E. Carter, Miss A. E. Storrs, daughter of the Rev. L. K. Storrs of Saint Paul's Church, Brookline. Miss Storrs also leads the chorus in the rythmic interludes...
Yesterday afternoon the first rehearsal of Athalie with the musical accompaniment of the chorus was given in Sanders Theatre. Thirty members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra furnished the instrumental music and the Cecilia sang in French Racine's chorals. This musical chorus supplements and tones the strong moments of the play and is usually accompanied by the rythmic motions of the Radcliffe chorus which does not sing. Enriched by the setting of Eastern costumes against the temple scenery, these periods of the tragedy should prove very beautiful. The music of Mendelssohn is perfectly adapted to the sentiment and secret fervor...
...principals have been studying their parts during the summer and all of them have been hard at work rehearsing with Professor de Sumichrast for the past month. Twenty-five Radcliffe students are to take part in the play. A few have minor parts and the rest form the chorus, which Racine uses very much as the Greek tragic chorus. The rehearsals of the chorus are held at Radcliffe and at the house of Professor de Sumichrast. Two divisions have been formed from the Harvard undergraduates in the play, and these have been rehearsing on alternate days...