Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chorus of "The Buccaneer" is rehearsing daily under the coaching of W. D. Brookings...
...music will be more important than heretofore, since it will have a truly academic character and is not intended to be an accompaniment and encouragement to the conversation of the audience. This will be under the direction of Professor Parker. The music will be given by a large chorus of male voices, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra of about fifty pieces, which has already done excellent work, and the organ. Perhaps the most interesting number will be the ode which Edmund Clarence Stedman '53, has written for the occasion, and which Professor Parker has set to music. Immediately before...
Professor White's translation was illustrated by lantern slides representing the principal characters, the chorus, and various scenes in the play. The second half of the translation will be read next Wednesday evening...
...best pieces was the duet of Cupid and Venus by J. Purdon '95. The chorus showed the results of long and thorough training and their singing, especially in the Wedding Chorus and "Down, Down to Hades" was very effective...
...stage in the days of the old comedy was often crowded, that is there were a great many of the actors and chorus on at a time. The chorus had all sorts of accessories to carry out the illusion. The dramatic structure of the old comedy was rather curious. First was the prologue which gave a general idea of what the play was about. Then followed the episodes. About the middle came the parabasis, when the actors withdrew and the entire chorus came forward and amused the audience. Peculiar to the old comedy is the "agon," or contest, between...