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Singers are selected for specific programs for which they have indicated interest. Recently, the ensemble sang the closing subscription concerts with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic. In addition, the Chorus enjoys participating in the Houston Symphony’s popular programming under the batons of conductors such as Steven Reineke and Michael Krajewski. Over the years, members of this historic ensemble have learned and performed the world’s great choral-orchestral masterworks under the batons of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, Robert Shaw, and Helmut Rilling, among many others. The Houston Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Betsy Cook Weber since 2014, is the official choral unit of the Houston Symphony and consists of highly skilled and talented volunteer singers. Photo by Sam Shaw, mid 1940s.We are the official choral unit of the Houston Symphony Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1950.ĭancers/chorus girls, Rita Powers, Patty Hurdy, Louisa Lewis and Joan Wynn. Two showgirls of Mike Todd's revue called " Michael Todd's Peep Show", running at the Winter Garden Theatre, from Jto February 24, 1951, for a total of 278 performances.
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Photo by Slim Aarons, November 1948.Ī chorus girl in full costume at the Paris Lido, Paris, France, 1964. Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.Ĭhorus girls in dressing room backstage at La Scala opera house in Milan. The Kessler twins backstage at the Lido, Paris, 1959. Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images. Photo by Loomis Dean, Las Vegas, 1955.ĭancing twins, Alice and Ellen Kessler, backstage at the Lido, Paris, 1959. Photo by Nina Leen, August 1952.Ī prop slot machine backstage at the Royal Nevada Hotel and Casino. Photo by Peter Stackpole, New York City, 1937.Ĭhorus girl of the Bluebell Girls checking her costume in the dressing room of the Stardust hotel & casino before a performance, Las Vegas. Photo by Eileen Darby/ Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.Ĭhorus girl Hope Chandler, 16, in dressing room backstage at the Paradise cabaret restaurant. (L-R) Chorus girls Diane Van Alst, Mara Williams & Mary Mullens in the dressing room backstage at the Copacabana nightclub. Here are the backstage pictures showing the life of chorus girls in dress room in the 1940s and 1950s. Many a famous female icon started out as a backup dancing chorus girls, either in film or on stage in vaudeville, including Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Josephine Baker, Joan Crawford, and many more. Whatever, their origins, one asks how you define, a “chorus girl”?įor the purposes of vintage vernacular jazz dance, when we hear the term “chorus girl”, we often associate it with such imagery of the Ziegfeld Follies, and later the Goldwyn Girls.
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Some even date them back to any ladies who acted as backup actors/dancers on stage during the great opera performances of the Baroque era. It may have been traced back to the Ballet Russes, or perhaps it goes back further to the late 1800s days of the cancan dancers. According to literature, it is hard to exactly define the starting point of the common “chorus girl” dancer.