How To Use Chorus In A Sentence
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Pärt has written many a cappella works for several voices or chorus, and this new one, apart from its concision, is typical.
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The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
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I dreamt last night that I went out for a drink with biscuitware and that halfway through the night he suddenly jumped up from his seat to perform an all-singing all-dancing musical number, accompanied by a well-rehearsed large chorus all in spangly costume.
The One That's Still Making Me Chuckle
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The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
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When both the chorus and the dancers are on the steps they cannot be told apart.
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The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content.
The Soul Cages
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In the Virginia songs, on the other hand, the chorus is usually sung twice after each verse -- often the second time with some such interjaculatory expression as "I say now," "God say you must," as given in
Slave Songs of the United States.
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The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus.
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The chorus of disapproval is as diverse as the new law is excluding.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was not a good dancer, just a dancer, just a chorus girl.
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Supported by an angelic chorus and lush orchestration, Gibb extolled the virtues of "fingering foreign dirty holes," arguing that while love may be grand, he'd rather "let 'coupledom' die
Spinner
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Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
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Oh bravissimo in chorus, and he would have danced out into the middle of the room before us all, had not Fortunata whispered in his ear, telling him, I suppose, that such low buffoonery was not in keeping with his dignity.
Satyricon
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We ask you to add your voice to the growing chorus of condemnation of Australia's refugee program.
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Take in views of the Carmel Valley Hills and enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Monterey pine forests, rocky coastline and vistas of crashing surf, as a chorus of sea lions barks on the rocks.
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The Jolly Bottle, the Jolly Bottle, "cried Habershaw, pronouncing this word according to ancient usage, with the accent on the last syllable, as if spelt" bottel; "" give us the Jolly Bottle, we all know the chorus of that song.
Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
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Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus.
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I particularly noted the basses of the chorus as they sinisterly intoned the conspirators music.
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The play's chorus employs movement and primal rhythms, and performs a powerful ritual ceremony to bless Yerma's fertility, with Kevin MacDonnell as its tribal leader.
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I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
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Kleiber even goes so far as to move the last act's entr'acte right into the middle of the choruses which open that act, providing the flamenco dancers with another opportunity to strut their stuff.
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Ask the regular cyclists, and they will chorus that the city is never friendly to them.
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The moderator of the Church of Scotland has added his voice to the chorus of concern.
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As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help.
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A screaming-chorus of local popstrels accompanies one song, a marching band of local trumpeters and saxophonists another.
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A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way.
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The chorus is a real grower, complete with excellent guitar flourishes.
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Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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And the ragged offstage chorus needed work.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only complaint being heard around the Malton rehearsal rooms is that more chorus backup would have been useful.
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The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas.
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
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He held his arms out to the crowd as he bellowed the chorus and danced.
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But the chorus scenes need pepping up.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill.
100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw
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He has written for strings a berceuse and a scherzino, which have been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and certain part songs, as well as a chorus for female voices and string orchestra, have been sung in London.
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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The Leonin pieces alternate ensemble choruses of chant with organum passages which feature a solo voice floating melodic lines over the drone.
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A recent recruit from Liverpool who joined his Stafford Street office was welcomed with a few jaunty choruses from a sea shanty.
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Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies).
This week's new dance
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“Up Presido!” the voices around the cell chorused.
A Simple Case
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The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.
Archive 2007-07-01
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The catfight cried for relief after a while, though, and it came through the cartoonlike thought bubbles carried on by the chorus.
'Maximum India' features a bold take on Ibsen, reading of Indian short stories
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Martin and Jack played for almost two hours, and then they started repeating the chorus of the last song, except with free-styled lyrics, over and over and over again.
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Brahms wrote three piano rhapsodies as well as the Alto Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus, and orchestra.
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SHAPIRO: Was there ever a moment that you were crafting a tune and you thought: If only he had used the word icicle instead of snowflake, this would be so much easier, or if only this were the chorus instead of that?
Ben Folds And Nick Hornby: The Limits Of Lyrics
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Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.
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And of course, there are no big choruses or infectious hooks to get you humming along.
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Expect pretty melodies, harmonies and singalong choruses as standard.
The Sun
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Ten times ghastlier than if it had been real, the chorus wailed and ululated back and forth along immeasurable distances -- became one yell again -- and went howling down into earth's bowels as if the last of a phantom pack were left behind and yelling to be waited for.
In The Time Of Light
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The twentieth century has seen a revolution in Christian music, with the rise almost to ubiquity of new kinds of worship song and chorus.
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The Times joined a growing chorus of support.
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He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
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In 1827 Mendelssohn and Devrient assembled a small choir in the family's Berlin home to try out some of the Passion's choruses.
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The chorus of wails prepared me for the arduous battles which lay ahead.
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These pools as well as the deeper water areas of the sedge meadow provide breeding habitat for chorus frogs, spring peepers, and smallmouth salamanders.
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In the trees outside, a flock of birds was already warbling a cheerful morning chorus.
Secrets of the Soil
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The second goal kept the home fans happy, but they were still not convinced and there was no rousing chorus in support of their under-fire manager.
The Sun
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The Talmud witnesses to the careful organization of the Temple choir, and as the first Christians worshipped with the Jews, we find them from the first using the psalmodic solo with congregational refrain, and from the fourth century psalmody in alternating chorus, both possibly based on Jewish practice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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While the actors wore the cothurnus, the chorus appeared in their usual sandals.
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He is known for his oversized sunglasses and his songs' catchy choruses.
The Sun
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However, around the turn of the 15th century, the practice began of having a small chorus sing polyphonically.
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Superimposed upon this conversation, a quartet from the chorus begins to sing children's rhymes dedicated to Benjamin's son Stefan, born in April 1918.
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The scientific name is Corchorus olitorius, also called jute mallow and Egyptian spinach.
2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics
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American novelists have done their bit to swell the chorus of lamentation.
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Diary of a Bluestocking: dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom skip to main
Dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom
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The Oberon was the great local countertenor Brian Asawa, Tytania was the British soprano Sylvia McNair, and the dozen fairies were San Francisco Boys Chorus members.
Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Another "Highland Laddie" is also in the "Museum," vol. v., which I take to be Ramsay's original, as he has borrowed the chorus -- "O my bonie Highland lad," &c.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
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As he strummed the song, with its hushed chorus that dwindles into a whisper by the end, the crowd knew it was one of those special cliched moments.
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The orchestra and chorus provided the basis for success.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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The proposal was greeted with a chorus of approval.
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A group of four men and women burst into a bank with a chorus of ‘Down with Capitalism!’
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The fourth movement, based on the second verse of the chorale, is written in a trio sonata-like texture for the tenors of the chorus, oboe da caccia, and continuo.
Archive 2008-11-01
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And though the chorus failed altogether to dull the splashing of the rivulet and the babbling of the by-cut over a bed of stones, it seemed out of place in this particular spot; it aroused resentment against men who could not think of a lay more atune with the particular living, breathing objects around us.
Through Russia
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She had listened from a respectful distance, and with the humble deference born of years of bondage, to the honeyed words with which the great lady deigned to cajole a girl-slave: but when Dea Flavia had finished speaking and the chorus of admiration had died down around her, the freedwoman, with steps which she vainly tried to render firm, approached to the foot of the catasta and stood between the great lady and her own child.
"Unto Caesar"
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“Our kail is like to be cauld eneugh too,” he reflected, as the chorus of “Cauld Kail in Aberdeen” again reached his ears.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The amateur dramatic society are desperately seeking men for the chorus of its April musical Anything Goes.
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In their long dresses, they stand in chorus lines next to the archers, and put them off with mocking chants and suggestive songs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chorus here wouldn't sound out of place at all in an emo song.
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Opener ‘Mornings Eleven’ starts with a hooky indie-pop riff and an impossibly catchy chorus.
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Classes began with a 'circle-up' time where everyone often held hands standing in a big circle, sang a simple worship chorus, shared prayer requests, and prayed.
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It's a slowish record, but the only thing I know is the chorus which goes ‘Oh, look what you've done, you've made a fool of everyone’.
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Hooky choruses, instrumentation as background, and compact songwriting are trademarks of pop music, not metal.
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I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
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It is a dirty disco tune with an anthemic rock chorus.
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Caught up in the enthusiasm, we all chorused a hearty ‘Hallelujah!’
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A chorus of applause and cheers greeted this, so loud for so few that I looked around in confusion, wondering where they had hidden all the extra people.
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Audiences may laugh as a post-coital scene, set amid the flowers in moonlight, soars into a Morricone-esque musical riff with a chorus of women's voices trilling non-verbal notes, the art house equivalent of Dimitri Tiomkin telling us how to feel.
GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 5.
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See that girl barefooting along Whistling and singing, she's a-carrying on Got laughing in her eyes Dancing in her feet She's a neon diamond She can live on the street Chorus Hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party Every day Hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day Well, everybody's dancing in a ring around the sun Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun So take off your shoes, child And take off your hat Try on your wings And find out where it's at
The WELL: The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
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Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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At most periods in the history of opera, composers have valued and exploited the scope of the chorus for complementing and heightening the functions of principals and orchestra.
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The first half-hour after the dishes were washed (a task performed to music, all hands joining in the choruses of "John Peel," "Blow, ye winds of morning," etc.) was spent quietly enough, four of the party at parcheesi, the others busy over crokinole and jackstraws; but by and by there was a cry of "Boston!" and instantly boards and counters were put away on their shelf, and the decks cleared for action.
The Merryweathers
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Arms will be linked, kisses exchanged and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne belted out.
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Their bawdy exploits were commented on by Howerd during asides, complete with awful puns, in a pastiche of the traditional Greek chorus.
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The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
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Almost as radical for dance music, it's an album of verse-chorus-verse choons, played on real instruments.
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A chorus of panicked disapproval shouted id way up the stairs.
ICED
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Since then, it's been pretty quiet - a silence broken only by the glurp associated with necking rollmop herrings, followed by interminable choruses of ‘Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen, Salty Old Queen of the Sea.’
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Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
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Champagner-Oper" [ "Champagne Opera."] and in order to justify this title our amiable Intendant proposes to regale the whole theater with a few dozens of champagne in the second act, in order to spirit up the chorus.
Letters
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Study the song, how many lines in the verse and chorus, does it have a chorus, or maybe a tag, is it through-composed?
Ruth Gerson: How to Write a Song: For Writer's Block or Beginners
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The song's arrangement is nearly perfect with Branch slowly building the first verse into a bombastic chorus in which she asks the song's title repeatedly.
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He didn't pay much attention to anything but the rainy road until he heard a soft voice singing with the chorus.
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He started in on the chorus again, crouching low on his hunkers at the side of the stage, looking down on the crowd.
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Its sheer joy and wonder reside neither in tension nor resolve, neither verse nor chorus, but simply in dogged perseverance.
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After 10 minutes of frustrated rocking/pacing/sniping at each other we were jet-lagged too, and four of us sharing a room didn't exactly help with the general mood, Cam took control and fed the baby, to a chorus of "We'll never get her routine straight now" from her other two parents.
Charlie Condou: The three of us
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When they return to the front of the church, they sing this chorus.
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In her place was her understudy, Miss Lisa Fennell, a young dancer usually seen in the chorus.
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Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten.
Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
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Do you not love me enough to sing my choruses?
Christianity Today
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That frenzied chorus of hot air was used to try to whip up a hurricane designed to alter public opinion.
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For them, pop praise choruses and a chatty atmosphere have become normal.
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The late 1990s saw the introduction of cheap hard disk and minidisk multi-track recorders, many with effects such as reverb and chorus built in.
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Imagine unbridled joy when band and thousands of fans belt out the feel-good chorus in perfect unison.
The Sun
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Therefore you should always imagine, when you read the words of the chorus, that the words are spoken by persons of your own stature; while the words spoken by the protagonists proceed from the mouths of giants ... posted by Jonathan at
Archive 2009-03-01
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It is a spangly piece of tuneful easy listening, a record unashamed of a simple chorus and a driving rhythm.
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The Rat had hired three cooks, five waitresses and fifteen chorus girls for the occasion.
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‘Nope,’ you replied, grabbing the laptop's touch pad and exiting out of your email, causing a chorus of ‘Hey’ from your friends.
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The title track is a vastly underrated song with some catchy chord changes and choruses to keep the listener interested.
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I opened the window and helloed to the cattle, and they answered, in chorus, and raised their heads, jaws working, to look for me.
The Dirty Life
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New voices are needed to join the chorus for the annual festival in October.
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Long video package: They had a highlight reel music video with the "Cross the Line" mantra repeated over and over in the chorus while clips of every highspot imaginable playing.
PWTorch.com
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Bill saw the tank thundering towards his outfit and heard his own voice join a chorus of warning cries as its guns began firing.
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At its heart, her music is folky rock emboldened by anthemic choruses.
The Sun
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A chorus of high-pitched wolf howls pierces the stillness of a frigid January morning.
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Mom!" the kids cried, in chorus.
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Why is it condemnable to craft songs with harmonies and choruses so finely constructed they immediately bring to mind some of modern rock's best and brightest talents?
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I was rather annoyed to realise that the London To Brighton Bike Ride this year clashes with one of the big staging rehearsals for the Chorus' Summer Show.
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It's a must for the performance of the orchestra and splendid chorus alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Dresden State Orchestra turns in their usual fine playing here and the Saxon State Opera Chorus sings splendidly, as well.
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His heavily reverbed soft croon is accompanied by a simple acoustic guitar and bongo arrangement with a slide guitar punctuating the choruses.
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The words of a haka are either sung by all the performers, or, in some cases, the fugleman leads off for a line or two and the others join in as a kind of chorus, as we have shown.
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It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
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Though he has had his troubles with the media, that desire always to look forward is an almost endearing trait in him, one that brought a sincere chorus of ‘good luck on Tuesday’ from the pressmen present.
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The cock crows and the dawn chorus begins.
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Expect pretty melodies, harmonies and singalong choruses as standard.
The Sun
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Huge choruses, great harmonies and heads-down rock 'n' roll permeate this earworm-infested stormer.
The Sun
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On the soundtrack, disembodied voices form a chorus of simmering urban resentment, describing life on the streets and the widening gulf between rich and poor.
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The arrival of the Mercy girls greatly enhanced the shows and since 1970, all the female roles, principals and chorus, have been taken by students from Mercy, Tuam.
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The chorus was well drilled and performed well under severe space restrictions - at various times there were 30-plus principals and chorus on stage.
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We aren't surprised that Handel employs, for this grand theme, all the resources of classical Heroic Opera, involving recitative, arioso, aria, chorus, and ceremonial dance.
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After a few rousing choruses of ‘O Holy Night’ there'd be a rustling at the back of the room and the first whiffs of smoke filtered forward.
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The dawn chorus is getting louder and more insistent.
Times, Sunday Times
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In particular, the latter is a blues-rock tear-jerker with a gentle, memorable chorus.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Hello," they shouted in chorus.
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There's a few absent smiles and drumming of fingers on shopping trolleys, we're all gearing up for the big chorus.
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An increasing chorus of social criticism in recent years has called attention to men's personal isolation.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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Losing All Control is the only hint of a darker edge, but even then they can't resist a catchy chorus.
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They were hatcheck and cigarette girls, dancers in chorus lines, singers with small bands and combos, and glamorous frequenters of night spots.
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The chorus of the piece - a reprise of Allien's introduction replete with the now introduced elements is a exultant mélange of avant-pop songwriting.
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Before she was a fabulous comedy chameleon, Tracey Ullman was a teen dancer touring with a gaggle of chorus boys.
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In the musical numbers soloists and chorus sang with gusto.
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The chorus is so desperate and unhinged it should replace its namesake across the country; a frightened alarum to all that there's trouble around and it's far closer than you think.
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The movie's theme song, which booms over the opening credits, is Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," whose chorus laments "It ain't me …" with the blare of defiance, not resignation.
The End of the World as We Know It
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The two-hour work demands almost 500 performers, including five sopranos, eight other soloists, an augmented orchestra and massed choruses (four of them in this new recording).
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Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events.
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An anthemic song with a big chorus, and an infectious spring in its step, the number demonstrated Rooster's readiness to have fun with a big riff.
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Imagine unbridled joy when band and thousands of fans belt out the feel-good chorus in perfect unison.
The Sun
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Ten minutes later, a male colleague suggests a remarkably similar idea and everyone jumps on board with a hearty chorus of "atta boy" and "great idea!
BJ Gallagher: Wal-Mart: What Do Women Want?
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Since the 1970s the woods have been losing their spring chorus of birdsong.
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Labour's manifesto was launched not by the Prime Minister alone but by a carefully choreographed phalanx of six ministers, with the remainder of the Cabinet arrayed behind them as a silent chorus.
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There was a fine performance by the boys' choir, Boni Pueri, whose five part final chorus is characterised by richly scored orchestral music combined with traditional fugal writing.
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The whole orchestra and the two - hundred-man-strong chorus would come thundering after me -- the _orchestra on the right key_ and _the chorus following in my footsteps_.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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Many of the projects, it turns out, have actually been built, and they've proved colossal duds, leading a growing chorus of critics to question the studies' methods.
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On Monday, another prominent GOP leader joined the chorus of the sober-minded.
Barbour, Cornyn, Cantor Lower Expectations For GOP Congress
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Hurrah!" shouted Seth Allport, his ringing voice making itself heard above the sound of the rushing water and the echoing chorus of the men's cheers; but, an instant after, his exclamation of delight was changed to one of dismay, as a flight of arrows and the ping of rifle bullets whistled around the party, while the dread war-whoop of their Indian assailants burst forth in all its shrill discordancy.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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The libretto gives plenty of scope for choruses, trios, duets and solos.
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Oh! what a bitter discordancy grated upon my ears that day when the tragic chorus was directed by this same
Peace
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North Wiltshire MP James Gray has added his voice to the growing chorus of dismay over plans to build a tunnel under the M4 from Swindon to Wootton Bassett.
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So when a country with no tradition of musicals found itself needing chorus lines and showstoppers, Lambe was one of a new breed of stage performers capable of answering its call.
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He joined the Army chorus, frequently performing at the White House, and his name began appearing in The Post right around the same time that the other Dan Snyder entered the local lexicon.
Being the other Dan Snyder
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So many principals and chorus members shone that it's impossible to mention everyone: for me the best were Sam Parry, Adriana Gentile, Daniela Laughlin and Vahan Salorian.
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Bill sang the verses and everyone joined in the chorus.
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When Creon kidnaps Antigone, the Chorus prays that Athene will aid King Theseus in bringing her back safely.
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Anne wasn't familiar with the song, but by the third time the chorus was repeated, she was able to join in.
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They made 42nd Street - the story of a girl plucked from the chorus to the lead role in a Broadway musical - more than just a fluffy fairy tale.
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Don't let the evil grrrl chorus push you around.
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Their voices blend marvellously as they sing in chorus.
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-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while
Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
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Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus:
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
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At times, the various choruses were costumed in one large swath of cloth.
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The choir will be performing the Hallelujah Chorus at the concert.
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Both feature tender duets for soprano and baritone, virtuoso writing for orchestra and chorus, and open by depicting the void before life itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away.
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At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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While pretty, the choral writing is particularly undynamic making the Pärt later on the program sound like a Verdi chorus.
Lift and Separate
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Big sing-a-long choruses and catchy lyrics drive this effort.
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The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me.
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There is no rousing chorus, and the performance will last up to three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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With exceptional skill, in this and many other numbers, Calloway managed to play both sides of the street: Using the jive talk popular among African Americans, especially those in the big cities, he was able to communicate on a hip, insider level while delighting non-initiates (most of whom probably were white) with the joyfulness and apparent nonsense of his lyrics as well as giving them the pleasure of participating in call-and-response scat choruses.
Review of "Hi-De-Ho," Alyn Shipton's biography of Cab Calloway
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She can write an expansive melody that's well structured but isn't straitjacketed by chorus and verse.
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Thank God for the quick-witted chorus member that ad-libbed the line ‘that sir, is this thing falling on top of us’ - it allowed the audience to laugh as the actors collected themselves.
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This is not an unloved character heading off into the darkness to a chorus of 'good riddance '.
Times, Sunday Times
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American universities inherited a choral tradition from England where, centuries ago, student choruses gathered to sing songs with different vocal parts known as glees.
Yale Glee Club Hits a High Note
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DFL candidate for governor Mark Dayton did not join the pronuclear chorus, but his running mate, state Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon, authored legislation to lift the ban that almost passed last session.
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This British musical certainly holds its own against Hollywood rivals of the same era, although the chorus lines tend to be slightly wobbly.
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It's got representatives from each part of the company rapping about their roles (do this do that we never get hairy we do it for you because we're your secretary), with an interstitial chorus singing "Shuffle fun shuffle shuffle fun shuffle fun fun shuffle fun fun shuffle just plane fun" on my elementary schools 'auditorium stage while employees run around in plush airplane costumes.
Video: Shuffle Fun Shuffle Shuffle Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Just Plane Fun! - The Consumerist
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The chorus excels itself, as New Yorkers, suburbanites, cowboys and gods, while blending fluently with the eight professional dancers in William Tuckett's zippy choreography.
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In the air the sideband voices of amateur radio operators is a fluttering electronic chorus.
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