A live gospel chorus has pumped the caustic Sinatra hit "That's Life" into a euphoric pop hymn.
Sometimes the shifts happen seamlessly, other times the audience — who stands within the set, acting as a live Greek chorus — takes part in the change, entering Travieso's creative process and all the vulnerability that comes along with it.
In person, Emily was like a living Greek chorus, if that chorus was comprised of people who did nothing but make fake fart sounds, play tin whistles, and set off small homemade bombs.
NEWARK "The Legend of Zelda," a multimedia presentation of a live symphonic concert, chorus and cinematic video, presented by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
"Is this the way to live?" demands the chorus, which features the rattle'n'holler of San Francisco's Real Vocal String Quartet (they sing as well as fiddle).
The event begins at 7 30 tonight with Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1926), accompanied by a new score by Kevin Hayes and performed in its premiere by a live orchestra and chorus.
Robert Cole conducted a reduced, 45-musician orchestra in a gracious account of the score, and there was a live children's chorus, the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale, for the end of Act I.
Visions of Future Past APRIL 24 -- Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," with a new score performed by a live orchestra and chorus, will be screened at the opening night gala of the Avignon/New York Film Festival.
The audience of 14 are almost outnumbered by the live performers – seven chorus members, two musicians (Coates and organist James McVinnie) and an actress, while the recorded voices of soloists including Clayton and Carlyle are relayed through portable speakers carried by the chorus.
