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Let the high A flat be strong ladies. Imagine a firefighter bursting through the flames with a new-born child! Strong yet beautiful, graceful yet secure. Let it radiate from your heart in the most genuine way possible. Don't lose that image.

Director

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We take a breath and then wail through the ending.

Director

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Look what a good mood I'm in; I'm giving all the pitches.

Director

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Thank you all very much for not being Machiavelli.

Director

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We can’t decide how we like our guys

Soprano #1: The funghi should be faster, if he's a fun guy. Soprano #2: You told him to take his time...

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Create shapes! Not notes! Shapes!

Director

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Even the French feel something occasionally, in between cigarettes.

Director

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If hillbillies had been Anglican, this would have been what they had written.

Director

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It's hard to hear when that thing* is in my head.

Soprano

*The “thing” was a very, very large hanging gong

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Even basses can be elegant.

Director

(Gustav Mahler, “Im Tempo des Scherzos (5th movement),” Symphony No 2)

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Men, sometimes you get spanked, and it doesn't feel good.

Director

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You guys need to make that 'but' smaller. Does this song make my but look big? Yes, it does.

Director

(Craig Carnahan, “Armistice 1918 (Everyone Sang)”)

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That's almost better.

Director

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The many who say 'Lord, Lord' - I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so sincere.

Director

(Maurice Duruflé, “Libera me,” Requiem)

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If it's under pitch, we need more of the Meryl Streep cheekbones.

Director

(Mårten Jansson, “The Choirmaster's Burial“)

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We can't count AND think.

Bass

(Michael Gordon, “Natural History”)

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The Mahler pieces are the twilight of the Romantic Era.

Director

(Gustav Mahler, “Im Tempo des Scherzos (5th movement),” Symphony No 2)