(The chorus speaks of "boats against the current").
Former members of the chorus speak of Ms. Doria with a mix of fondness and a residue of fear.
Somehow, instead of having an announcer read the commercials, he got the idea of having a chorus speak the commercials in this rhythmic speech.
And the orchestra, as fine as the chorus, "spoke" the words, too, investing every line with meaning: in those pleas for peace, a quality of intense yearning.
In the early tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the chorus speaks in "excellent conceited" sonnets, in what was one of the most popular and easily recognized lyric forms of the period.
Separately, the performers' union Equity, which represents every member of the chorus, spoke of its concern at the suggested cuts in headcount or a scaling back of the programme.
"GURRELIEDER" James Levine and the Met Orchestra and Chorus speak the various idioms of the Second Viennese School like a native tongue, and Schoenberg's huge creation, given full scope under tight discipline, may overwhelm the listener here as never before.
Mr Assad, a political novice who succeeded his feared but respected father on his death in 2000, looked ever weaker, as promised reforms failed to materialise, defectors deserted the ruling Baath party and a rising opposition chorus spoke of its impending overthrow.The turnaround is not quite complete.
The necessity for "symbolic performance," which is indirectly defended in these early plays by showing a too-realistic opposite, is explained and directly apologized for in Henry V, written about 1599, where a Chorus speaks for the "bending author" and his actors who "force a play" on the "unworthy scaffold," the stage of the Globe's "wooden O".
When the Chorus speaks of suffering and pain, it looks as if they're referring to current events: the queen Clytemnestra's plot to murder her husband, Agamemnon, in revenge for his decision to sacrifice their virgin daughter Iphigenia to win from the gods favorable winds for his fleet to sail to Troy.
Speaking of voices, and "getting up to be heard" -- here we have sixty-in-chorus, speaking out against injustice and repression throughout the world.
