Larger ensemble works include Galina Ustvolskaya's Composition No. 2, " Dies Irae " ( 1973 ), for eight double basses, piano, and wooden cube, Jose Serebrier's George and Muriel ( 1986 ), for solo bass, double bass ensemble, and chorus, and Gerhard Samuel's What of my music!

She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.

The YPAS choir was the only chorus to perform at the January 2001 inauguration of President George W. Bush.

Tonopah's current fame may rest on the reference to it in the chorus of the song " Willin '" by Lowell George of Little Feat on the albums Little Feat, Sailin ' Shoes and Waiting for Columbus, but it is also possible that the song is actually referring to Tonopah, Arizona:

The custom of standing for the " Hallelujah " chorus originates from a belief that, at the London premiere, King George II did so, but there is no convincing evidence that the king was present, or that he attended any subsequent performance of Messiah ; the first reference to the practice of standing appears in a letter dated 1756.

* Edward Elgar, The Banner of St George: a ballad for chorus and orchestra, words by Shapcott Wensley, 1879.

On June 9, 2005, Shatner performed a reworked rendition of " My Way " at the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ultimately picked up Shatner and carried him offstage.

* King Solomon for chorus, narrator and orchestra ( 1937, for the Coronation of King George VI, BBC SO / Boult, 6 May 1937 )

The poem has appealed to twentieth century composers and has been set to music by Frederic Austin for chorus and orchestra ( first performance, Leeds Festival, 1931 ); by Timothy Mather Spelman, for soprano and baritone solo, chorus and orchestra ( 1931 ); by Virgil Thompson as " The Feast of Love ", for baritone and chamber orchestra, text translated by himself ( 1964 ); and by George Lloyd for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra ( 1980 ).

By 1939, Robbins was dancing in the chorus of such Broadway shows as Great Lady, The Straw Hat Revue, and Keep Off the Grass, which George Balanchine choreographed.

Faye's entertainment career began in vaudeville as a chorus girl ( she failed an audition for the Ziegfeld Follies when it was revealed she was too young ), before she moved to Broadway and a featured role in the 1931 edition of George White's Scandals.

Hayward hired George Abbott to direct, and Abbott and casting director Harold Prince auditioned thousands of actors for the twenty speaking roles and twenty-nine chorus members.

Founded in 1959 by George Kent, the Chorus of Westerly is a 190 voice chorus based in Westerly, Rhode Island.

He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.

PBS airs commercials for their animated series Curious George with the chorus playing in the background.

ceramics ( mostly pottery ), chorus, dance, digital imaging, drama, music seminar, newspaper ( The Curious George, formerly The George School News ), painting and drawing, photography, stagecraft, video production, orchestra, woodworking ( mostly carpentry ), and yearbook.

The background vocal harmonies at the beginning of the third chorus are provided by Lennon and George Harrison who sing the title of the French nursery rhyme " Frère Jacques " in several slow incantations.

* Reference in the chorus of the song " Willin '" by Lowell George of Little Feat on the albums Little Feat, Sailin ' Shoes and Waiting for Columbus:

The Greek chorus includes George de la Peña and Pamela Blair.

While in New York, he also started appearing in amateur theatre as a mimic and a comedian, finally making his professional debut on Broadway in 1923 as a chorus boy in a production of Little Nellie Kelly by George M. Cohan.

Ricky, who is shown behind the wheel driving across the George Washington Bridge from New York into New Jersey ( and westward ), begins singing the song's chorus and he is soon joined by Fred ( William Frawley ) and Ethel ( Vivian Vance ), and then, finally, by a badly off-key but highly spirited Lucy ( Lucille Ball ).

Rap group, L. A. M. B, have a song entitled " I'm Your Boyfriend Now, Nancy ", based on Freddy Krueger, which samples Freddy's infamous quote for the song's chorus.

The cry in the chorus of Gun Club's " Watermelon Man " is almost identical to the cry later used in the chorus of R. E. M.

She joined the chorus of a touring production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H. M. S.

A melodious song in chorus by the inmates of an orphanage ' Ammaavum neeye, appaavum neeye ...' ( sung by M. S. Rajeswari lending voice for Kamalahasan, music composed by R. Sudarsanam ) is still remembered and treasured by many all over the world.

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In 1914 she was in the chorus of a house G & S production ; for there she took on leading roles such as Josephine in H. M. S.

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** Requiem for Nietzsche for tenor, baritone, chorus, and orchestra, 1963 – 4, M. 219

* Allison M. Sniffin-choir, chorus

M. O. R is both a continuation of, and tribute to that experiment, as its chorus also lifts the melody and call-and-response vocals from Boys Keep Swinging ( Bowie and Eno both received credit for " M. O. R.

The song is referenced in the title of two counterfactual novels, S. M. Stirling's Marching Through Georgia references the title, whilst that of Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee references the chorus.

The chorus of " Hit ' Em Up " is a play on the chorus of Junior M. A. F. I. A's " Player's Anthem ", which is itself an interpolation of the melody from Yellowman's " Zunguzung ".

Other characters include wealthy Drone Freddie Rooke and writer Wally Mason, her childhood friends ; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby ; her fiancee at the beginning of the book, the M. P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill ; Jill's unpleasant relatives, Elmer and Julia Mariner ; more Drones Club members, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

The chorus adapts lines from the song " As the Rhyme Goes On " from Eric B. and Rakim's debut album Paid in Full in which Rakim raps, " I'm the R, the A, to the K, I M -- if I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

In early 1882, he appeared on tour in the chorus of Claude Duval and, later in the same year, in the chorus of H. M. S.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Behind the tragic hero stands the chorus, the crowd, or the observant courtier.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

One reason for the unique vitality of the chorus is its great variety in expression.

In many passages -- for example, the council of boyars -- each section of the chorus becomes a character group with a particular opinion.

Then there was a chorus of wild barking and baying.

It was greeted with a chorus of boos by 500 women in Trenton Monday at a forum of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.

and as this music ebbs and flows, there is an antiphonal chorus from all the atoms outside, in fact from the atoms of the entire universe.

The male chorus of the Robert Shaw Chorale sings Sea Shanties in fine style.

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

The entrance of the Stadtisches Gesangverein ( Bonn's civic chorus ) was worth all the waiting, however, as the young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

In anurans, males usually arrive at the breeding sites before females and the vocal chorus they produce may stimulate the endocrine activity of males that are not yet reproductively active and ovulation in females.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

An apocryphal story says that Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus and spoke to them as a separate character.

When Thespis stepped out from the chorus, he spoke as if he was the character ( for example, " I am Dionysus.

It also included an innovative scene that would combine a series of on stage dances with singing from both solo protagonists and the chorus.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.