Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Iolanthe.The second week of the run of "Iolanthe" at the Globe Theatre began Monday night. The performance has gained somewhat in smoothness during the past week. The orchestra still persists in drowning the voices of the choruses, however; this is especially in the first act, where the enjoyment of the opera is often seriously marred in this way. Miss Palliser continues to carry off the honors of the presentation. Her interpolated songs, and the queen's song with the chorus and the quartette in the second act are the numbers received with most favor by the audience...
Union Hall was comfortably filled last night at the first Boston performance of the Hasty Pudding theatricals. The audience was very enthusiastic and a great many of the numbers had to be repeated. The verses of the topical songs were entirely exhausted. The principals sang excellently, and the chorus showed careful training...
...Chorus of Wagner," by W. M. Moody, has something of the grandeur in thought of one of Wagner's conceptions, but is extremely unmusical. Some of its epithets are poorly chosen, and it seems rather strange for the "wild eye" to continue "glaring" after its owner has become "shriveled, dead." Mr. 'H. McCulloch's "Ballad" is a pretty fancy well expressed. The best of the poetical contributions is Mr. H. Bates' "Somewhere." It is imaglnative and melodious, and makes a pleasing and original poem out of what might have seemed a commonplace subject...
...lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra was the open place for the acting. There was probably no raised stage, but actors and chorus stood on the same level. The stage buildings were at first merely rough structures in which the actors could change their dress, but they were much elaborated later, and a screen was put up before them called the "Proscenion," on which was painted the scene appropriate to the play...
...Chorus of Greek men, boarding school girls, and Trojan women...