Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventeen songs and a frolicking chorus line pave the way for the eventual triumph of dramatic freedom over censorship in the lusty musical conceived by William S. Wheeling '50 and Russel A. Ames...
Great credit is due to Sam V. K. Willson who leaned back in his seat throughout, directing both the onstage and pit choruses. The stage being very small, he found it necessary to keep a majority of the dragoons and rapturous maidens seated in the pit. The idea was a great success. It not only left the stage uncluttered, but it provided the necessary volume for the chorus parts...
...chorus--Glee Club and Choral Society--has never done more justice to music than in "For unto us a Child is born," "His yoke is easy," and on the word "astray" from "All we like sheep." Some of the ordered enthusiasm put into the Hallelujah might be applied to "Since by man came death...
Pianist Tatum sat at a corner table, his customary bottle of beer before him, and admitted he was tired of the grind of nightclub shows, sometimes thinks of retiring to his home in California with his wife and two Doberman pinschers. But as the intermission pianist swung into a chorus of Basin Street, he turned his head attentively. "He's got some good ideas," he said. "You can't create everything. You hafta listen to the other fella." His strong fingers flexed in an imaginary run. "I'm always tryin' new ideas. No matter...
...great theorist himself, he is no advocate of uninterrupted theorizing, but believes that teachers and students should refresh themselves constantly in the practical aspects of music. Already in his course, he is forming a chorus which will start rehearsals for a concert of thirteenth and fourteenth century music in March...