Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...During the vacations she acts in summer theatres. Last summer she was at Brattle Hall. At present she is finishing her first book, an autobiography, written in collaboration with George Frazier of Harvard. Her own troupe of entertainers travels with her. She is proud of her Girls in Blue chorus, and thinks it may contain future stars. "A girl, though," he says, "he to reveal certain talents before she can take...
...singing of this delightful music is a treat for jaded ears. The singing has that perfect fusion and sympathy of all voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales, but of a similar fresh spirit, in its own way just as delightful. The much larger choir...
...program will feature music by Bach, Bodenseatz, and Brahms. Dr. Woodworth will play several selections on the organ, in addition to leading the choral ensemble. The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah" will be the concluding number...
...Metropolitan had taken a deep breath, returned Masked Ball to its rightful Sweden. Riccardo (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling) was further identified on the program as Gustave III. But the Met's restyling stopped there. The chorus, singing in Italian, hailed the king as "son of England." The conspirators (historically Counts Horn and Warting) were still Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night...
...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...