Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...
...time Conductor Del Mar came back, this time in full dress, to lead his six-piece orchestra into the introduction, everyone was ready to roar the first number, The Sweep's Song...
...Sweep! sweep! sweep...
...well-swept, uncluttered story of Sam, a little boy who is sold into service as a chimney sweep, then rescued by the five children of the house where he is sweeping, moved swiftly along; and Benjy Britten's simple but satisfying score, written in eight days, did not slow it down. Most popular chorus: the Night Song, in which the audience is divided, for singing purposes, into owls, herons, turtledoves and chaffinches. After they had joined gleefully in the final Coaching Song, there was nothing left to do but applaud themselves and the opera's makers. Curly-haired...
...alarm signal when they push the other. Another clubhouse is wired with trip cords; if an intruder steps on one, all the lights in the house go out. Still another keeps one brother bartending in the basement. In case of an inspection, the bartender is supposed to sweep his bottles into a suitcase and exit by a back door...