Sentence examples for chorus setting from inspiring English sources

It's just four syncopated guitar chords, a churchy organ, a beat and a backup chorus setting up Ms. Franklin's snakes-and-ladders vocal, and her melismas and scat singing convey exuberance rather than the "Star Search"/"American Idol" generation's forced acrobatics.

The duo act like kind of Greek chorus, setting the scene in a playful exchange for what we can expect to see on the island of Plastic Beach, as well as the record's eco-friendly politics.

The duo act like kind of Greek chorus, setting the scene in a playful exchange for what we can expect to see on the island of Plastic Beach, as well as the record's eco-friendly politics. .

Before Maradona can say much more the chorus sets up again.

The choir, which functioned rather like a Greek chorus, set up a questioning dynamic between the group and the individual.

U-S-A!" He was soon joined by what appeared to be almost everyone in the section, a chorus set against the dimming sky.

In 1912, Stravinsky completed the seldom programmed "Zvezdoliki" ("King of the Stars"), a delicately orchestrated, transparent work for instrumental ensemble and male chorus, set to a mystic text by the Symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont.

Still, hardly a word of the lyrics came through clearly during the opening chorus, set on a dock on the Mississippi during the 1880s, as black stevedores loading bales of cotton sing of their plight.

Mr. John, bedecked with $3 million in baubles from Harry Winston and backed by a male chorus, set the audience roaring as he sang "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend".

Sidra Bell's "Refrain for a Broken Chorus," set to a new jazz score by her father, Dennis Bell, offered a basic-Forsythe-meets-Fosse movement style vaguely reminiscent of Dwight Rhoden's work (what might be called the non sequitur school of choreography).

Forbidden to perform legitimate drama, they presented their plays in pantomime, interpreting the action with lyrics and choruses set to popular tunes.