 The climax is reached half-way, when the chorus and the orchestra perform together.Prokofiev's mastery in choral writing is demonstrated here when the female voices repeat the word 'Glory' with male voices singing the melody below.The chorus repeats the "a cappella" sections again, this time interrupted by marching orchestral chords (reminiscent of the comical chords of the drunk monks in Prokofiev's opera "Betrothal in a Monastery").