Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot presents the oft-dramatized story of Becket as a morality play, a lesson in the nature of martyrdom, and eschews all the possible theatrics in the tale. He manipulates a sparse collection of performers--Becket, three priests, four tempters, four knights, and a chorus of women--through a ritual that both plumbs the deep seas of Christian theology and plunders pagan mythology for parallels and a natural background. The mutable verse form, with irregular rhymes and cyclical repetition, can hypnotically enthrall you even if you don't quite catch Eliot's meaning...
...vacuum cleaner down there--the best," says hurler Rob Alevizos, who adds to the chorus of compliments by chiming in "Rick is a super...
...Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right cannot see the action in a big scene...
...heard this sort of talk before, but a 1955 clip of Turner performing his "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (later covered by Bill Haley, Chubby Checker, and Elvis himself) makes the connection between KansasCity swing and rock 'n' roll strikingly clean. When talk turns to Charlie Parker, the opening chorus of "Hot House" rumbles in the background, and Ricker treats us to the only two minutes of Parker footage in existence. This 1952 clip, with Bird's serene brilliance and Dizzy's inspired mugging, by itself makes The Last of the Blue Devils compulsory for fans of any kind of jazz...
...successfully rendered in "Riot Act." Hanging on every heavy, condemnatory thump of Pete Thomas's drum as he is led into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea on behalf of emotion to a cold, insolent spouse. Elvis climaxes musically by extending the verse just short of the chorus, tension building as he fights to squeeze more and more lines into the measures until he rams against the downbeat and spills over, sobbing, into the refrain (which, incidentally, makes no sense...