Chorus the Tour Guide In Henry V, the Chorus is a single person who introduces each of the play’s five acts. Like the group of singers who comprise the chorus in Greek drama, the Chorus in Henry V functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play’s plot and themes in the Prologues. The Chorus is in effect a tour guide to Henry V, telling the audience what to expect and what to imagine. Theater-goers already know that they have to use their imagination while viewing a play. The Henry V Chorus asks those present to look beyond the limitations of the small Elizabethan stage and imagine it as grander than it actually is.
The number of actors in the chorus varied but, Sophocles set the number in his chorus to fifteen. Early in Greek drama they communicated their lines to the audience by singing and dancing. Later as in Antigoné, Sophocles uses a Choragos, a leader of the chorus and the principal commentator with on the play’s action. Further, the Choragos has direct dialogue with the characters, serving as an actor in the play. As a narrator, the chorus explains the action of the play providing commentary on and dividing the action with odes for the audience.
He later was kicked at the age of seventeen out of the choir because he’s amazing voice had matured and he could no longer sing the higher notes. He tried everything he could to make a living after this event from composing to free-lance musician. At age twenty-nine Haydn entered the Eszterhaza family (a wealthy aristocrat family). The Eszterhaza family employed Haydn to be their personal composer and write them pieces when they pleased. Haydn spent almost thirty years there.
We do have plays for the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth, and we have plays just for our entertainment suck as Romeo and Juliet. The Greek theatre history began with festivals honoring their gods. A god, Dionysus, was honored with a festival called by "City Dionysia". In Athens, during this festival, men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus. Plays were only presented at City Dionysia festival.
In the play, this was especially evident because fate led Joey and Albert back together after they had struggled through so much. The realisticity of the events in the play was conveyed with the help of the projections, puppetry, and the Song Man. Part of the set is a giant banner shaped and designed to look like a piece of paper ripped out of a journal or a letter, probably Albert or Lieutenant Nichols’. Projections were then put onto the banner. By using the projections on the stage, we could see the dates as they happened, special effects like explosions, and even part of the set.
At first when he signed on to do The King and I he was under the impression that “he only had to do (that) one ballet” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg 46) but he did end up choreographing many other dance sequences like “Getting to Know You” or “The March of the Siamese Children”. “Robbins planned the scene to delight both Anna and the audience. Some carry out their duties in exemplary fashion, which highlighted the different ones and the tiniest provide a high degree of adorable and some concern they’ll screw up” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg
A few composers who made music today possible by struggling through the aftermath of the Black Death epidemic would be; Jasquin Des Prez, (who was a big name at the time,) Pierre De La Rue, a very well proclaimed vocalist (The New York Time Company 2012, March 23. Top 8 Renaissance Composers Retrieved from http://classicalmusic.about.com.) One such composer whose name is still heard pretty often would be Johann Sebastian Bach; he is considered as one of the faces of classical music. Like all of us, he started out with baby steps, slowly learning the ways of music. Bach came from a family of musicians who brought him into the whole scene; his father was a director and had several uncles who were musicians (Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.)
He drew copious inspiration from his radio. Terrence McNally took his afflatus and constructed a model of the opera. His scenes were regarded as “more than real life.” (McNally) An extensive body of work has stemmed from Terrence McNally’s early musings. Because his parents, Dorothy Rapp McNally and Hubert Arthur were native New Yorkers, Terrence was introduced to theatre from a young age. Eventually, he enrolled in Columbia University as an English major.
He studied at the University of Leipzig studying law. During his time here another student at the university arranged to have one of his compositions performed and after this performance he found himself writing for the largest church in Leipzig. He composed literally thousands of works, including 12 complete cantata cycles for the liturgical year, 44 Passions, oratorios, funeral and wedding services, chamber music, about 40 operas, and over 600 overtures in the French style. Whereas J. S. Bach could maintain his individuality when he wrote in the French or Italian style, Telemann prided himself on taking on the characteristics of every national style, writing in what was then called the new style galant. He could write with ease and fluency in any of them and often absorbed influences of Polish and English music.
Why do you think that the Athenians of the fifth century BCE placed such emphasis on performance and display? Answer with reference to at least two of the following: the art and architecture of the Acropolis, the Epitaphios Logos, Persians and Lysistrata. What is performance and display, and why did the Athenians of the 5th Century BCE place such emphasis on it? The Oxford English Dictionary gives several meanings for performance. ‘Something performed or done; an action, act or deed...’ and ‘the action of performing a play, piece of music, ceremony, etc.. in front of an audience.’ Likewise, one of the meanings for display is, ‘an exhibition, a show.’ But was performance and display just an action or a deed, or a play or ceremony performed in front of an audience or was it a more integral part of society?