Though the arias may be disappointing, the chorus movements (which happen to be especially prominent in these three cantatas) are a thrilling embodiment -- perhaps the best to date -- of the one-per-part ideal.
Russell's solo songs have a less conventional instrumentation than his disco records but, true to his contrarian tendencies, they are generally catchier and shorter, sometimes flirting with traditional verse-chorus movement.
We studied the chorus, the movements of the bass line and the story telling.
They had been inspired by a couple of recent concerts of choruses and movements by Handel and Haydn pieces that were well known in Europe but not in the fledgling United States and vowed to make these two composers' works the basis of their repertoire.
Early arrival at the breeding site, prolonged breeding with continuous sexual activity throughout the season, ownership of a centrally located territory within the chorus, and successful movement between the dynamically changing choruses are all common ways for males to maintain dominant, or territorial, status within the chorus.
Ms. Bogart, meanwhile, works with the men's chorus, cuing their movements in numbers: "Try to get as close to Position 7 as you can".
The ballet's interest lies less in its allegorical duel between a generic hero and a gnomic Fate figure than in the movement choruses that Massine borrowed from German modern dance in the 1930's.
The cantata consists of eight movements: Chorus: Recitative (tenor): Chorale: Aria (bass): Recitative (alto): Chorale: Aria (tenor): !
Bach reworked the first section of the first chorus to form the movement of the in his Mass in B minor, the central movement of that work, three decades later.
Beethoven's introduction of a chorus in the final movement — singing Schiller's Ode to Joy — gives the piece the searingly optimistic finale to end all finales.
In the haunting opening movement, the chorus intones a list of names from a century-old Pennsylvania Mining Accident index, accompanied by mournful snarls from the All-Stars.
