Sentence examples for chorus playing from inspiring English sources

A young tenor player began to play "out" from the first chorus, playing sounds that had no relationship to the harmonic progression or rhythmic setting.

Even the torso that does exist is curious, and it has been described as more akin to an oratorio than an opera, with the chorus playing a vital role in the drama.

The chorus plays a token role.

As the chorus played no part in the Roman theatre, the orchestra or dancing space became part of the auditorium.

The chorus plays a larger role in this work than in any of Handel's 41 Italian operas.

Here is good place for the uninitiated to make his acquaintance: a wealth of lively and colorful instrumental movements (and one chorus), played with irresistible drive and incisiveness.

The New Yorker, February 4 , 1928P. 9 At a photoplay on the life of Handel, a phonograph which should have played the "Hallelujah Chorus," played "Horses".

"[Wigglesworth's] mastery of the score was total, and his leadership clearly inspiring from the way the orchestra and chorus played and sang.

The chorus plays a major role in this elegant and complex opera, which tells the story of Iphigénie, the abandoned daughter of King Agamemnon.

The canned ecstasy of the Hallelujah Chorus plays on the PA system and sunbeams pierce its forest of columns with such dazzle and precision that, you think, they must be digital.

When the chorus plays for the second time, Gaga sings in a room of mirrors, with her head displayed in a glass box among oddly distorted mannequin heads.