Dominating the entire back wall is a colossal, Gothic choir screen carved from marble and adorned with ornate statues of saints, black and gold and imposing, holy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Suesetta stops in the middle of the choir stand—where the altos usually are—holding a hymnal in her arms. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of someday becoming the pastor of the largest Baptist church in California, with a congregation of a thousand and a four-hundred-strong choir behind him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had an entire floor dedicated to music, an award-winning band, and a choir. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She's always strict with me at choir rehearsal, without a trace of the affection she and I share at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trey slowly lifts a card, going, “Ahhhhhh,” like a heavenly choir, then, “Bam! Draw two, boo.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon she was singing well enough to be entrusted with solos when the junior choir performed at the church’s main Sunday service. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He praised our singing, saying that it was the only singing that matched the choirs in his native Wales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Papa and I came to Würzburg, I joined the choir for the children of the symphony musicians. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I turned off Gran’s church choir CD and searched the kitchen for a docking station. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Following a concert, introduce new songs slowly after reviewing the choir’s favorite song from the concert. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The choir filed into their two special rows behind the pulpit, gold robes rustling reverently against the dark wood pews. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

From the loudspeaker, a children’s choir sings, We hope only to work, to work and work and work, to go to glorious work for the country. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I used to do choir, so I’ve spent some time here. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, I’d played all over the building—even up in the balcony and in the choir loft. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We come here every Saturday, after choir practice.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This time when I walked into Gardner’s Pharmacy, the ringing bell on the door sounded like a choir of angels singing “Hallelujah.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d sing along with the soulful a cappella choir about going down to the river to pray and wearing the golden crown and the good Lord showing us the way and whatnot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

From the first bell the next day, I start counting how long until choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The minister ordered the choir to sing, Come to Jesus, come to Jesus right now. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The elder’s wife sang in the choir and I fell in love with her as only a twelve-year-old can worship a distant and unattainable woman. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These Thursdays are outside of time, a choir in clouds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The choir begins “Let It Snow,” and I concentrate on Jax’s big O mouth with smiling edges instead of the many voices singing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After a moment of hesitation, Mr. Dantzler, who had been elected the company-church deacon for the year, rose and asked for everybody to wait until the choir filed outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

While I was still on my first cup of tea, the young lady I had been watching and listening to in the choir came into the tearoom. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

About the time their tea was brought, the choir member caught me staring over at her party. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not but half full since it’s only a quarter to seven and the choir doesn’t start singing until seven thirty. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the choir got up to sing, Mrs. Dantzler stepped out for a solo. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward the choir director said, “Honey, I think you should talk.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She explains that she teaches trombone, Ms. Min flute, Mr. Tingle trumpet, and Mrs. Spitz directs the choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I arrived early to prepare for singing Alleluia with the other girls, and there he was waiting for me by the choir stairs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader walked up to me as I sat on the steps of the gazebo, finishing corn dog number two and gazing over at the Baptist church choir performing on the stage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The choir, noticeably less of a group, had discarded their cloaks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She is wearing what I guess is a judge's robe, but it looks like a choir outfit. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mummy always dutifully showed up at any school-sanctioned, required events like plays or choir recitals. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And there was a choir of perfect boys in perfect white robes with perfect combed hair singing their perfect notes like everything was perfect. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The choir was summoned and sang a modern arrangement of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with new words pertaining to graduates seeking their place in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our choir began singing at churches around the Northeast. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If I only had to listen to him instead of fifteen voices, maybe choir would be okay. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Through the marble choir screen at the back of the room is a second, deeper chamber, this one filled with church relics. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were all upbeat, and, luckily, it was one of the few times a funeral actually had a good choir. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I did have one escape from this constant internal struggle: a church choir that my dad started, like the one he had formed in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was followed by boys swinging balls of fuming incense and a children’s choir. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy is coming to pick me up for choir rehearsal. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The procedure was repeated until eventually the entire choir was vaulted. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was still lovely, his skin so smooth and of a rich olive color, his hands long and slender like those of angels in illustrations, holding their choir books. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

More people signed up for choir than I expected. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She would’ve been pretty, but her hair was tied back in a tight bun and she wore too much makeup, so she kind of reminded me of my third- grade choir teacher. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“How do you think she knows how to lead a choir?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Jack's in charge of the choir. They can be-what do you want them to be?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The audience was applauding the choir, which had just finished. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go to choir anymore,” I say when Mr. Fabian realizes I am still in room twelve. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a whole building dedicated to the arts, with special rooms for the choir to sing and bands to play, and other rooms that had been outfitted for photography and pottery. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At least three times a week, I looked forward to Mother Lois taking me to Bethel AME for choir practice, speeches by people from out of town who talked about God, and Bible study. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

While humming one of her choir songs, Gran pulled the car out of the church parking lot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She is short, and her white hair flies like her hands on the piano keys as she tells us about the four parts of a choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I will fix my choir problem by myself. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I just keep looking straight ahead at the choir, start clapping my hands. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We goin back to the factory,” the spokesman for the choir, the intense lady, said angrily to Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We think it’s a better fit than choir.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We stood in front of our seats, as assigned, and on a signal from the choir director, we sat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lullaby my mother had sung to me when I was a child, but it sounded like it was being sung by a choir. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah and I stared at the choir behind him, our faces blank, pretending not to see. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The warriors said nothing and began to follow the choir and the two standard-bearers out of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marian’s aunt Mary sang in the senior choir. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry you weren’t there to hear the lame choir drag out, song after song. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His family belonged to a Baptist church, and he sang in its choir and believed in the doctrines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Reverend Tweed and I are in agreement that it is time for a choir for the Vida church. He has asked me to direct.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I would lie to her that I was late because I had to stay behind for choir rehearsals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Union Baptist Church, where her family worshiped, she had been an enthusiastic member of the junior choir ever since her sixth birthday. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The old choir members are having a hard time remembering what song to sing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We parade behind her to a row reserved for us in the audience, and the choir heads straight to the risers to sing first. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I breathe a sigh of relief and rise up to get ready for choir practice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

TJ always asked Mrs. Bronson, the choir director, to let him sing solos even though his voice was all over the place. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nor could they ignore the old ladies’ practical advice to improve their English through Bible study class on Wednesday nights and, later, through choir practice on Saturday mornings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour we were their choir, our weak, raspy voices serenading them as they laughed and talked and ate—and the food they ate! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s choir is in whatever white shirts, black pants, and black shoes everybody could find. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Be still,” said the priest to the children’s choir. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As director of the junior choir, I’m listening to all the new students this week to assess their talent.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The instant the hymn ended, the choir coach began to give her lengthy opinion of people who can’t keep their feet still and their lips sealed tight during the minister’s sermon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I made my way haltingly past the members of the choir with their black robes flapping in the morning breeze, the doctor’s words reverberating around me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remained standing for a brief minute before the choir director and the principal signaled to us, rather desperately I thought, to take our seats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made friends easily, in part because Princesse had gone to the school, but also because people recognized me from choir performances we had held there over the years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All I got is church choir rehearsal today and Sunday service tomorrow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But she signed up for it herself and walked to choir practice on her own. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And then the woman leading the song sped up, with the choir right behind her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how I am going to tell them about choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The way Lev's eyes twinkle reminds me of Papa's smiling eyes, Maria's raspy laugh, the harmonies of choir children. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Not in white, with bridesmaids, and bells and choir boys? What about your relations, and all your friends?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the block, the Baptist choir was rehearsing Christmas carols, their rich voices spilling out into the neighborhood from the open church door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had a choir behind me and TJ at my side. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One of the girls who volunteered was in the concert choir, but she was not in Ms. G’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Our choir will only have two parts, soprano and alto.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The singing was so strong, you’d have sworn a church choir had assembled in the living room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The school had an internationally famous music program and student choir. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Wearily obedient, the choir huddled into line and stood there swaying in the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So wonderful to have you in choir,” she says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation; before him small children squatted in the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kids who sing in the choir, learn to play the violin, and take gymnastics or ballet or swimming lessons after school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As the pastor leaves the pulpit and the choir stands, Justyce looks around the packed interior of the church. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He would listen blissfully for a while and then join, turning her single voice into the sound of a choir. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our choir group preached forgiveness, but I did not forgive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A good falsetto produces a clear, clean “boy’s choir” type of sound, and is where children should try to sing in order to maintain a healthy voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The choir lurched and stumbled somewhere near the proper melody. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We even sat next to each other in choir for a year. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Every hand outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The piers of the choir at Chutreaux were to be one hundred and sixty feet high and six to eight feet thick. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Reverend Lanier sat down, hiding behind the pulpit, but the choir stood up and sang “Faith of Our Fathers” with a special enthusiasm. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Will the two ladies with the banner please take their positions over there by the door? Now the choir please form behind them and then the battalion.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skimmed through the obituary as the choir sang. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No matter what I was doing, I always stopped when she stood in front of the choir and either raised her hands to direct them or stood at the piano and started to sing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She continued to sing with the junior choir as well, with the hundred-voice People’s Chorus, and at local church and social events. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Then and there I determined to get Perilee in that choir. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come let us adore Him, Oh, come let us adore Him”: a cathedral choir, an exalted music that moved Perry to tears—which refused to stop, even after the music did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir had been rehearsing for weeks, but on the day of the feast the soprano fell ill with bronchitis. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My sister Princesse—who had been away at the choir concert on the night of the attack—reunited with them in the hospital. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I dream about being in the church choir. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir started with an old hymn—“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's the most pristine place I've been to in years—since the children's choir sang for the Dutch queen in that marble and gold-leafed hall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was Maurice, next in size among the choir boys to Jack, but broad and grinning all the time. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The lady with the spiritual bent blew a pitchpipe and the choir members began singing lustily, “Oh, Jesus, walk by my side, / Then I always, always be satisfied.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of this he told his wife, and told how later he heard the choir of maddening Seirenes, coasted the Wandering Rocks, Kharybdis’ pool and the fiend Skylla who takes toll of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronze weapons are an orchestra of destruction and bloodshed, and the screams of the warriors are her choir. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The play is put on in the school auditorium, where the school assemblies are, and the choir practice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a hand on my shoulder as I'm leaving the choir room. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The choir behind him begins to hum “Talking to Jesus” and we all stand up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Alexander Robinson, the man who led the choir, recognized the youngster’s musical gifts and her eagerness to learn and to perform. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The band begins an upbeat song, and the choir marches down the aisles, swaying their arms and clapping to the beat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the sun beginning to decline behind the Olympic flame, a choir of thousands dressed in white rose en masse and began to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Though I only practice with the children's choir once a month now, Maria still speaks enthusiastically of my debut, which is to be at the midsummer festival. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Agnes took her vows at Pentecost, and seemed a veritable angel as she sang in the choir. But she deceived us. By the Feast of All Saints, she was heavy with child.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh...It sounded like the choir at Bennie’s church—both beautiful and haunting. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He joined the children’s choir to be close to music that sounded like the blues his grandfather played. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“This is just some guy. Some criminal choir boy Onion guy. It isn’t Al Capone.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Celaena yawned, but nodded with the rest of the congregation as the choir gave their blessings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before the divorce, she went to church along with Candice and her dad, but she didn’t sing in the choir or volunteer for the usher board, unlike her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My angel costume is fitted like a large choir robe, so I slip that on in the living room over my clothes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A little choir of voices in my head was singing, “Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir had swiveled around in unison and were gaping openmouthed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a certain point in the service I would play the organ before the choir began to sing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He left her sitting in the small vestibule while he finished up with the delivery Dedd could hear going on in the adjoining choir room. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The choir teacher bangs out some French-sounding song on the piano, and Simon steps forward, hand on his heart. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When a good choir sings in harmony without instruments, they will tune without even thinking about it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the opposite end of the building a five-thousand-voice choir sang Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus to the accompaniment of five hundred musicians. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, hello, stranger. So nice to be in your royal presence. You know you ditched choir rehearsal Saturday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After the service, I do my regular job collecting the hymnals from the choir rows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Grandma grabbed my arm again and dragged me down the aisle faster than ever before toward the front of the church where the pulpit and choir stood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m the golden goose. She’d still be singing in her church choir if it weren’t for me. I made her who she is, and I can find someone else just as easily.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A choir of priestesses stepped off the platform. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s no regular school but choir rehearsals in preparation for the competition next week.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel took him to hear a choir sing the Lessons of Darkness in the Temple of Rugwith. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When, in Messiah’s famous ‘Hallelujah’ chorus, the choir sing '. . . and He shall reign for ever and ever’, two kings are being celebrated: one in heaven, the other at St James’s Palace. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I close the door on the bellowing choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess. My mom said she wanted to take us skating as an early birthday present for you. We can go after choir practice.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ruth joined the choir, and then the women’s Bible study. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Standing a little apart from the choir, Ivy sang the dark sweetness that Pauline could not name; she sang the death-defying death that Pauline yearned for; she sang of the Stranger who knew . The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the choir were constructed in three stages. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“At Aunt Ivy’s church, I was asked to leave the children’s choir because of my caterwauling.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They kept calling out the same words over and over, sounding like the choir on Sunday but without no real feeling of happiness in the words. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There are risers pushed to the side of the stage left over from a choir concert. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Besides the time when the choir sings, Sunday school is my favorite part about church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We hop off and speed-walk up seven blocks to make it to choir practice on time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He leapt from the beast’s back, strolled coolly down the aisle between the many rows of seats meant for student assemblies and choir concerts. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My dad’s going to be their middle school music teacher and choir director.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Behind it, there’s an elaborate iron choir screen standing broad and gorgeous on the landing above. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The stage has risers for the choir and chairs for us to sit in when it’s our turn to play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A high-backed choir bench in the center of the room towered above them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Around the room, the kids from the jazz ensemble and choir stood up with varying degrees of willingness and shyness. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then the choir sang, and the preacher gave a rousing sermon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The choir was already lined up and singing sinners down to the water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis was a deacon and he sang in the church choir. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deo gratis,” the choir sang back and the people stood to leave. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl from a working-class family—Katie Brindle — sang in a choir after school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At the climax of its monumental opening chorus, with two adult choirs and a double-sized orchestra already in full sway, Bach introduces a new, majestically slower tune on top of the entire structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He scratched his chin, his eyes lifted to the plain wooden cross nailed to the wall by the choir box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The choir sings upbeat songs, and almost everyone claps and praises Jesus. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She hummed along with one of her church choir songs softly playing on an old boom box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Finally he put one on, an Irish church choir singing “O Come All Ye Faithful.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not going to be part of Ralph's lot-" He looked along the right-hand logs, numbering the hunters that had been a choir. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her mother took her to audition for the junior choir. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I already told Ms. Parker about choir,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They talked all of a sudden and all together like a choir and the top parts of their bodies moved on the rhythm of it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Their eyes closed, the choir members were chanting compulsively, lost in their melody. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been a church musician most of her life and had worked with dozens of children’s choirs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By 1280 the choir was ready for the construction of the vaulted ceiling and the foundation of the transept was begun. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They sing second soprano in the choir, and although their voices are clear and steady, they are never picked to solo. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we enter the choir room, Mrs. Spitz plays heavy chords on the piano. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

By now she was a member of the senior choir at Union Baptist Church, which gave her the chance to learn more difficult and varied music. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

These were my boosters, my believers, my own personal gospel choir, singing, Yes, kid, you got this! all the way through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The choir was led by a friend of Mother’s who had a beautiful voice. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a choir singing Igbo worship songs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Sister Hawkins jumped up, called the choir forward, and led them quickly into the old spiritual, “Go Down, Moses.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It came with singing in the AME choir and taking Sunday school attendance. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In a calmer moment, Miss Brooks, I am sure you would agree that Perilee Mueller would not be an appropriate addition to our choir.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As if released from class, the choir boys stood up, chattered, piled their black cloaks on the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The choir fills in the stands and the band starts an upbeat song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Kind of like you...convict choir boy from the root vegetable family.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know you can get a degree in music? If you had one, you could give lessons, you could direct the church choir. Even Dad won’t argue with that, not much anyway.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the church Cluny sat up in the choir loft, the image of barbaric authority. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a choir in bright purple robes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl took her place up front with the choir, and the girls picked up their tambourines and sat in metal folding chairs behind her. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped it with the back of his hand and they both chimed in unison, like a Sunday choir. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sing in the children’s choir because Big Ma makes sure we motherless girls enjoy all the pitying looks the church can spare, whether we want them or not. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bell rang again, much louder than before, and he heard a choir singing, as if the door to a chapel or an oratory had opened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We watched in awe as Helen stood her ground, repeated her resolve not to play for the church choir, and survived a beating with the belt by Mommy without a whimper. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of my aunts sang in church choirs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the choir of two-fisted tenors on the record were “proud to bear the title” Colonel Meecham entered the room slapping the swagger stick in a steady, tautological rhythm that seemed ominous, even predatory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear the sounds of trumpets and saxophones and other instruments echoing through the hallways, and the choir doing warm-ups in a large room next to our dressing room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was already convinced I wouldn’t find a place on any of the school sporting teams, and now it looked like choir was out of the mix too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Already, though, he was picturing himself walking his bright, clean children up to Pastor Tom during an altar call, sunlight coming through the windows, the choir singing, the whole church looking on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I’m related to the director, I don’t sing well enough to make the Fairview choir. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

My children's choir singing for the queen of the Netherlands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My parents always come to my choir practice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Singing and bearing candles, the nuns leave the choir and follow the priest to the sepulchre. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I can see other choirs waiting in the wings. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Each instrument class will play one piece, and the choir will sing,” Ms. Parker explains. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

While she dined, sweet music breathed around her: a great choir seemed to sing to a harp, but she could only hear, not see, them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be in choir,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Its face was much too large for her slender wrist “You were at choir practice,” she said matter-of-factly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The two women dropped the sheet disgustedly on the floor and followed the choir, which was already beginning to file through the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dragged through the church’s back door, which is only ever used by the priest and the choir during service and leads out to the courtyard and classrooms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pagan drums, ethereal choirs, tribal chanting, wailing lamentations, guttural snarls, unnatural howls, and piercing screams united in relentless disharmony. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For any number of reasons, concrete and ineffable, there was something about Katherine Goble that made her as comfortable in the office in 1244 as she was in the choir loft at Carver Presbyterian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember the last time her church choir had worn robes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stared at them, squinting, their words blending as precisely as a well-rehearsed choir. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some places they play choirs of bamboo clarinets. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not ready to talk about my solution to the choir problem. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The choir joins in, blending in so sweet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The room was very still except for a boys’ choir singing “Hark the Herald Angels” very softly on the radio. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack turned to die choir, who stood ready. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Wanda had a great voice and sang in the school choir. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sang in the choir in a clear beautiful voice like an angel. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aron was confirmed in the Episcopal church and took his place in the choir on Sundays. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The headmaster asked the choir students to stand wherever they were in the auditorium and briefly sing something. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

About this time, Marian was invited to join the People’s Chorus, made up of a hundred voices recruited from black church choirs all over the city. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In Salinas, Olive had experienced niceties of living, the choir and vestments, Altar Guild, and bean suppers of the Episcopal church. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday mornings the whole family attended Central Christian Church, where Nellie was the principal pianist and Harry sang in the choir. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One of my friends had formed a chamber choir that was to sing carols during dinner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And it was a mighty, mighty choir too. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d dragged his desk into my room, and while the choir sang I would settle into his chair and study, just as I’d seen him do on a thousand nights. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Princesse was away for the night, attending a choir concert in a nearby city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One school choir's excitement about performing for immigrant children in Packingtown evaporated when the singers were pelted with stones by some neighborhood toughs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To Ben, the Latin responses had more gravity at night, especially when combined with a choir and a packed church. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fidgeting continued when the congregation sang along with the choir, songs like the ones blasting in Gran’s house and car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Applications were passed along at homecoming tailgates and choir rehearsals, at the meetings of Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha sororities and the Newsome Park PTA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They never missed Sunday service at Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church, and one night a week when they left Langley they headed over to Carver for choir practice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The priest broke it when he said, with pride in his voice, “Piscine is a good Christian boy. I hope to see him join our choir soon.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She also worked with the school choir; under her direction, several of Moton’s vocal quartets had come away victorious in statewide music competitions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The amen choir repeats “What’d you say?” in a drawl sounds nothing like me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The eejit choir was lined up like mechanical toys, and someone was sitting at Matt’s piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now the servants chattering have become a choir in a silent movie, a line of O mouths — or a school of fish, blub blub. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bri and Julie promptly fought over the remote control, only to find it was a national day of mourning and all the TV stations had memorial services on, with sermons and choirs and politicians. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He also was a good singer and sang in the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prim and serious, she directed the choir at a local church and was also our community’s resident piano teacher. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like a strange sort of choir music, one voice blending into the next, the refrains so familiar that he could have mouthed the words along with them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

TJ and Jasmine went to the same church, where they sang in the youth choir together. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the thunderous singing from the choir propped me up and strengthened me to walk back to my seat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pulpit was empty, though the choir was already in place, fanning themselves although it was not warm. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the old biddies who filled most of the choir box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At die moment, their choir coach, an enormous woman in tweeds, was advising them to open their mouths wider when they sang. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The ladies in the choir weren’t always in tune. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Rejoicing that their Lord is risen, they carry the news to the nuns seated in the choir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The choir sang two more songs, each better than the one before. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of his army slept in the choir loft or the lady chapel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Once the family was seated, Mrs. Hawkins raised her arms for the choir to begin. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Marian never missed a Sunday at Union Baptist Church with either the junior or senior choir. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Reverend Lanier wasn’t preaching to the choir, he was preaching for it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the Fowey, we hear distantly a choir of seamen singing a Jubilate in harmony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I wonder who been sleepin on that old thing,” the intense woman with the spiritual bent, who was to be the leader of the choir, said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First there’d be regular church, then a program, then a glee club competition, then another sermon, then different choirs would sing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

My family got involved with a local church, and my dad formed a choir with the kids in the congregation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The congregation sang along with the choir for an eye-rolling half hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And the theater and the choir girls, of course. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The choir ceased its singing and looked hurt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1270 the chapels in the apse and most of the piers and buttresses of the choir were finished. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

A huge wooden cross hung on the wall behind the pulpit, right above the choir members. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

People all around us were weeping so loudly, it sounded like a choir. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The choir members, no longer on the spot themselves, are free to enjoy Franklin’s solo performance. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In May, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London announced that it would introduce a separate girls choir from 2025. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

He walks down the aisle towards a black gospel choir onstage, robed in red and black, their voices rising. Before the clouds came in 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Candles lit the streets of Ballybricken late on Monday, as her coffin was brought to the church where McNamara said she once sang and played keyboard in the local choir. Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan laid to rest in home town 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Large amateur choirs form the backbone of so many but rarely get top billing, so it was good to find the BBC Symphony Chorus thrust firmly into the spotlight on Sunday afternoon. Proms 30 & 31: BBC Symphony Chorus; BBCSO/Davies 2010-08-09T11:32:00Z

As a girl, she sang in a church choir. Blanche Thebom, Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-03-28T02:25:00Z

Known for its precision, attention to detail and tonality, the Westminster choir is recorded twice a year by Hyperion, the British classical music label. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

G.G., who wants the position for herself so as to steer the choir in a more progressive direction, gets all irritable about this. Heavenly casting lifts folksy 'Joyful Noise' 2012-01-11T19:47:11Z

Often called the country’s oldest orchestra, the Hallé and its choir were established in 1858 by a German pianist and conductor, Charles Hallé. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

A 25-person choir in black and orange clothes stood on a small stage near a screen showing election coverage from various media outlets. What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Pärt wrote the piece for this choir, and it's hard to imagine it sung by anyone else. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir ? review 2011-02-13T21:46:00Z

The work featured two choirs, flying solo instrumentalists, live electronic and acoustic music, and a string quartet streamed live from four airborne helicopters. Sarah Connolly wins UK classical music's top live singing award 2013-05-14T21:06:15Z

The three commissioned scores featured a group of about 150 students from choirs at Forest Hills High School in Queens, Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and Scarsdale High School. Music Review: Carmina Burana Choral Project at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-06T23:19:09Z

This performance, in which James controls a string orchestra and a choir by a series of visual cues, is very much consistent with his unpredictability. This week's new live music 2012-10-05T23:05:18Z

At the end of the opera, as the brotherhood of the grail is renewed, the final words sung by the choirs of knights are "redemption to the redeemer". Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z

I first got to know this when I was in a chamber choir at Cambridge University, before I had any notion of becoming a professional singer. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

The choir is one of several Ukrainian ensembles to go abroad since the invasion, as part of efforts to highlight the country’s cultural identity. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The music, for chamber choir and string ensemble, “is visceral in its energy,” said Harry Christophers, who will conduct the Lincoln Center performance by The Sixteen and the Britten Sinfonia. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The beloved Beatle dug into his contacts for help on the chorus of “Here’s to the Nights,” his most recent song written by Diane Warren, and he recruited quite a choir. Ringo calling! If he wants you to sing, who could say no? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

The opera begins in a watery blur, with a choir, sounding simultaneously floating and precise, chanting fragments of Woolf’s classic opening line: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Cynthia, 71, and Julian Lennon, 47, looked on in Lennon's birthplace Liverpool as a choir performed his music. John Lennon's son unveils monument on anniversary 2010-10-09T18:15:00Z

After moving to Oakland, Calif., in 1950, she directed choirs at Bay Area churches. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

In “Salve Regina,” a celesta joined the choir and string orchestra, adding a touch of radiance to what is otherwise a private, almost reticent affirmation of faith. Diverse Disciples Flock to an Arvo Pärt Tribute 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

The private, non-profit choir said on Wednesday it hoped to reach an agreement with politicians on the rent but that the alternative was closure. Vienna Boys' Choir faces crisis over rent bill 2013-07-17T15:40:37Z

In short, there are some funny lines and a lot of designer shoes, décolletage and choir practice. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z

Fox does, however, lead two of the choirs involved, including the New York-based Clarion Choir, with whom he recently recorded the a cappella version of this work. Review | After 100 years, a gentle Requiem has its premiere 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

You play the french horn in orchestra and brass ensemble, and you sing in the choir and the chamber choir. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

I came top of the music exams during my first term there, competing against boys who had spent years at choir schools and had enjoyed Eton’s excellent music tuition for a year longer than me. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The righteous will evidently never tire of the pelting and taunting of , and perhaps those like him who choose to join the Roman choir of extreme unctuousness must expect their meed of abuse. Christopher Hitchens: 'The righteous will evidently never tire of the pelting and taunting of Tony Blair' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

He believes an upcoming work for choir and chamber orchestra, built from sketches performed for the first time at his wedding to Ms. Williams-Haas, is among the best pieces he has written. A Composer and His Wife: Creativity Through Kink 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Persuading eight- to 13-year-old boys to comb their hair, let alone join a choir, is a tough call. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Braun and Spence caressed the senseless pity of it all, lullabied to endless sleep by the In Paradisum of the chorus and boys' choir. Britten's War Requiem; Music in the Space Time Continuum – review 2013-06-29T23:06:15Z

To ears recently attuned to New York’s finest professional choirs, the sound of this amateur group was not terribly impressive, especially in the Chamber Choir’s performance of Schumann’s “Talismane,” where individual voices were mercilessly exposed. Music Review: Dessoff Choirs at Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2012-02-07T23:41:03Z

He also set up his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, who for more than 30 years have been recording Mr. Rutter’s output for his own CD label, Collegium Records. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

The 360-member choir, the lyrical voice of Mormonism since pioneer days, was on a mission with multiple levels, historians and surviving singers say. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

Jack Henderson Clement was born on April 5, 1931, in Memphis, where his father was a choir director and worked in a jewelry store. ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement, country-music icon, dies at 82 2013-08-09T05:47:51Z

In the 20th century, reciting poetry and the formation of "speaking choirs" were employed to erode traditionally Black speech patterns as well as those associated with regional and lower-class dialects. From Biden to "Bridgerton," how our stuttering heroes bring a restoration of democracy 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

This being New York City, he may be mostly preaching to the choir. Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

He contacted a host of Western singers about collaborating with the choir, which included two women from the 1980s recordings. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Dec. 15, 1948: Prince Charles, now heir to the throne, was christened in the music room at Buckingham Palace with the choir from St. James’s Palace brought in for the ceremony. Timeline: A history of British royal babies 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

In a nod to Bruckner, he began with his arrangement of the composer’s “Ave Maria” choral motet, utilizing Vocaloid, a synthesizer choir. Review: After a Concert, a Nightcap to Demystify New Music 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Performing his role of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, Elfman will sing live to the film alongside a full orchestra, choir and co-stars Catherine O’Hara, Ken Page and Paul Reubens. Danny Elfman on How 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Endured 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the thought inspired the memorable scene in which Cinderella renders Sing, Sweet Nightingale while scrubbing the floor, accompanied by a choir of Cinderellas reflected on dozens of soap bubbles. Ilene Woods obituary 2010-07-19T17:01:00Z

A choir member's mom worked for Fox at the time, and the show was looking to hold the premiere at a school. 'Glee' finale: A Gleek's goodbye, and memories of how it all began 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

While they rehearse, you are issued with a snazzy video iPod and headphones, and set off around the town on a solo journey with members of the choir as your recorded video and sound guides. Outdoors ? review 2011-03-11T21:45:01Z

Surrounded by various drums and effects pedals, the East Coast native often began songs by singing into a microphone and repeating the process before looping the results into a self-contained choir of overlapping voices. Tune-Yards thrill sold-out Lincoln Hall 2011-05-11T14:16:00Z

Your average English school choir comprises whoever can be trusted to turn up to 30% of rehearsals and not get pregnant before mastering the descant on Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Cable girl: Gleeful 2010-06-08T09:24:00Z

This year, in addition to the King’s commission, she wrote a setting of “In Dulci Jubilo” for the choir of Wells Cathedral in southwest England. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Using atmospheric soundscapes and traditional Xhosa movement, the performance will feature a single dancer, four vocal soloists and a live local choir. BAM Plans a Smaller Next Wave Festival 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Ratzinger, who died last year, said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir but did nothing about it. Famous German boys’ choir to add new choir for girls 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to draw her in a choir,” he said. “The Queen of Soul” (After Charles White’s “Folksinger”), by Kadir Nelson 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

I mutter something about the choir's loss and fiction's gain. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

The opera — which was later lost — featured obscene lyrics, a choir and what Tavener called his “thunderous” performance on the organ. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z

A 400-person choir will also perform “America the Beautiful” and “Lift Every Voice.” Museum to celebrate Star-Spangled Banner in song 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

“I saw the photograph,” he continues, in the voice of a melancholy choir boy: From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

He played Finn Hudson, a football quarterback with two left feet who found more camaraderie in the choir room than on the football field. 'Glee' convention becomes memorial for Monteith 2013-07-15T13:56:17Z

When he returned to New York in 1852, Fry staged an elaborate series of public lectures on the history of music, featuring soloists, choirs, bands and a full orchestra. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

The foreground may be folky guitar or simple, steady chords from a piano, but Mr. Stevens places them in a ghostly realm, his own voice overdubbed into a hovering choir, subtle auras of reverb. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I told Sean, ‘If we put our personalities into this, people are going to love it,’ ” said Ms. Taylor, who grew up in Texas singing for her church choir and idolizing Aaliyah. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Family-friendly programming includes performances of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," June 18 and 19, with the CSO, vocal soloists and choir performing Howard Shore's Oscar-winning score. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z

What if the choir came from different cities? Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

The choir from King's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was scheduled to sing. Thousands gather to dedicate King Memorial 2011-10-16T13:59:00Z

Shawn Mitchell, Isles’ pastor at New Venture Christian Fellowship, said he’ll always remember Isles’ voice and buoyancy on stage when he sang with the church choir. Co-founder of chart-topping The O’Jays dies of cancer at 78 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

I Must Be Jesus comically and gloriously combines depression, a Welsh male voice choir and Rossiter's apparent childhood belief that he must be Christ. Martin Rossiter: The Defenestration of St Martin – review 2012-11-29T21:30:03Z

The choir included male altos, with a whiteish, trumpeting tone; the Trinity Baroque Orchestra was composed of period instruments, with a reedy tang. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

As a singer, Lady A first stretched her cords in a youth gospel choir, becoming the director by age 16. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

“This little light of mine sung by a black choir to end the royal wedding. I am LIVING,” tweeted Morgan Palmer, an African-American college student in Athens, Georgia. African-Americans hail UK royal wedding's nod to black history,... 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

It is too easy to take this choir for granted, so fine are its performances year after year. Review: Bach Passions in New York 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The beat, a loop of hand drums, a distant choir and a flute line, is resolute and unhurried. Mariah Carey Calls for Action, and 12 More New Songs 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Okorocha began singing in a church choir then moved on to perform in bars and at concerts. Nigeria's 'Rock Goddess' wants to change people's minds 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

They all preach to the choir while the people who need to be reached remain outside the church of the Enlightenment. Typing Classes, the Aubrey-Maturin Series and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

The orchestra and the choirs, the heart of the programme, help create a sense of solidarity. José Antonio Abreu on Venezuela's El Sistema miracle 2012-06-14T19:00:02Z

It also gave choir members an outlet for the intense emotions they were experiencing. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

All we need are six world-class soloists, a full-strength choir, and a repetiteur of sufficient pianistic brilliance to mimic the score's vivid orchestral colouring. Fancy bashing through Wolfgang Rihm's new operatic masterpiece? 2010-07-23T10:01:00Z

I studied these books day and night, carrying them everywhere I went: to the yard, to the chow hall, and to choir practice. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

It also enabled me to teach and create new songs for the choir quickly. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Half of the choir wore white gloves and, instead of singing, gestured in time to the music, looking like a flock of white doves suddenly disturbed or launched into coordinated flight. ArtsBeat: A Musical Exchange in Venezuela: El Sistema Performs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2012-02-17T00:04:15Z

It's the same with the supplications of the tenor soloist – here, the excellent Barry Banks – that ripple over the massed ranks of the choir and orchestra with fragile grandeur. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z

She was the choir asking to be preached to, and the seventy-odd seconds that followed constituted a splendid glitch. On “Fox & Friends First,” a Congressional Candidate Plays a Prank for the Common Good 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The performances were everywhere wonderful, though with surprisingly little reveling in the subterranean bass notes that all Russian choirs cultivate. Music Review: Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-17T22:12:44Z

So for the choir, our way was singing. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z

“Ever heard a Russian choir singing in elongated notes?” How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Still in its beginning stages, there is no music for the choir. Williston schools, churches adapt to population 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Back in 1992, the Chicago Tribune reported that the CEO made the same comment about young girls performing in a choir outside the Plaza Hotel. “SNL” normalized Casey Affleck: A year after Trump, letting another sexual abuser host sends a bad message to women 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Although the final unexpected appearance of a community choir hints otherwise, this is clearly not meant to be anything other than a couple of hours of theatrical high japes. Moby Dick 2010-04-26T20:30:00Z

Also adding immensely to the strong feel of community in this production is the choir, drawn entirely from local Seattle talent. A brilliant cast breaks through stereotypes in Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Then the delicate I'm Not Stupid delivers a lovely surprise: a female choir appear in the balcony to add feathery harmonies. Cat's Eyes ? review 2011-03-21T18:26:59Z

He said the choir itself was not a particularly inspiring experience, but the shortage of boys resulted in more opportunities and his placement in a barbershop octet. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

I think "Glee" is actually going to push show choirs into doing two things. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

Trinity’s period-instrument ensemble and choir produce a light, precise, nimble sound that gains warmth and richness in the church’s acoustic. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

And then the blue pleated outfits, which were Solange’s reference to church choirs. Solange Knowles’s Stylist Will Do Anything to Hunt Down a Look 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Illuminated pages of a 15th-century choir book with the Latin Mass shine with retrospective glory; the leaves, with their early forms of musical notation, prefigure the evolution of Western art music. ‘Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual’ Review: Art Meant to Excite the Soul 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

When his spoken text referred to rat populations and their proximity to outdoor diners, his pretaped vocal choir started to chant about something “crawling up my leg.” Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

She started performing early, singing in the choir of her Catholic church in New Haven. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Chenoweth was joined by a small, youthful choir, from the Performing Arts Project, for the spiritual “Upon This Rock.” Review: Kristin Chenoweth, That Perky Performer With the Powerhouse Pipes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the book’s introduction, Kendi equates the project to “a Black choir singing the spiritual into the heavens of history.” From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith performed in “David Danced Before the Lord With All His Might,” his movements complementing a text sung with clipped austerity by the choirs. Music Review: Six Youth Choirs Sing From Ellington’s Sacred Concerts 2014-03-26T19:59:03Z

I’d sung in the choirs on troop ships to get out of other duties. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Any tendencies of the first movement to sound unyieldingly foursquare are obviated by remarkably precise articulation and pure intonation from all the instrumental choirs. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

There, at sundown, a men’s choir sings praise songs known as qawwali. The Asia Issue: Asian Odysseys 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

They also created updates of traditional music, such as spirituals, including contemporary arrangements for a children’s choir. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The Netherlands Broadcasting Music Centre, which runs three orchestras, a choir and, as it happens, a world-class library, is to be disbanded – a move akin to abolishing the BBC's musical ensembles. Arts cuts in the Netherlands are a disaster 2010-10-05T21:05:00Z

Some have celebrated it as a long overdue step toward equality, and others have agonized that it may herald the demise of boys-only choirs. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The concert marked the opening of the cathedral’s three-part British Choirs Festival, which in the spring will feature the choirs of King’s College, Cambridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Westminster Abbey’s men and boys choir delights at National Cathedral

The Roberta Martin Singers, a touring gospel group, emerged from Pilgrim Baptist's youth choir, and Campbell joined it when she was in high school. Delois Barrett Campbell, gospel singer, dead at 85 2011-08-02T19:29:17Z

It’s like in church: there is a choir who knows the music, but everyone else just follows along. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z

“Our Moroccan choir has not got visas,” Helms said. Mongolians, Zimbabweans and refugees come to sing for JFK 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The sky and commanding sun had shrunk, willingly transformed into a backdrop for a figure who was striding — or pacing — in front of the choir in a white shirt and tie, holding a microphone. Obama as folk hero: To be what he’s trying to be — black, idealistic and president — is nothing less than superhuman 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ana’s father, Jimmy Greene, a jazz saxophonist, remembers standing with his arms outstretched as the choir sang. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The gospel musical event, includes a community choir and band, is part of The Shed’s “Open Call” series, “The Revival” starts on Saturday at 8 p.m. Juneteenth: 7 Events for Celebrating the Holiday in New York 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The choir, 56 strong, fills the hall ecstatically with “Allelluia,” and later, in Act 2, the sultriness of Shrader’s tenor is a match for the lilting “Ballad of Eldorado.” Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Exactly 28 minutes into the rehearsal’s second half, Ms. Brookes, the pianist, was leading the choir through a song involving lots of body percussion, in which the singers beat their chests. At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

He joined the choir as a tenor, but testosterone caused his voice to drop. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

And “Just Like Heaven” turned the fans into the Grant Park choir. 300,000's a crowd at packed Lollapalooza 2013-07-29T17:54:00Z

I directed a madrigal choir and for some of our concerts we rented Renaissance Faire-esque dresses. When the ‘Mean Girls’ Were Teen Girls 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

With mournful vocals over descending chords, eventually joined by full orchestra and choir Kiwanuka sings about how love “rescued me from a nightmare.” Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

These two artists have put a softly steaming small choir in the orchestra pit, and musicians in balcony boxes for fractured fanfares. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

But this album was supposed to be band only – not embroidered with added strings and voices – and McCartney fumed when Spector added a female choir to his song "The Long and Winding Road." A look inside the Beatles’ messy breakup, 50 years later 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

The festival closes March 4 with choirs incorporating folk, world, beat-boxing and classical into their performances. In Transit Blog: A London Music Series Redefines the Classics 2012-02-24T11:00:11Z

Days later, David Willcocks, who directed the chapel choir of King’s College nearby, requested the manuscript. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

A choir of some two dozen parishioners sang gospel music in between speakers who eulogized the loss. Cop investigates scene, finds stepson dead 2011-12-06T03:46:00Z

I manage to find out the age range of the six-woman, four-man choir – 26 to 60 – before the conversation collapses into benign confusion, with lots of smiling and shrugging. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

He vividly recalled hearing a minister’s wife sing “I Been ’Buked,” and he recalled witnessing a baptism at a lake while a choir sang “Wade in the Water.” Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ still dances into audiences’ hearts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The Highgate School choir sang on illustrious recordings like the original Benjamin Britten “War Requiem,” from 1963, which features the young Mr. Rutter as an alto, though you wouldn’t notice him. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her comments sparked panic among some choirs and singing teachers in the United States — one podcast said comments in that webinar were a “death sentence.” When Will It Be Safe to Sing Together Again? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Then, the director did something none of his predecessors had, in the choir’s entire 350-year history: He called upon a girl to sing. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

For his latest show he's introducing music for an homage to Patsy Cline with a choir of internet covers of her tracks. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z

James sang gospel in the church choir and stood out even as a 5-year-old. Blues singer Etta James dies at 73 2012-01-21T01:55:50Z

There were, in those days, also sometimes scrappy performances at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue, with a choir of men and boy trebles led by Gerre Hancock. Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

His choral compositions and published arrangements of Christmas carols are sung by choirs around the world. Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Raised in Los Angeles, she sang in a church choir, acted in community theater — she was the mayor of Munchkinland in her school’s version of “The Wizard of Oz” — and took dance and piano lessons. Nickelodeon Turns to Cymphonique Miller in ?How to Rock? 2011-12-26T22:20:04Z

Any disappointment in missing Stravinsky’s pellucid orchestral writing was mitigated by the sparkle of the pianists, Pedja Muzijevic and Steven Beck, and in the brilliant singing of the choir and the Trinity Youth Chorus. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z

But what you noticed most were beguiling half-tints and richly blended ensemble passages, eloquent brass choirs and a string sound that still does honor to the Philadelphia Orchestra legend. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Leads Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z

But membership of the more traditional Welsh male-voice choirs is falling. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

All this time, she was also singing — for the school choir, the church choir and the neighborhood girl group that she started herself. They came to IHOP for pancakes. They stayed for her song. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Musgraves might have calculated that preaching jeremiads to the choir was bad for business. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

During a visit to Cuba, the former President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez heard her sing in a children’s choir. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

In March the Elbphilharmonie will present a festival dedicated to Syrian music and culture that will bring together residents and new arrivals in projects including a community choir and creative workshops. Finally, a Debut for the Elbphilharmonie Hall in Hamburg 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

She sings in the Portuguese fado tradition; she recruits a Cape Verdean choir to back her on a batuque-inspired number; she duets with the recorded voice of the Colombian singer Maluma. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

A youthful drum corps appeared; a robed choir appeared. The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

"It's very rich, it's like a choir," says Self. TubaChristmas presents holiday music at its most sonorous 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Whoopi Goldberg has written an essay for the catalog; the designer LaQuan Smith will be speaking at the Palm Beach event; and in New York the Abyssinian Baptist choir will perform. The Fashion Sale of the Century 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Redfyre’s pleasure comes to an abrupt end, however, when someone shoves the gifted trumpeter Juno Proudfoot down the steps of the choir loft. Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The sisters, who were primarily raised in Paris, learned Yoruba chants in a choir as teenagers. Ibeyi capitvates 9:30 Club with songs that touch both the past and the future 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

It was in the densely contrapuntal Byrd that the choir shone its brightest, but its singing in the Howells and Muhly was finely polished, and often moving as well. Music Review: Trinity Choir in Nico Muhly Works at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-07-02T20:54:29Z

The two here with the best chance of doing that build sturdy dramas rather than preach to a captive choir. Theater Review: Theater Uncut at the Clurman Theater 2013-01-30T22:42:22Z

Their sound is warmer and more warbly than that of a British church choir, and hints at the characteristic Russian subterranean bass without overegging it. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir ? review 2011-02-13T21:46:00Z

His father was a pastor, and Nate sang in the choir of the New Hope Baptist Church as a child. Nate Dogg obituary 2011-03-16T17:33:19Z

Graham Vick will direct the more than 150 performers including two choirs, live electronic and acoustic music and a string quartet streamed from four helicopters flying overhead. Stockhausen opera premiere set in UK 2012-03-13T19:46:03Z

When Broemel added his own high, wordless harmonies, the sound was otherworldly – like a choir punching through to an alternative universe. My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z

I asked my husband to slow the car to better catch the crowd snapping photos, and as he did so, I heard a choir singing hallelujahs on the lawn. Not feeling like Christmas? There is peace and serenity in the lights. 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Then, on “Accident Murderers”, a piece of Big Apple classicism is turned emphatic through a monstrous organ sample and a choir. Nas Returns to Form with Life Is Good 2012-07-20T16:07:52Z

But one hopes we’re not preaching to the choir – that there is an understanding that we all are the choir. Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’ 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

It's a vast musical endeavour, involving a large choir, a children's choir, a chamber orchestra, a big orchestra, two male soloists and a great big dramatic soprano. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

Give Fun. a verse, and it’ll send you back a choir and a song filled with shout-outs built for sporting events. Grammy Awards: Fun. takes song of the year; Frank Ocean, Adele win 2013-02-11T03:02:00Z

Ukrainian composers at the turn of the century, many of them rooted in the Russian Orthodox choral tradition, wrote more for choir than any other ensemble. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Does he really fear that the internationally renowned CBSO, its offshoot, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, its choirs and education programmes could face cuts? Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

The vocal soloists, mostly drawn from the choir, were also fine. ?Madama Butterfly,? Monteverdi?s 1610 Vespers and Gerald Finley 2010-03-21T23:42:00Z

The camp was among a handful across the country that rode the wave of "Glee" popularity to create a show choir comeback. Teens mimic 'Glee' at summer camp and into fall 2010-09-07T20:01:00Z

During the City of London festival, the geographical limits of the square mile expand southwards to Southwark cathedral, allowing the institution's choir to make its own contribution to the event. Sculthorpe Requiem ? review 2011-07-06T18:45:00Z

A free open-house weekend will close out the month, with choirs, youth orchestras, Philharmonic players, hip-hop groups, dance troupes and others performing each day in different spaces in the hall. David Geffen Hall Reopens, Hoping Its $550 Million Renovation Worked 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Organizers discovered just how many singers and choirs there are hiding in plain sight around New York in providing the project with singers and conductors. Massaging 1,000 Voices Into Lincoln Center’s Choral Miracle 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But “coupled with the 35th anniversary of the choir, some alums felt it was one of the best experience of their lives,” Alexander-Hill said. Seattle Girls Choir takes a second-place honor at European cultural festival 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Robust Collection of Singing Visitors In the great Anglican tradition, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue has a superb men and boys choir, as well as a school for the training of its young singers. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z

As they sang lilting hymns at the funeral, some of the red-gowned choir members put their arms around each other. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

SMP provides tutoring, performance opportunities and help in making the transition to Washington Middle School’s bands, orchestras, fiddle club and choir. Kids in need get gift of music 2013-09-09T05:01:08Z

“It will come back to you in a demented form. I may hear an Icelandic choir and 18 violins, but as we develop it, it begins to sound more like us.” ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

During the opera we hear it many ways: sung by an angelic children’s choir, blasting forth from the full orchestra, proclaimed by throngs of choristers in the courtyard of the palace. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

Adams, who performed two rousing songs backed by a gospel choir, thanked the Grammy Foundation "for preserving the authenticity of all music." Music teachers now eligible for new Grammy honor 2013-02-08T10:16:04Z

Soloists stepped out of the choir to sing. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

Under Mr. Fox’s deft guidance, the choir’s voices blended beautifully, with alluring details of phrasing and dynamics admirable from the opening “Come, Let Us Worship.” Music Review: Clarion Choir in Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-01-02T22:39:23Z

New Rule: No more looking down one's nose at liberals who "preach to the choir." The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

The couple met in a school choir group. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

“We started this process by trying to figure out how we could talk to people that might not consider themselves to be in the climate choir,” Scott said. The environment doesn’t have to be a partisan issue -- or so one film festival is trying to show 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

There are backing vocals that sound like a Balkan choir. New band of the day ? No 976: Dark Dark Dark 2011-03-01T16:24:00Z

Vaughan Williams divided the string section into two blocs which throw call-and-response repetitions at each other as if from either side of the choir stalls. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

In “Bravement,” for choir and obbligato light bulbs, Lautaro Mantilla did away with words altogether, creating a kind of vocal installation on the themes of sisterhood and silence. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z

I did piano, karate, baseball, painting and sang in choirs, and I started doing ballet when I was 12 or 13. ‘I Would Love to Sing Lucia’: A Male Soprano Comes Into His Own 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Sitting in groups, brightly attired and surrounded by family supporters wearing their colours or waving flags, the six choirs competing dominated the swarming interior. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

There was a gospel choir, and dancing from Secretariat, the fake horse. On 'The Late Late Show,' Craig Ferguson became best host on TV 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Tribal Widow blends a rattling rhythm like twigs clattering against a window with sleek, ominous synth hits and far-off, cut-up bursts of a male choir. This week's new singles 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

The orchestra is joined by a choir — intoning the word “luz,” Spanish for “light” — that adds more voluptuous hues to the sound palette. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

No lutenist or madrigal choir is needed: his "airs" sing from the page. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z

DB: It’s true that I was asked to leave the choir. Table for Three: Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadway 2014-03-14T23:21:20Z

“Even being used to the big sets of the Arena, it is still very beautiful,’’ said Guia Veronese, a regular at the Arena whose 8-year-old son was singing in the Pagliacci boys’ choir. Verona Arena subs monumental sets with dynamic video 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

Vivaldi wrote the work for an all-female choir in Venice that attracted listeners from all over Europe. An ambitious program teams Bella Voce and Callipygian Players 2011-03-06T18:12:00Z

The girls of St Albans Abbey are aged eight to 14, drawn – as are the boy choristers – from local schools, not a dedicated choir school. Mendelssohn: Choral Music – review 2012-09-29T23:05:35Z

And on the Greek island of Chios, choirs sang to welcome her as an orchestra played. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The 29 members who competed were in the senior choir. Seattle Girls Choir takes a second-place honor at European cultural festival 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, too, the purity of her voice carries the song; she's lovely when offset by a four-man gospel "choir" on Ready to Question. Gabrielle Aplin: English Rain – review 2013-05-09T21:15:01Z

Her songs mingle Pan-American rhythms with pop exuberance, deploy electronics amid live instruments, and stack her confident vocals into overpowering virtual choirs. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

I was in glee club, theater, choir, band. Costume designer Lou Eyrich keeps 'Glee' fashions in step with the times 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z

She grew up in Boston and started singing in a gospel choir and went on to become one of disco's biggest stars and won five Grammy Awards. A life in pictures: Donna Summer 2012-05-17T16:54:29Z

Returning to the States, the choir dazzled audiences at the Apollo and appeared alongside Harry Belafonte at the Westbury Music Fair. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

As the star tenor in the school’s choir, he refers to his throat, both piously and not, as “the Lord’s passageway.” Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Singing in choirs is hugely popular in a country where a major music festival draws hundreds of thousands of spectators and 15,000 singers. Latvian choirs go online to sing through coronavirus lockdown 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

The women’s choir sings relentless phrases espousing the determination of these immigrants to “talk like,” “look like” and “sing like” Americans. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

As a child, Mr. Cranshaw said he often visited church basements in Evanston because he could feel the bass notes of the organ and choirs through the foundation of the building. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

A male voice choir sang, as did High Voltage, an AC/DC tribute act. Stuart Cable 2010-06-21T15:41:00Z

He sang in the local Presbyterian Church choir, picked up ukulele at 12 and became enamored of rock guitar in his teens, mimicking Chuck Berry and Chet Atkins. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

At school, they tried to make him sing in the choir. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

The choir sounded radiant in the poignant “Rejoice, O Virgin,” singing with a hushed, intense intimacy that bloomed into a full-blooded, gorgeous sheen. Music Review: Clarion Choir in Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-01-02T22:39:23Z

At one point, the choir walked to the front of the chapel and performed an experimental piece involving an electronic backing of whale sounds, the girls’ red outfits standing out among the boys’ white robes. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Big break: “I’ve always been a show-off,” Ms. Stasey said of her childhood, which was filled with choir and drama clubs. Caitlin Stasey Stars in Ed Burns’s ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

He first put together a black cast to perform at a wine estate’s 2000 summer festival near Cape Town by spreading the word through township choirs. Athol Fugard?s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid?s Ghost 2010-03-13T00:01:00Z

I hope in 100 years time bands will sample the choirs who sung in the Halifax adverts. Vondelpark, Tom Odell, Sky Ferreira: this week's new tracks 2013-03-25T06:00:00Z

It’s sung by church choirs and high school choruses. Review: In Time for the Holidays, Radiant Praetorius Carols 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

This year, because of the pandemic, the choir hasn’t performed in public since March, when the coronavirus stopped group singing almost entirely in Europe. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

I’m in the choir at church even now. Irma Thomas, a Soul Queen Far Beyond New Orleans 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

"I want a choir at the end," she says. Luisa Omielan: destiny's comic 2013-07-29T18:29:00Z

I also watched because I loved it – I just happened to turn on for the news – Welsh male voice choir – 1000 voices … And I did enjoy Superstore. Margaret Thatcher v Smash Hits – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-09T11:25:08Z

With the money she saved on clothes, Miller’s mother paid for piano lessons and encouraged her daughter to sing in the church choir. Patina Miller Chooses High Drama 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

Outside the choir door, a bulletin board was layered with a collage of cards, printed emails and letters, flags of hope and despair, asking the sisters for an intercession. Growing Pains for the Dominican Nuns of Summit 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The first spirituals are “the story of African Americans before they started going to church,” says Stanley Thurston, artistic director of Washington Performing Arts’ gospel choirs. Lonnae O’Neal: ‘Deep River’ for these deeply troubled times 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

This 32-year-old playwright, whose “Brother/Sister Plays” first made him a theatrical figure of note, grew up in Miami and sang in the choir of the Missionary Baptist Church until he was 10. In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z

There were dancing troupes, a choir, red-bow-tied trumpeters, keyboard players and people darting around filming on their tablets. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

Certain scenes feature spatially separated choirs, creating the illusion of depth and three-dimensional reality that was so important to verismo composers. Strauss’s ‘Elektra’ Sure Seems to Resemble Another Work 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Lincoln Center’s spirituality-focused , which presented the Latvian choir, took its name from a quotable Pärt line. Music Review: Latvian Radio Choir in White Light Festival 2012-11-19T22:34:21Z

Participants include the Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, the rector of Trinity Church Wall Street; a choir, with brass and handballs; William Randolph Jr., music director and organist. Spare Times for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The new track includes a backing choir of schoolboy footballers from clubs in the Premier League and the German Bundesliga. Peace record takes on X Factor 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

She sang and played the piano and oboe, spending summers at choir camp and moving to Toronto at 17 to attend a performing arts high school, where she delved into arranging, voice, dance, theater. A Soprano Finds a New Voice: Conducting 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I was involved in the musicals in high school and wanted to continue singing in college, so I auditioned for college choir and joined men’s choir,” Neville said. Artist adds color to Hastings College piano 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

In 1945, Shostakovich announced his intention to create an epic, euphoric symphony with choir and soloists to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

More seriously for a book aimed at a mass readership, too much of "What's the Economy For, Anyway?" preaches to the choir. Authors dubious that economic growth leads to happiness 2011-12-08T21:37:04Z

“I wanted to start a choir,” he recalled, “about intentional respect.” For These Classical Musicians, It’s Always Been About Racial Equity 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The five groups scheduled to perform include a gospel choir, the Catholic University Chamber Choir and a “Papal Mass Choir” of 90 participants selected from more than 300 people who auditioned in the D.C. area. Music fit for a pope 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

His choir, The Disciples, sang background for Madonna’s song “Like a Prayer.” Andrae Crouch, Legendary Gospel Figure, Dies at 72 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Those who spoke during the ceremony stood in front of a shining cross, towering choir stalls, and giant pillars illuminated with glowing yellow lights. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Her gargantuan site-specific piece Crepuscular Hour, created for one of Oslo's largest churches and due to receive its British premiere at Huddersfield, bombards the audience with three choirs and an enormous sound-and-light installation. Opera for babies 2012-11-15T21:00:02Z

He’s not preaching to the choir: He’s bragging to it. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

With a tangle of chains gripping his throat and pearls spilling from a pocket, he looked like a rangy choir boy gone very bad. Don’t Call Him Machine Gun Kelly 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The performance, featuring Mr. Washington’s expanded coterie, including a celestial choir and strings, would be on my list of best shows, had I been present. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

The pair brought up James in the Christian faith, and as a young girl, her voice stood out in the church choir. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

Female thinkers are often accused of chattering back and forth to themselves, preaching to a choir of the converted and avoiding pushing their message into a wider arena. TED: Even more elitist than we thought 2012-05-18T12:40:00Z

The new state budget — which reduced financing to the Houston Independent School District for the 2011-12 school year by more than $77 million — forced Mr. Hardin to eliminate the school’s choir program. Texas Monthly: ?Thunder Soul? Documentary Features the Kashmere Stage Band 2011-10-09T05:48:35Z

“Transmission,” with lyrics in English, turns them into a choir with an electronic foundation, invoking the power of music: “We sing and our tears dry/Facing a clearer sky.” The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Come for the soaring music of the choir — one of Britain’s finest — or bring your lunch to the Inns’ quiet gardens above the Thames. Seven Places in Europe We Call Home 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Academy of Arts and Science placed second for A high school choir and B high school combo. Seattle-area school jazz bands win top awards 2013-04-30T19:08:55Z

For many, the most obvious option is their local church choir. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

My mom took me to Disney World, and then I got into this choir. "Black people, we are the ultimate outsider": Justin Simien on "radical" take on "Haunted Mansion" 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

With the church's help, the choir resumed presenting a full concert season in 2009-2010. Tudor Choir chooses Tallis' grand Spem in alium for 20th anniversary 2012-10-26T14:31:05Z

As a young man recently out of the Army and studying finance at the University of Tennessee, where he was the president of his fraternity, he was also the choir conductor at his church. At 91, John Cullum Is Ready to Try Something New 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

But Seeger is the star of the disc, even when a children's choir and the celebrity guest stars step to the mic. Review: Seeger remembers Woody, offers new tunes 2012-09-24T16:55:54Z

Personally, I prefer even the fiercest debate to silence or to the humming of the choir. Motherlode Blog: 'Be Nice on the Internet' Week 2012-01-09T20:50:30Z

She learned to sing in church in a gospel choir and as a teenager performed in a short-lived psychedelic rock group called the Crow. Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63 2012-05-17T23:47:03Z

Contemporary-gospel music and traditional African music and dance by African children’s choir, 9 and 11 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z

While enrolled at Alton Convent School in Hampshire, England, she sang in the choir, and in her early teens, she listened to disco and dressed like a punk, a look she said was “really unfashionable.” Alison Goldfrapp Dials Up Her Own Disco Fantasy 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

The 37-year-old appears with the Military Wives choir on Sing, the official Diamond Jubilee song. In pictures: Royal arts gathering 2012-05-24T08:53:08Z

The choir of 24 singers is renowned, particularly for its interpretations of music from the past hundred years. Latvian Radio Choir demonstrates its might as a ‘great musical power’ 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

But Webster based it on her grandfather, Arthur Wake, a hot-shot choir director who spent his final years mentoring singers in rural Kentucky. On TV’s New Musicals, Every Episode Is Opening Night 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

For all its narrative of blood and fire and Old Testament justice, reggae needed a heavenly choir, and that, assuredly, was the Congos. Burt Bacharach, Leo Blanco, the Congos: this week's new live music 2013-06-22T05:00:17Z

“Maybe it’s a big ask for one song from one choir,” Gibson said. Gospel choir leader says royal wedding song marked cultural shift 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

As they said their vows, standing before Rabbi Dean Shapiro and about 50 guests at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, quail chattered and choir music drifted in from another event at the outdoor space. For Two Frequent Fliers, a Trip Down the Matrimonial Runway 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

As a girl, she sang with her sisters in a Catholic church choir in Maryhill – the roots of her interest in the human voice. Susan Philipsz: Lament for a drowned love 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z

They informed me that the church choir needed a director and a piano player. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

The vocal soloists, drawn from the choir, ranged from adequate to good. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z

During rehearsals in Harlem last week, Higginson led the Sing Harlem choir, instructing them to stand tall, jive to the rhythm, and hit sharp staccato notes. ‘Mama, I Want to Sing!’ Returns for 40th Anniversary 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

When Micah Hendler first went to Jerusalem with the idea of starting a choir of Israeli and Palestinian high-schoolers, some thought his notion naive at best. In conflict zone, raising young Palestinian and Jewish voices 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As a dancer, I’m used to responding to music, but here it was also to the text, the incense, the choir, even the suitcases that become percussive instruments. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Show choirs have started all over the world, and there have been Glee flash mobs – bursts of formation dancing – in Kuala Lumpur, Tel Aviv, Rome, Madrid, Brighton. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z

As with the BBC Two series, The Choir US will see Malone develop the skills of 10 choirs across America. Malone takes Choir to the States 2012-07-23T13:44:39Z

The rest of the text, often submerged in densely beautiful polyphony, mostly sounded indistinct during the performance by the Philadelphia choir the Crossing and the Prism Quartet, conducted by Donald Nally. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

She has found her home in Waynesboro, singing in a choir, serving on the board of the local concert association, and attending the Unitarian Universalist fellowship. Real Life Can Be Raw, in Marriage and Death 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Three pieces from Glassworks and an extract from The Photographer saw her using a keyboard to sing harmonies with herself and sounding like a choir of angels. Philip Glass – review 2012-12-16T18:15:01Z

And that he’s a devout Mormon who still goes to church in San Clemente, Calif., and counts choir practice among his music influences. A $200,000-a-Night D.J. Known as Kaskade Is Really Ryan Raddon, a Mormon 2011-11-09T23:24:42Z

“God, those sequins were awful,” he said, recalling the choir costumes. The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ?Glee? 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

DEC. 14-16 Featuring comedians, live music, choirs, specialty acts and surprise guest artists. 32 pop music concerts for the 2012 holiday season 2012-11-14T23:34:04Z

Nearly all of Mr. Rutter’s works are for choirs and rooted in the choral practice of the Church of England, which has featured in his life since he was a boy. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

As well as a string quartet playing in four helicopters, the work featured two choirs and flying solo instrumentalists. Staging of Stockhausen's helicopter string quartet scores key prize 2013-05-14T21:00:01Z

I dropped my son off at soccer, prepared dinner, shuttled him to choir, then walked to the park with my daughter, where she ran into two teammates. Motherlode Blog: I Believe in Family Dinner. We Just Don’t Achieve It Very Often. 2013-06-20T20:01:36Z

With a gospel choir storyline, this was always going to be a tough sell to UK audiences, and it's fair to say that distributor Warner Bros didn't exactly bet the farm on the marketing push. Ice Age 4: Continental Drift floats off UK box office radar 2012-07-03T15:57:44Z

Embedded in the planks are speakers, which play looped recordings of a droning choir, whose low bass notes contrast with the higher-frequency sound of the bell room. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The tone colours were vivid on Morton's New Orleans Bump and Ellington's The Mooche, both focusing on the leader's eloquent talking-horn wah-wah technique, and the thrilling Morton innovation of the soaring clarinet choir. Wynton Marsalis 2010-06-20T21:16:00Z

After graduation, he headed east to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering and directed the school’s gospel choir. Meet the management guru who is trying to fix the D.C. arts commission 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

So is the problem the blokes, or is it the choirs? Why don't men join choirs? 2013-06-13T14:46:00Z

From Feb. 4 to 8, the theater’s youth choirs will stage a new opera adapted from the singer Björk’s vaporous album “Medulla.” Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In each city, local choruses volunteer to take the part of the choir. ‘The Events’ Uses Local Choirs for Vocals, Minus a Script 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The lyrics feature languages from Arabic to Zulu, as well as McFerrin's own invented words, and he's partnered by a fine local choir. This week's new live music 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The choir tend to visit Haiti once or twice a year, and were there playing some shows just weeks before the quake. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

It began with the M2 Music Movement choir delivering a stirring rendition of “Come Holy Spirit,” as members of the couple’s wedding party started walking down an aisle littered with white rose petals and candles. To Win a Supermodel’s Hand, 4 Goats and a Cola Nut 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The children of the Shchedryk choir, which will perform at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, have been hit hard by the war. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

His music drew on, among many other things, the fanfaring keyboard chords of trance, the blips of electro and a classical choir, none of them in predictable doses. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Guglielmo Marconi: I can make the airwaves sing like heavenly choirs. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The soloists, 13 in all, were drawn from the ranks of the vibrant choir. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

The 4,335 singers of all ages and from nearly all of the city's professional and amateur choirs sang from the steps of St. Isaac's Cathedral before thousands of spectators under an intermittent rain. Russian choir of 4,335 performs in St. Petersburg 2013-05-26T13:06:09Z

Near the conclusion of Monday's Mass, a choir sang, "Our wish is unification." Pope Francis, wrapping up visit, urges Korean reconciliation 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

And then there was the contrived political correctness of the "Chinese Turkey" scene, which transformed the "Deck the Hores With Bores of Horey" song of the original to a professional a capella harmonized choir. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Boyle, who used to sing in her church choir, is the antithesis of the modern celebrity with her dowdy appearance and advancing years. Susan Boyle expected to sing for the Pope 2010-06-10T12:52:00Z

“I felt this connection with the house, the musicians, the choir, with the whole team,” Dudamel recalled in an interview on Thursday at the company’s ornate Palais Garnier theater. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, many members of the choir scattered across the country. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

So why not build a real story around him, instead of offering one quick flashback of them together, then focusing on Rachel, improbably asking the choir girls for advice about sex? Can Madonna get "Glee" into the groove? 2010-04-21T05:01:00Z

Dense yet light, with biting diction and dramatic dynamic shadings, the Trinity choir was particularly revelatory in the great, dark numbers of the oratorio’s second part. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z

If you’re a singer and you want to be in a very comfortable community choir, this is not the one. Eric Banks: Esoterics founder an explorer of new vocal worlds 2013-05-04T14:34:47Z

And it ends with the children’s choir singing “Remember me,” as a soulful refrain. Jimmy Greene’s 'Beautiful Life' Is a Eulogy to a Daughter 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Latterly she founded and conducted a choir in East Anglia whose concerts continue to raise funds for good causes. Anne Gee obituary 2011-01-24T18:40:14Z

With their dynamic surges and sudden octave-high leaps, the Wards and their evolving cast of singers, wearing rhinestone-studded choir gowns, would pack sports arenas and convention halls around the country. Willa Ward, Gospel Singer, Dies at 91 2012-08-23T02:11:34Z

The choir was the Mariisnky Theatre Chorus, whose idiomatic Russian was a bonus, but who often sounded oddly underwhelming in the Albert Hall in a first half comprised of intriguing rarities. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z

He joined his Catholic-school choir at 14 when his voice changed, then dropped out of school and worked at odd jobs for a while. Pop: José James’s ‘No Beginning No End’ 2013-01-18T23:37:45Z

“Being part of the choir for me ... It’s about just being part of a group of people that kind of get you and understand you.” Bon Jovi, Prince Harry and military choir launch charity single 'Unbroken' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

On top, Ms. Flanigan sings extended tones, making them digitally repeat as she builds up her own choir and creates her own gradual harmonic movement. New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The festival, which is planned for Nov. 3 through Nov. 19, will feature, in addition to the three conductors’ ensembles, over 50 orchestras, chamber music groups, choirs and jazz ensembles. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Over two hours after the ticketed start time, the 56-minute “Nebuchadnezzar” began with the choir filing onstage and beginning to chant as a figure in a royal-blue outfit raved, writhed and screamed in the middle. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Donny was in the choir, too, and they had several classes together, to which he rarely showed up. Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

A. My father is an opera singer, and when I was born, he was accepted into the choir of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, which was called the Kirov at that time. Snapshot: The Soprano Olga Peretyatko’s Met Debut 2014-04-11T21:18:32Z

She also formed and conducted a choir there consisting almost entirely of indigenous people. Anne Gee obituary 2011-01-24T18:40:14Z

Morgan's own sons aren't interested in joining him in the choir, in part because it requires a significant time commitment: rehearsals are twice-weekly. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

They are members of Hallmark of Harmony, a South Yorkshire-based barbershop choir who sport an extraordinary look that is part wine waiter, part Smurf. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

In the acoustically vibrant church the radiant sound of the choir thrillingly enveloped you. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Generations of families hired him to document baptisms, weddings, baseball games, choir performances, grocery store ribbon-cuttings, political fundraisers, airport arrivals and funerals. Antiques: Edward Lycett, Designer for Faience Company, Brooklyn 2011-05-26T22:02:06Z

Before Mr. Battle began dance training in high school, he was on a musical path, playing the piano and singing in the church choir. Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey?s New Leader 2010-05-07T13:42:00Z

A few minutes later Frazer wraps up the exercise and tells her singers, “We went from a volunteer choir to an opera choir there, so I was happy to see that.” Seattle Opera’s new production tells the stories of soldiers — and features a chorus of local veterans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Major recent commissions have included a multifaith Requiem to commemorate the destruction of Dresden; a piece for the Rascher Saxophone Quartet and women’s choir; and “Gogol,” a three-act opera set to her own libretto. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

I was not the best singer, but was told that I had a good “choir voice.” Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tyson turned full-face to us, raised her arms and swayed in encouragement, like an impassioned choir master. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z

In a nod to its liturgical origins, the large choir entered solemnly to the tolling of a distant bell. Review | In Washington’s crowded choral scene, too much is just enough 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

He and 15 members of the church’s choir traveled from New York to Washington to stage a protest as part of Appalachia Rising, a campaign to end mountaintop-removal coal mining. Reverend Billy?s Revelation: A Role for Money 2010-10-08T22:42:00Z

So when I first heard about choirs singing live in cars, it struck, well, a chord. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

She began singing with church and radio choirs but dropped out of school at 13 — partly out of boredom, she said in her 1986 autobiography — and took on odd jobs. Maureen Forrester, Canadian Contralto, Dies at 79 2010-06-18T03:55:00Z

He helped start the careers of Kirk Franklin, whose choir sang at Nelson Mandela’s funeral in 2013, and Yolanda Adams, who in 2009 was named the No. 1 gospel artist of the decade by Billboard. ‘Bobby Jones Gospel’ and Its Strongest Voice Prepare to Say Farewell 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

The words of ministers were amplified by choirs and underlined by songs that sought redemption, if not in this world then possibly in the next. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

I've been singing from a young age in the choir and in school, but I never saw it as a path as much as I enjoyed it. BBC Sound of 2014: Sampha 2014-01-07T07:50:26Z

High school choir member Kyle Watkins said it was a chance for him and other Newtown kids to experience something positive, to express themselves and to feel like they were helping. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z

Frantsuzhan has dreams of becoming a music teacher and a show choir concert director. 17-year-old Ukrainian student says if he doesn't stay in America, he'll 'die in war' 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Still, it was what my parents didn’t say that hurt far worse than the slur Wes had flung in my direction during choir practice. Honey, we’re praying for you 2013-03-31T01:00:00Z

The only native group represented here was the choir Pomerium in a modest concert in Weill Recital Hall. English Ensembles Crown a Festival of Early Music 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

The curious thing is, we got in touch with his son-in-law, and he remembers me taking my guitar with me and practicing beforehand, waiting for everyone to turn up for the choir practice. Few Words and a Whole Lotta Pictures 2010-09-07T22:46:00Z

Dramaturgically, the singers are meant to function as both choir and Greek chorus. ‘The Events’ Uses Local Choirs for Vocals, Minus a Script 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

It’s based on Mr. Piper’s best-selling inspirational book and seems most interested in preaching to the choir. Movie Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But it was as a whole — diction crisp, textures nuanced — that this choir made its greatest impact in this strange, lovely work. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Inside, he's swept up by the joyous voices of the choir, but it's the flamboyant preacher — clad in a crisp, white suit with dollar bills pinned to his lapels — who seals the deal. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

It was in this large but modest looking, red-brick house of worship on a quiet backstreet near downtown Newark where Houston's career began as a soloist in a gospel choir in the 1970s. Whitney Houston mourned at New Jersey church of her youth 2012-02-12T16:29:55Z

Media Vita," Protheroe says, "Church music of the pre-Reformation period in England was written for specialist choirs of men and boys who had outstanding abilities in vocal range and musical intelligence. Group devoted to Byzantine works reaches West with Sept. 11 concert in Seattle 2010-09-10T04:01:00Z

The voice, of course, is not made for an angels’ choir; it’s a powerful, lived-in instrument, a melodic gravel road. Review | No doubt about it. Bruce Springsteen belongs on Broadway. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

From speakers set up in the chapel choir, you hear a woman’s mellifluous voice reading passages from Ms. Sindler’s diaries in an English translation from the original French. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I remember it, most of the contestants were singers, but there were also ventriloquists, jugglers, musicians, bands, tap dancers, synchronized dancers, baton twirlers, accordion players, comics, choirs, barbershop quartets and the like. 2010-01-12T01:20:00Z

Her career ambitions, and her decision to tour with her famous brother, got her booted from a statewide Pentecostal choir. Mable John, Soul Singer With a Star-Studded Résumé, Dies at 91 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

And in Sparkle’s big final number at a preposterous solo concert debut with a full gospel choir, to a packed house after minimal preparation, she delivers. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z

“I mean, we saw it in school. We saw it in church choirs. We saw women conducting all the time, every day. But we didn’t see them conducting Brahms or Beethoven.” Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s just an amazing place. I’ve always loved doing choir here.” A funky Flea celebrates his birthday, his school’s founding 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

There were passages that sounded like distant choirs and gentle patters of percussion; there were slow washes of harmonic tension and resolution. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Music technology played a role in the choir’s — and thus the church’s — march toward the mainstream. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

Ms. Wilson was born in Fort Worth in 1948 and grew up singing in her church choir, according to a biography provided by Mr. Riggs. Ruby Wilson, Singer Known as Queen of Beale Street, Dies at 68 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

After a break for the pandemic, they restarted the tour this year, using a symphony and a choir to accent a nine-piece band that sometimes features five guitarists playing simultaneously. Review: The Eagles put on a bucket list kind of night at Climate Pledge Arena 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Even when Carey’s voice takes center stage on songs such as “O Holy Night,” the choir provides the necessary context, the sonic springboard from which she launches to tremulous heights and to which she returns. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

A musical prodigy as a youth, she honed her skills in the choir at St. Louis Union Memorial Church and by performing Chopin on the piano at ladies’ tea parties. Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Was it sung by Journey themselves, the cast of Glee, a fan on YouTube, a choir of schoolchildren or a drunk friend on a karaoke machine? Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

This English a cappella choir will also sing a handful of Victoria motets and responsories. The Week Ahead: Mar. 27 ? April 2 2011-03-25T14:27:11Z

"I told them we were a choir," she says. | Rachel Zeffira 2013-01-30T14:04:41Z

A choir singing from a loft above the auditorium chandelier creates a cognitive dissonance, with another performing simultaneously onstage. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Bellevue Square and other shops and restaurants are open extended hours through the holiday shopping season, and Bellevue Square features school choirs, vocal ensembles and musical performances in its center court Nov. 29-Dec. 'Magic Season' launches in downtown Bellevue 2011-11-22T23:44:05Z

On Tuesday, the festival features military choirs at the Kennedy Center, followed by a gospel showcase Wednesday. Kennedy Center opens weeklong choral festival 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Still, Arena’s championing of the play is a healthy development for an art form all too consumed with preaching to the ideological choir. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

He sang in his church choir and taught himself guitar to accompany the spirituals of the True Love and Gospel Singers, a neighborhood group. Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, New Orleans Musical Luminary, Dies at 79 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Vivaldi’s many works composed with all-women musicians and choirs in mind. How to get into classical music? Watch a movie, go to live performances and more tips 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir and I remember loving it. The devil inside 2011-08-06T23:04:04Z

Of particular note is the huge choir, which included some 1,200 children from Venezuela’s remarkable system of youth choruses. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

My grandparents liked singing, and my mum is a teacher and choir conductor. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z

Ms. Cabello, the former member of Fifth Harmony whose solo debut album just went to No. 1, stepped out of Kesha’s backup choir to speak up for Dreamers. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

His mother was a piano teacher, and he was in a church choir by the time he was 5. Johnny Mann, leader of Grammy-winning TV singing group, dies at 85

There, he set his runway outside, just beyond a group of the original white-frame houses in the center’s backyard, where a 40-person gospel choir was arrayed to sing his collection out. On this Runway, Black Lives Matter 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert gracefully shaped the wistful passage for a choir of woodwinds at the opening of the great slow movement. Critic’s Notebook: New York Philharmonic Performs in the Parks 2013-07-11T21:34:28Z

The son of a choir director, he revealed a knack for music and started playing guitar and other instruments while in high school, before running away from home at 15. Jack Clement, Producer and Country Songwriter, Dies at 82 2013-08-09T00:17:06Z

FRI Music of the Nativity by choirs and orchestra, carols by candlelight, 7:30 p.m. Community Datebook calendar 2011-12-15T20:59:07Z

A choir chants: a faint, wordless gauze, punctuated by the strangled stabs of a double bass. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Few choirs sing Bach with such loving attention to the text and such exquisitely floating textures. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

The “Superstar” overture alone — surely one of the most unsettling rock record openers, let alone musical overtures — features harrowing electric guitar, synth, strings, boisterous brass, and a choir dropped in from a horror movie. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

They replace all the slick bros at the poker table and, taken together, make quite a paternal choir. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The choir's natural inclination to accentuate the positive means it sails clear of more treacherous political waters, including the US embargo of Cuba. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

But this is home to the oldest amateur male-voice choir in Wales, which I'm watching rehearse on a quiet Monday evening in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

His mother, an amateur pianist who sang in the church choir, introduced him at 3 to musical scales on the piano. Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

But the finished product is altogether more sumptuous, its exotic instrumentation augmented, at one point, by a Bulgarian choir. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's eerie inspirations 2014-01-22T07:24:33Z

The last iteration of Pulsations, a festival that Pichon established in Bordeaux, France, set Brahms’s “A German Requiem” in a Nazi-era submarine base, the choir roaming the audience. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

West asked the responsive crowd, which included members of his roving choir, whose exaltations blended with and encouraged those of his fans. Kanye West Teases ‘Jesus Is King,’ a New Album With No Cursing 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

The King’s Singers, a vocal ensemble formed by former members of the choir, was called up as a replacement. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Can't you imagine the choir singing a really restrained version of "In the Still of the Night" that starts very, very softly and builds? How to make "Glee" sing in its second season 2010-06-09T11:40:00Z

Reached by e-mail, Wainwright was far more sanguine about his forthcoming “duet”: “What singer doesn’t want to sing with a big choir?” he said. Breathing New Life Into Pop Songs with Choir! Choir! Choir! 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, "Whitney, Whitney, Whitney." Whitney Houston's voice still soars 2012-02-19T11:51:16Z

“Give Up the Ghost” offers the comforts of an acoustic guitar and a wish for benediction — “Gather up the pitiful in your arms” — against a phantom choir of Mr. Yorke, shakily harmonizing with himself. Critic?s Notebook: Radiohead Surprises With Early Release 2011-02-18T23:25:50Z

On Sept. 29 the chamber choir The Crossing will perform a program that explores the line between patriotism and nationalism with the string players from of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Peak Performances Announces Residency and Upcoming Season 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike last year, when Christina Aguilera tried to make the song all about her and flubbed a line in the process, Clarkson gave a strong, dignified reading backed by martial drumming and a children’s choir. Madonna sells, sells, sells at Super Bowl halftime 2012-02-06T00:37:00Z

Performances will include ballet, a church choir and the Highgate Choral Society. In Transit: At Fair, the Flavors of London Suburbia 2011-06-13T10:00:42Z

Perhaps they were a palate cleanser, but either way, Raf Simons’s electric tones at Jil Sander were like a revelation, and the designers who followed joined the choir. Paris Fashion Week: Spring Fashion?s Operatic Season 2010-10-06T21:56:00Z

The look is stark, and the colors are drained, the whole washed in an eerie, echoing sound design of plinking pianos and ghostly choirs. In ‘Asmodexia,’ Evil Infects Souls Like a Plague 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Dudamel is familiar with the complexities of leading an orchestra, singers and a choir; he is also the music director for the Paris Opera. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

“We knew we were singing the message of America to the world,” said Vernie Swenson, 90, who was in the choir and on the platform that day with his wife, Shirley, 87. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

She is adamant that the Trans Chorus be a financially viable, premier arts organization that will eventually support non-audition community choirs and education programs too. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The roots for this moment can be traced back to an album celebrating its 50th anniversary — “Right On Be Free,” the debut by an African-American youth choir called the Voices of East Harlem. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Yet he embraced elements such as a gospel choir or horn section, and incorporated these flourishes seamlessly. George Michael’s magical fluidity: Remembering the pop icon’s modern and progressive sound 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Of course, it helps to know what choirs are singing about and why the words mattered so deeply to the composer. Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps 2010-08-25T10:30:00Z

Another member of the choir runs out behind him and draws a box in the air around his head. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The nuns sing out with gusto, once Deloris revamps the choir with a disco-meets-Philly-soul repertoire instead of the Motown oldies in the film. Touring ‘Sister Act’ has more sass than soul 2013-08-21T21:55:05Z

There will be room for a full orchestra of 150 and a choir of up to 250 plus a small audience. Southbank centre unveils ambitious £100m redevelopment 2013-03-06T17:30:05Z

Choruses, like those in “Make Me…,” sometimes layer her voice into an ecstatic choir. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Reflective passages lead to celestial phrases for the children’s choir. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

At the other end of the age scale, the Young@Heart Chorus, a Massachusetts choir of over-70s, were the subject of an acclaimed 2007 documentary. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

This choir, under the direction of Karen P. Thomas, has a sound of such polished purity that it's almost velvety in its austerity. Seattle Pro Musica's 'Nowell' is pure vocal beauty 2010-12-16T21:52:11Z

“It wasn’t just the buildings,” he said of the difference in sound between the two choirs. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Everything is turned to 11 in 1985: the towering crest, the amped-up gospel choir, the electric delivery, the fake ending two-thirds of the way through followed by LaBelle taking everybody back to church. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

At the end of the Crucifixus, the orchestra held the dark final note for a hushed beat or two past the choir’s cutoff, to chilling effect. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The son of a construction worker, Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and grew up in Willow Run, Michigan, singing in a church choir as a child. Nickolas Ashford obituary 2011-08-23T14:25:23Z

Feldman’s piece — scored for percussion, celesta, viola, choir and soprano — was an abstract analogue to Rothko’s canvases. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

They accept no money for their work, though they accept donations of batteries and the like, and encourage choirs to donate to charities supporting out-of-work musicians. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

“I started in the choir when I was 16, and then I started to sing lead, which was nerve-racking,” she said. Samara Joy’s Voice (and Social Media) Is Helping Jazz Find Fresh Ears 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

If you’ve seen that show, you know there’s a choir of children who sit onstage all the time and sing occasionally — I was in that. You’ve Seen Mary Elizabeth Winstead Onscreen. Get Ready for Her Onstage. 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

And a choir sang an original song written about the pandemic hiatus, “We Will Be Back,” by Allen René Louis. ‘We’ll Be Back,’ Broadway Says, on Shutdown Anniversary 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Martin Luther King Jr., dressed as a young slave, sat in the choir’s first row, singing along,” Eig writes. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

She conducted her school choir while a student, but her true conversion to vocal music came during a recital by the glamorous soprano Victoria de los Ángeles in Wellington. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z

While a choir sings a fragment from The Fleetwoods' 1959 song Mr Blue, all sorts of desirable goods rack up – including shots of abstract Perspex sculpture, bronze busts, and a Kukkapuro armchair. Artist of the week 147: Elizabeth Price 2011-07-21T15:21:38Z

Marsh, like Lewis, knows how to connect with a choir and is clearly steeped in music. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Christiansen, who studied music in Leipzig, Germany, brought intellectual rigor, spiritual depth and superior singing to the Christian liberal-arts school’s church choir. St. Olaf Choir to bring Bach and the unexpected to Seattle show 2013-01-24T23:13:49Z

He disputes the claim that there is a current lack of political work, but asks: "Do political plays become irrelevant when they continually preach to the choir?" Noises off: Playing politics can still be seriously dramatic 2010-09-08T15:22:00Z

A small children’s choir will be on hand to sing period Christmas carols. A 19th-Century-Style 'Christmas Carol' on the Upper East Side 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

"It's visual, it's audible, and it's got all these emotions involved," said Sibeko, who grew up in a Cape Town household led by her great grandmother, who conducted African choirs. Nelson Mandela opera comes to Johannesburg 2011-08-12T17:56:09Z

In high school, Campbell joined the Roberta Martin Singers, a touring gospel group that emerged from the church's youth choir. Gospel singer Delois Barrett Campbell dies at 85 2011-08-03T12:08:10Z

The children’s choirs that occupied the front rows of the towering risers sang entirely from memory. ArtsBeat: Mahler Megasymphony: The Onslaught 2012-02-19T18:26:18Z

I used to be part of this choir that my cousin ran, and we had a performance in one of the Sunday services. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z

"What you hear is like human voices, or choirs from heaven," Wilson says. Robert Wilson takes a walk with angels in Norfolk 2012-08-22T17:00:01Z

The minister is met with the same mockery as Gabriel was: though some parishioners listen attentively, others yawn, frown, and grumble, and some members of the choir read a newspaper. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“At my father’s church, I used to take the tambourine and do collection and my mother used to sing in the choir. That’s where I really got my training from singing.” Charlie Thomas, a Singing Drifter Nearly All His Life, Dies at 85 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

The New Year began as a choir filed in, singing Kirk Franklin’s “Wanna Be Happy?” A Broadway Couple Says ‘I Do’ to Great Applause 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

The choir and orchestra sound rich, warm and nuanced throughout, faithfully captured in a splendid recording. CD Reviews: Robin Ticciati Leads Bavarian Radio Choir and Bamberg Symphony 2010-04-02T13:48:00Z

Although it seemed like an ordinary choir rehearsal, there was more at stake. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Using nothing more than mics, pedal-controlled looping devices and his voice, he conjured beats, brimstone preachers, gospel choirs and explosive electro, ending unexpectedly with a moving version of Strawberry Fields Forever. London jazz festival 2012: highlights from days three and four 2012-11-13T16:30:00Z

Many of the most arresting stretches of the concert were those involving the excellent Chapelle de Québec choir. Review: A New Conductor Inspires the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

"It's epic music. Violins going, timpanis going crazy, men, women and children's choirs going. I can take it and record it in a bunch of different ways with different intensities." Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Amy Beth Kirsten set her “strange pilgrims” for choir and orchestra, given its premiere here, to one of her poems, using material she discarded while writing other scores. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Offers Premieres at Zankel Hall 2014-02-21T22:20:50Z

There are also tunic collars for choir members, veils for covering the chalice, banners, crowns, canopies, cases for patriarchal staffs, altar curtains and kerchiefs for the handling of crosses. Middle East: A Culture's History Written in Thread 2011-03-30T20:31:12Z

The angels are a choir, and I one tongue. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Performances from the 12-strong cast, with community choirs joining them for the final number, are excellent; the production does what it has to, but has little to work on. Postcards from Dumbworld ? review 2010-10-22T21:31:00Z

I sang in the choir there; singing in a space like that was amazing. Portrait of the artist: Nigel Coates, architect 2010-10-11T21:29:00Z

She received a formal music education at an all-girls Catholic school in Brooklyn in the 1980s, studying theory and singing in a classical choir. Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Houston, 48, rose from singing in a church choir to become one of the best-selling and most admired performers of her generation. Whitney Houston funeral set for Saturday 2012-02-14T15:20:00Z

The festival opens on 16 July with Mahler's Eighth Symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand", performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the massed forces of six choirs, including three cathedral choirs. Proms to hold two Last Nights 2010-04-22T12:42:00Z

At Mass the next morning, O’Toole sees the same man conducting the choir, and he finds that “the melody was like a meandering river, slow and serene, yet utterly implacable.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

When she invokes the soul, a gospel choir arrives to affirm her inner strength, as if anyone could doubt it. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

There was staggering singing from the newly formed BBC Youth Choir, its members drawn from choirs round the country. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z

She attended church regularly — along with youth groups and church camp — and sang in the choir, where she learned to love building vocal harmonies. Hannah Jadagu Turns Small Moments Into Big Pop Songs 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

MON Gospel choir celebrates King's birthday, 2 p.m. Community calendar 2012-01-11T22:32:04Z

Though the album fizzled in England, the rock opera with a full orchestra and gospel choir took off in America, climbing to No. 1 on the Billboard charts by February 1971. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Many of the current members were taken along by their male relatives, including Dewi Morgan, 64, a former tinplate works engineer, who has been in the choir for 35 years. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

The choir members are also products of Cuban music schools, where the precision of classical technique doesn’t restrain the power of island traditions. Music Review: Cuban Visitors Share Sounds and Moves of Their Roots 2011-06-05T22:07:40Z

The pilgrims gathered under the dome in the crossing to sing and then took seats in the choir rows to sing some more. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The massed choir presents the crowd scenes, Jesus’s supporters and detractors, and at one point, an inner rumination by Judas on a text from Jonah. A Carnegie Hall commemoration for Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

He also wrote for the Minnesota Opera, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School, and for organ competitions, youth choirs and private patrons. Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

I sang in a choir and took good care of my throat and when I caught a head cold in February 1995, during my junior year of college, I took tea and herbal lozenges. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z

Together they stood as a Howard choir sang the national anthem and the Negro national anthem. Does this face look familiar? Valerie Jarrett’s ancestor honored with stamp. 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a carpenter and a singer in Jewish choirs. Irving Fields, bandleader who fed postwar mania for Yiddish mambo, dies at 101 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Theirs was, oddly enough, the most appropriate response to the sweet, dull performance of Chanticleer, the genial San Francisco men’s a cappella choir. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z

The arrangement accentuated the song’s soulfulness, with a chorus of backup singers approximating an ecstatic choir, especially as Mr. Michael moved into the song’s bridge around the four-minute mark. Watch George Michael Perform Live: 5 Memorable Videos 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

"I'm not a big fan of fluff-and-stuff music," said the singer, who began performing with her sister at the Evangelistic Church of God in Christ, on El Segundo Boulevard, where their mother was choir director. Erica Campbell of gospel duo Mary Mary follows her own path 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Norman O. Scribner, founder and artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, one of the region’s preeminent symphonic choirs, died March 22 at his home in the District. Norman Scribner, who founded D.C. Choral Arts Society, dies at 79 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Phoenix sounds like a film score, the exuberant title track includes an unnecessary school choir, while the thoughtful and lyrical Rosie is another reminder of Niebla's exquisite guitar work. Eduardo Niebla: My Gypsy Waltz ? review 2011-01-13T23:30:01Z

Conducted by music director Andrew Carwood, the choir’s 21 boys and 12 men dove into sacred 16th century works by Thomas Tallis and selections from William Byrd’s “Mass for Four Voices.” A triumphant return across the pond 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

While few music educators would ever condone blackface, countless teachers, choir and band directors, and music publishers continue to teach and print the songs associated with 19th century minstrel performance. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Most of the 21 members of the Sandy Hook choir are either current or former students of the school, and many lost friends in the attack. Talking Heads members help Sandy Hook schoolchildren with charity single 2013-01-16T11:41:20Z

Bette Midler belting out "Ukulele Lady" on national television, backed by a ukulele choir, helped bring the instrument's sound to the masses. Hawaii considers making it official with ukulele 2014-02-13T03:48:19Z

But, as a kid, I never did choir, and didn't sing. Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H-Mart" is a food memoir so painfully delicious, your eyes water 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

He became music director of the Cathedral Choral Society, a 145-voice choir that rehearses and often performs at the cathedral, in 1985. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams said that the music for each choir could be performed independently or even sequentially. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

His performance with a choir on the Grammy Awards, in fact, felt like a bona fide gospel concert. 7 reasons why Chance the Rapper is a star 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

At another, she joined a choir in a rousing ode to Alexander's homeland.  Mystery of Alexander the Great-era tomb holds Greeks in thrall 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

But it was in aid of Shelter and the choir was short of altos. A stranger's generous, unexpected remarks helped me deal with bereavement 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

At Roosevelt High School in Dayton, he was a student choir director and orchestra conductor. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a live evensong earlier this year, Hereford's choir broadcast Allegri's celebrated Misere with glorious aplomb, further evidence of the splendid form of the host cathedral. St John Passion – review 2012-07-26T15:43:26Z

Because of the war, the choir left Ukraine on Nov. 19 for Warsaw, where they were given rehearsal space inside the Chopin University of Music and obtained visas to travel to the United States. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Christmas Eve services start at 4 p.m. with the children’s choirs and Wallace Hall Choir performing Bach and carols. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Brown went on to play drums in a gospel choir in Kenya and in Gainesville. Mecca for modern music 2012-05-29T13:02:04Z

Ai isn’t just preaching to the choir members, he is rubbing their shoulders and whispering affirmation in their ears: We care about injustice. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Sperling used a full complement of 125 singers, as Shaw would probably not have done in Bach, and he set this hefty choir against the period instruments of New York Baroque Incorporated. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

A conductor and composer, Mr. Wachner oversaw Trinity’s critically praised choir, Baroque orchestra and contemporary-music ensemble, which together present hundreds of events each year. Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Her showstopping performance of “Walk Him Up the Stairs,” a gospel solo with choir, paved the way for her Broadway career. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

“I started doing arrangements for my choir and wrote a couple songs that we sang in the talent show,” Sankaram recalled with a bubbly laugh. Her opera helps a Pakistani rape survivor find a louder voice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Academy won first in the A High School choir category. Seattle jazz singers and players score in Reno 2011-04-12T16:32:04Z

It calls for a huge orchestra, offstage brass and woodwinds, three choirs, five soloists and a narrator. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

At the screen separating the nave from the choir, there is an enormous monument to Isaac Newton, with a carving depicting his many discoveries. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Fleming called the students in the choir an "abundant group of talented young singers." Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming perform with Chicago choir 2012-03-19T20:02:20Z

In some of the songs it’s clear the producers are eking out all they can from what recorded vocals Jackson left behind, stretching them with backup choirs, guests and cut-and-paste repetitions. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z

The solution was the rock songs he loved and they unveiled their new direction in the final round of a choir competition in Canada in 2001. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

A child choir performing Jerusalem comes into view. The Hard Sell: Plusnet 2012-08-03T23:05:19Z

A drop in the number of boys trained would also mean fewer bass and tenor singers for adult choirs, he added. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The score turns to “Balm in Gilead” and then to a very square-sounding choir singing “Troubled Water” in a different key. Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Behind him, a choir delivered stabs of vocal religion. Review: Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo,’ Songs of Praise and Self 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Hometown” builds powerfully with a gospel choir wrapped around a towering guitar solo. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

A choir group from South Korea soon breaks into Luther’s famous hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God,” and is quickly drowned out by the drilling noises shaking the foundation of the church itself. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

As a substitute, and with the support of a small choir, he performed an anthem of redemption and resuscitation he wrote for his musical hometown of Asbury Park — “My City of Ruins.” Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Attracting an oversize audience of African-American women of a certain age, Perry may still be preaching to the choir, but the choral voice is loud and strong. G.I. Joe: Resurrection 2013-03-31T20:25:26Z

The lyrics have been translated and performed in various genres: jazz and opera in English, metal in Germany, choir by French school children and pop in Swedish among others. ‘Baraye,’ the Anthem of Iran’s Protest Movement, Wins a Grammy 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

One source he drew on was a set of serenades for male a cappella choir from the 1970s — one of them addressed to beer. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

As always the men of the choir were sturdy, the boys delightful in their engagement and spirit. Music Review: Exploring Variations in a Christmastime Favorite 2010-12-08T23:09:00Z

Consisting of 11 movements for a cappella choir, it is on a scale with the great sacred works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, though in a slightly more advanced idiom, and is quite simply beautiful. Classical Playlist: Carlos Kalmar, Alexander Lingas and More 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, that quirky choir will gather to honor the giant instrument they love. TubaChristmas presents holiday music at its most sonorous 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The choir from King's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta will sing. Thousands gather to dedicate King Memorial 2011-10-16T12:33:00Z

Three soloists will also join the choir for select pieces. Seattle Peace Chorus to tackle Neruda’s ‘Canto General’ June 1 2013-05-31T18:51:22Z

Name the choir that sings on the Argosy ship in the finale of the annual Christmas Ship Festival on Sunday, Dec. 23? Happy Holidoodles! Test your smarts with our Northwest trivia and puzzles 2012-12-20T23:38:08Z

But there is a purity in the sound of trained boy sopranos and altos that a mixed adult choir cannot match. Music Review: John Scott Leads ?Messiah? at St. Thomas Church - Review 2011-12-07T22:50:23Z

The night filled with a choir of phones. NOS-4R2 by Joe Hill – review 2013-05-23T10:00:01Z

Watching a Smithsonian documentary may be informative, but it is preaching to the choir. "Green Book": Black survival tool or white lie? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

A choir from South Africa’s Cape Town Opera will play the choral roles. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

“These choirs are about accessing humanity through community,” Mr. Schlosberg said. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

A segment of folk songs arranged by members of the choir included “Shenandoah,” a nod to America, segueing into “Waltzing Matilda,” a genuflection to Australia. Music Review: Australian Voices Focuses on Music From Home 2013-06-27T20:13:38Z

Here, together with the choirs of Gloucester and Worcester, the results were often astonishingly beautiful. St John Passion – review 2012-07-26T15:43:26Z

And none with a fresher sound, which owes almost as much to the vigorous work of the choir’s longtime collaborators, James Richman’s period band Concert Royal, as to the sweet piping of the boy trebles. St. Thomas Choir Performs Handel’s 'Messiah' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

I loved it when the gospel choir started to sing. Robert O’Hara Thinks ‘Men Are Stupid.’ His New Play Shows Just How. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Just after the rehearsal yesterday morning, a choir started singing in the Philharmonie. Rattle rehabilitates Sibelius in Germany 2010-05-21T15:36:00Z

So “The Events,” staged to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013, has looked to one of the nearest contemporary equivalents, the local choir. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

But pandemic restrictions affecting performers traveling from England, combined with the ensemble’s massive roster for the piece — which calls for two choirs and two orchestras — made the appearance impossible. The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

The young soloists, all – with the exception of soprano Hannah Morrison – drawn from the choir, were uniformly excellent. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z

The choir sang with a finely balanced sound and crisp diction. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z

A choir of angels has spoken unwith him and he hath divined the need to bang his own member with a rock? Nil desperandum homo erectus 2010-04-02T19:00:00Z

With the help of a Cal State Long Beach choir, he sang of not always getting what you want but somehow always getting what you need. Rolling Stones open 2015 tour with sold-out gig at San Diego's Petco Park 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, despite many good moments from the choir and the strings of the period band Baroque in the Fields, the performance did not entirely measure up. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The choir sang “It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe.” The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

This can’t be his endgame, unless he’s content to keep preaching to the choir. New Music: Demi Lovato and Talib Kweli Have New Albums 2013-05-13T22:10:19Z

SAT School choirs, Santa, tree lighting, 5:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In fact, at our high school we developed a great collaboration between the cheerleaders and the choir. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

The sound of this intimate instrumental ensemble nicely matched the voices of our cast, which sounded like the choirs Virgil had grown up with in Kansas City, Mo. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Salon spoke recently with Opacic over the phone about the "Glee" effect on the show choir world, the inevitability of budget cuts, and what "Glee" gets wrong about high school musical geeks. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

As the Evangelist, William Hite, who sang in a pew to the side of the choir, lacked the dramatic flair of Mr. Müller but delivered his texts with an appealing voice and clear tone. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

Carney, who sang as part of the children’s choir on Michael Jackson’s 1995 ‘‘HIStory’’ album, recalls a recent article in which he was quoted at length by a journalist he says he has never met. T Magazine: Along Came a Spider-man 2010-12-04T18:00:00Z

But with forces including an orchestra, choir, children’s chorus, solo soprano and baritone, with additional voice-overs, electronic sound installations, still photo projections and a brief virtual-reality film, it fell victim to its own overreaching ambitions. Review: A Musical Tale of the Cosmos, Birth and Death 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

A choir of Manchester children will be formed to sing in the production. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z

The daughter of an electrician and a health care worker, she played handball and sang in community choirs and annual Christmas shows. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

For Johnson, it was a more gradual transition, from high school basketball to choir and theater. Cast of ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ forged a team — on screen and off 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Escolania de Montserrat This 800-year-old boys choir from a Benedictine abbey near Barcelona performs; Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Concert Choir also performs. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, July 2-9: Independence Day shows and more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing. Aja Naomi King on ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

However, the BBC only gave around eight seconds' coverage to Gough's orchestration to music of bagpipes, drums and a choir without even a mention of what it was. Jubilee pageant composers condemn BBC coverage 2012-06-06T17:54:17Z

Her mother was an organist and choir director at a local church; growing up, Phyllis studied violin and ballet. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Hendler spoke with us recently from Jerusalem — where he was about to catch a bus to a voice lesson — about starting a youth choir in a region marked by conflict. In conflict zone, raising young Palestinian and Jewish voices 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Island Def Jam, West's label, was stuck clearing samples for this late-breaking material or, in the case of one sample, rerecording an "old vocal track" sung by an obscure Chicago children's choir. Kanye West still working on Yeezus even though it's due out next week 2013-06-11T10:15:40Z

“It’s written in a form that will engage people, not just the choir, but people who might think differently,” Cisneros said. Writing About the Border Crisis, Hoping to Break Down Walls 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Was I hearing a heavily processed sample of a vocal choir in “Part VII”? Critics? Choice: New Music From Gorillaz, the Chieftains and Fenn O?Berg 2010-03-14T21:41:00Z

The effect relies on a variety of factors, not least the challenge of organizing 1,000 singers from professional and community choirs from all five boroughs. In ‘The Mile-Long Opera,’ All the High Line’s a Stage 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Alberta focused, instead, on tutoring her husband, establishing women’s coalitions and directing the children’s choir. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

The two choirs’ repertories overlap only slightly: the Tallis Scholars specialize in early music, and though Tenebrae sings some of that too, its focus is mostly on the 20th and 21st centuries. Music Review: Tenebrae at Church of St. Mary the Virgin - Review 2011-11-08T23:32:06Z

The choirs sang well, although the overall performance wasn’t entirely cohesive or distinctive. Music Review: Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Plays at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-09T00:38:00Z

In the music, scored for four soloists, a small choir and a chamber ensemble of Western instruments, human passions and the sounds of nature become one. Music Review: ‘Matsukaze,’ an Opera of Love and Mourning 2013-07-19T20:26:39Z

If you were near the front during the Handel works, warm strings simmered under the glorious sound the massed choirs produced. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at St. John the Divine 2010-04-26T22:41:00Z

He sang and played piano in the church choir, but gave up the piano when he finished second in a contest. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z

The main "arena" is the tiny protestant church of St James, which seats 80 people, packed into the pews and choir loft. On the talent trail at Other Voices 2012 2012-12-06T10:54:00Z

The American Symphony Orchestra will accompany the chorus in all three programs, which will be conducted by Ted Sperling, the choir’s artistic director. ArtsBeat: Had Enough of Handel’s ‘Messiah’? Try Eric Idle’s 2014-05-12T15:31:51Z

Simpson played the piano and sang in a church choir, which Ashford soon joined. Songwriter Nickolas Ashford dies at age 70 2011-08-23T02:33:42Z

His mother was a trained opera singer who sang in church choirs. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The sisters sang in Catholic church choirs, and Maggie started writing songs after getting a guitar for her birthday in 1964. Maggie Roche, Who Led a Harmonic Trio of Singing Sisters, Dies at 65 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

It is the impeccable quality, combined with musicianship that belies the age of its members, that’s the reason why this choir is so revered. In Seattle concert, King’s College Choir shows why it’s been a hit for 5 centuries 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It was Baroque, only Baroque,” he recalled of his days singing in the church choir, at school and, quite often, at home. Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z

It’s Sunday morning at Beulah­land Bible Church in Macon, Ga. , and the man in the pulpit is preaching to the choir. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

So I did find this choir in Los Angeles, of course this is in Los Angeles; I hope people in other places can find this too. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z

The first half of the program included “Hymns From the Western Coast” for saxophone and choir by the Estonian composer Tonu Korvits, set to Swedish translations of Estonian folk songs. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Like Monty Python's infamous dead parrot, the great auk that author Margaret Atwood is knitting probably shuffled off his mortal coil, ran down the curtain and joined the choir invisible 150 years ago. Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species 2011-08-24T06:00:02Z

But immediately the opening notes sounded, under the baton of experienced choir director Brian Wright, the crowd listened, stock still. Handel's Messiah/ The Sixteen; Messiah: 500 Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ? review 2010-12-26T00:04:02Z

Sir David Willcocks, long considered Britain’s most esteemed choir director, who also led ensembles in the United States and even worked with the Rolling Stones, died on Thursday at his home in Cambridge, England. Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Five separate “choirs” of woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings and voices will perform outdoors at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza, choreographed by Mark DeChiazza. Every Single Place Has Its Own Sound 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

What Wise wasn’t learning in school choir rehearsals or from forbidden airwaves, he was learning in church. Divas, choirboys, songbirds, angels: None of them sound like Serpentwithfeet 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Sibisi But we also wanted to move away from just telling the choir’s story. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

It’s crass Christian propaganda that preaches to the choir – and no one else. Oscars 2017: 11 female performances too good to be overlooked 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, a choir from Morgan State University, the largest historically black college in Maryland, sang spirituals and “Glory,” the Oscar-winning song from the movie “Selma.” Pride and Pain on Opening Day at a Museum of African-American History 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

She left the conservatory and, at 21, got a position in the choir of the Latvian National Opera. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

She told me that a guy named Andy used to berate her daily during 10th grade choir class, whispering things like, “You suck” and “I hate you” across his music stand. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a quasi-hymn, with bedrock piano chords and a swelling choir, he surveys the devastation overseen by a “pharaoh” who keeps “a-preaching, but he never had a plan.” Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

And yet, epic ballads that work perfectly when performed in front of a choir and a waterfall of pyrotechnics are swiftly becoming the band's forte, as shown again on new single, Opposite. Biffy Clyro - Opposite: New music 2013-05-15T06:00:16Z

He graduated from high school in Hawaii, where he sang in a choir, and later joined the Marines. James Shigeta, an actor mindful of his Asian American roles, dies at 85

The rock choir/symphony brings their exuberant, theatrical and complex set to a relatively small venue. A&E highlights: Craft beer, Steely Dan, Railroad Days 2013-08-07T22:51:24Z

Most — even the staggeringly talented children’s choirs — were required to memorize their complex parts. Three Days, Four Helicopters, One Bone-Shaking Opera Marathon 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

In Washington, at the climate conference, Hayhoe was preaching to the choir. One of America’s top climate scientists is an evangelical Christian. She’s on a mission to persuade skeptics. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

You're preaching to the choir at this point, but I completely agree. From cheesy brie bites to gooey jalapeño poppers, "Savory Baking" has a place at your holiday table 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

There’s a choir in Tokyo, the JR Singers, dedicated to his output. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

The award-winning series about a group of misfit students in a struggling competition choir saw its biggest audience ever Tuesday night, positioning the TV show for a move from cult fan status to mainstream hit. "Glee" almost doubles audience on return to TV 2010-04-14T17:55:00Z

The Shchedryk choir arrived in New York this week with a mix of excitement and nervousness, uncertain whether the performance would resonate with an American audience. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

There is always so much going on: Flutes and angels and choirs going on in the orchestra, constantly drowning the songs in a lot of noise. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Last started his music career in the 1960s with instrumental music recordings with his orchestra James Last & His Orchestra, a big band with strings and choir added. James Last announces final tour 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The play centers on a boys’ prep school and its gospel choir, and one enterprising student’s quest to lead it. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ Heading to Broadway 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

We knew Clair could sing — early on, she performed a solo with the church choir. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

He sang in choirs – he loves the cultural legacy of the music and buildings – but drifted away from religion, although now, at 42, he finds his curiosity regrowing. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

Klimt painted it onto the walls in 1902 for the Secession’s 14th exhibition, depicting floating genies, a knight in shining armor, a giant Typhoeus monster of Greek myth and a choir of angels. Klimt Work Should Remain in Austria, Panel Says 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to determine whether he’s preaching to the choir or howling into the void. Review: Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

At 11, she played piano, the harpsichord, the violin, and sang in the church choir, but suddenly, her interest in music faded. What happened when I discovered my brother was a sexual predator 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

This melody first appears in “Turandot” sung by a boys’ choir accompanied by offstage saxophones. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z

This and the thrillingly exuberant work of the church choir throughout seemed to indicate that the parish’s spirit and resolve have survived this devastating assault undiminished: a heartening example to all. Spoleto Festival Premieres Follow Somber Reflection 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

You don’t only want to preach with the choir. “It’s when their hearts and spirits are open”: Ben Cohen explains why he’s taking the fight for campaign finance reform on tour 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The show follows her decades of arena spectacles by scaling the same kind of razzle-dazzle — dancers! costumes! video! choir! — for a theater stage. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

"They sing with a new confidence," Köhler said, making a comparison with the feeble, anxious sound of the choir he remembered from the bleak 1950s. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

The Beatles’ ability to conjure orchestras and horns and sound effects and choirs out of thin air imbues the tracks with a dream logic. The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

He lingered affectionately with members of a choir composed of disabled youngsters. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z

With instruments and choir dominating, this “Solomon” was more refined than immediately vivid — understated even amid all the score’s pomp. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Other performers included a choir made up of wives of British servicemen and the Slum Drummers, a group of street children from Kenya whose instruments are made from scrap they have salvaged. Royal anthem reigns at top of UK charts 2012-06-10T18:57:36Z

Glee has become a TV phenomenon since 2009, with a winning mix of teen comedy and drama, along with glossy song and dance routines performed by the fictional high school show choir. 'Glorified karaoke' 2011-06-23T07:27:38Z

He succeeded admirably, drawing a crystalline texture from his 24-voice choir, which is notable for its bright, pure soprano sound, though the other sections are by no means deficient. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z

Fields’ Gospel Wonders, the choir she sang with for decades at the Universal Church of God in New York. Sharon Jones Says Farewell With ‘Soul of a Woman’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Still, the ostensible focus was on the choirs, in a series pointing to their performance of Bach’s B minor Mass on March 3. Music Review: Dessoff Choirs at Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2012-02-07T23:41:03Z

When the choir first answered her, with lines evoking a mother’s consolation, its tone was so hushed that it sounded like a memory. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The choir sang: “No more racism. We are going to change the world.” What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,” the choir sang, “And you’ll never walk alone.” Sweden Wins a Eurovision Song Contest That Showed Solidarity With Ukraine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

Approximate percentage of choir alumni who become professional musicians, conductors, singers or instrumentalists. Famed Vienna Boys Choir to bring its heavenly voices to GMU Center for the Arts 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Williams' falsetto swerves through a cushiony choir, the layers of backing vocals becoming another percussion instrument alongside the hand-claps during the bridge. Review: Pharrell Williams keeps it light with 'G I R L' 2014-03-03T16:24:00Z

No house built on such a sublime foundation, buttressed by the horns and gospel choirs of a hundred classic midcentury R&B albums, should be this empty inside. Review | Sam Smith: Sadness with a whole lot of emptiness 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Annual service with traditional and gospel songs performed by the gospel choir. Passions, ‘Superstar’ and More 2014-04-10T22:10:48Z

Wood will focus on four characters during their time in the choir and 45 years on. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z

That point was also reinforced by the choice of a local orchestra and choir, with an all-German quartet of soloists. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

More often than not, the instrumental choirs call and respond rather than blend. Music Review: Harry Connick Jr. Performs on Broadway 2010-07-16T21:19:00Z

After a busy weekend building a web-based karaoke game that enables spontaneous formations of choirs, I sat back to watch all the great ideas at the final presentation. SXSW 2011: How we made our interactive band tracker 2011-03-11T16:34:26Z

The Tallis Scholars, the redoubtable English choir that specializes in Renaissance music, is recording all of the polyphonic settings of the Latin Mass Ordinary attributed to Josquin. CD reviews: Fresh takes on Gershwin and Josquin 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

He first showed promise as a schoolboy soloist in the church choir and then as a harmonizer in barbershop quartets. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Huffman’s love of music was nurtured by singing Bach and Handel in a church choir. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Numbering just fewer than 30 singers, the choir actively collaborated and interacted with its director, Hannu Norjanen, rather than simply reproducing a final rehearsal. Classical Movements’ ‘Serenade!’: How do you translate ‘uneven’? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The group harmonized over acoustic guitar, piano and violin like angels in a six-piece choir. The Head and the Heart, Phantogram, Empire of the Sun rock The End’s Deck the Hall Ball 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And Season 2 will include not just the choir sectional and regional competitions, but also nationals. "Glee" writers drop hints about season No. 2 2010-07-13T19:07:00Z

And, if none of the individual voices were particularly impressive, the choir achieved remarkable, moving effects of hovering gauziness and almost whispered sweetness; the sound was sometimes mellow, sometimes thrillingly emphatic. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

He found refuge in music, first in the church choir and then in playing drums, inspired by the shiny suits of the local drum and bugle corps. Earth, Wind & Fire is forever in the groove 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Instead of the buzz of skin-art needles, Scope arena will ring with the sounds of military marching bands, massed pipes and drums, drill teams, choirs and the shoes of Scottish dancers. A sea of tartans at the Tattoo 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

This South African choir, founded in 1961, perfected a vocal blend as warm and enfolding as a down comforter and as brotherly as a team hug. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z

Harry married Hollywood actress Meghan Markle in May, at a royal wedding that included a gospel choir and other nods to her African American heritage. Prince Harry and Meghan attend hit musical Hamilton in London 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Residents say they want to continue the choir after lockdown ends. Nightly show in Swiss block helps beat lockdown blues 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

"This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down." Paramore: no more Misery Business 2013-01-26T06:00:00Z

Afterward a choir member asked a listener, “Do you have a headache yet?” music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

To hear testimonies in church, the choir, that's a form of soul. Lady and the road back for 2 soul singers 2013-03-22T16:13:00Z

Strange contraptions — a pendulum playing a harp, a Tesla coil to zap bass tones — were arrayed around Bjork, her band and an Icelandic early-music choir. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

He joined the church choir that his mother sang in; before long, he was taking the lead. An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Buketoff sought out performers adequate to the difficulties of the work, which sometimes separates the choir into 12 independent voices. Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ by Clarion Choir 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

What you think you're thinking about is a choir and two middle-aged people. Choral story 2011-06-28T07:03:20Z

Whitney was herself singing in the choir in her hometown of Newark, N.J. at the age of 11. The Voice of America: Whitney Houston (1963-2012) 2012-02-12T03:38:37Z

Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 is music of Mahlerian scale, a 100-minute work requiring five solo singers, a choir and a children’s chorus. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“I literally was directing the choirs when I was 12,” he said. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

But Dr. Rogers’s pedagogy was crucial, and needs to be adopted by other predominantly white choirs. He Turned ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Into Protest Music 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

In late May, he joined soprano Terri Richter, baritone Morgan Smith plus choir and orchestra in a performance of Joseph Haydn's "The Creation," a sacred-music vision of the formation of all living things. Preview: Sacred Music Foundation celebrates religious music's classical roots 2010-07-26T22:58:00Z

Still — understandably, in these circumstances — the choir seemed to lack some of the crispness so typical of Scott performances in the Mozart. Review: St. Thomas Church Season Honors John Scott 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Signing choirs have long been common around the world. Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

An A student who planned on becoming a doctor, like his grandfather, Cousins also sang in Holland’s competitive choir, Living Hope, whose repertoire drew from such works as the musical “Wicked” and Handel’s “Messiah.” Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Once the choir joins later, its members sing without vibrato, staggering their breaths to create seamlessly suspended streams of sound that, Sorey said, are not unlike the paintings surrounding them. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Salome Dances for Peace is a sensuous but epic 100-minute cycle for string quartet; Sun Rings is an even bigger set of pieces for quartet, choir, visuals and the sounds of space. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

About eight hours after their morning rehearsal, 18 of the choir’s child members and 13 adult choral scholars walked into the college’s grand chapel, to sing that day’s traditional evensong service. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The choir produced a marvelous resonant sound on Monday, singing those lovely rounded Finnish vowels and unison melodies with buoyant clarity. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

A few weeks before he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music, he had an encounter with a soprano from a local choir after he performed a piece by Coates. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

“It’s definitely a spiritual experience when you get the choir and the band and the congregation in there together.” Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Marks 25 Years 2013-10-22T14:20:55Z

The pop star was mourned at a funeral Saturday at the church in Newark where she sang in the choir as a child. Whitney Houston being laid to rest at NJ ceremony 2012-02-19T16:46:09Z

In keeping with their recent practice of using local choirs in concert, the Stones were joined onstage by the chamber choir from California State University, Long Beach, for “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Rolling Stones Start Themselves Up in San Diego 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

I realized the rabbi was talking, the choir was singing and nobody was doing anything. Debbie Friedman, Singer of Jewish Music, Dies at 59 2011-01-11T07:18:11Z

The project will involve more than 1,000 people, including a choir of 100 singers and 100 cyclists to propel Godiva through the streets. Zandra Rhodes plans iron corset for Godiva's Olympic ride 2011-03-14T01:00:00Z

The choir was admirably prepared by Stephen Buzard, the church’s acting director of music, and Benjamin Sheen, the acting organist, who also played positive organ. Review: St. Thomas Church Season Honors John Scott 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

“When I started singing, the whole crowd started singing along with me and it was a magical moment because it sounded like a choir of angels,” she said. Country newcomer duets with legends on new album 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

That show, whose audience included first responders and the parents of Sandy Hook victims, also featured the choir from Sandy Hook Elementary, on video, singing their school song. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z

The best way to answer those questions would be to look at the hit TV show "Glee," in which all manner of popular songs are rearranged for a fictional high-school show choir. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z

The ceremony that begins the festival, featuring the choir from Magdalen College performing "Hymnus Eucharisticus" goes back some 500 years, the college says. Tradition, revelry mark May Day in Oxford 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

“The vocal writing has an incredibly wide range, the imitative counterpoint is going back and forth in rapid fire between the two choirs, and Martin is using a 5/8 meter.” Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

You may add your own voices to the choir at the Diner’s Journal blog. Hey, Mr. Critic: New York at First Bite: Oh, the Places You?ll Go 2011-07-28T20:30:08Z

This is a setting of the 1942 Benjamin Britten score, composed for choir and harp, which Alston and his accomplished company will variously augment with dance students, a choir and a harpist performing live. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

Earlier this week, the entire choir of the Czech Republic’s National Theater was quarantined after 10 members tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokeswoman said. At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

From the coves of Cornwall to the suburbs of Glasgow, inspirational choirs and angel-voiced ordinary folk are just waiting to be discovered and made into a movie. Same old song: are heartwarming musical films becoming too one-note? 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

He spent a summer in a penitentiary, recording 10 albums of songs by inmates; “The Clouds” was a compilation of rural Alabama gospel choirs. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

A jazzed-up version of the song, complete with vamping horn players and a gospel choir, also saw release that same year. How George Harrison made his last number 1 hit, "Got My Mind Set On You" 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

An American scientist, Art Fry, dreamed up the Post-it note in the late 1970s when singing in a church choir. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

As a choir musters behind her, she enumerates her partner’s failings and points out all that she’s done — “I was always there to pick up the pieces when you were a full-blown catastrophe.” Rihanna Inches Back to Music, and 8 More New Songs 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Given that the choir is sponsored by the state, it seems inevitable that they would focus on historic struggles. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

The first half was a mishmash of this and that, the most enjoyable number being the sole a cappella offering of the choirs, “She Moved Through the Fair.” From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Rather than the noisy, reactionary bundle of bodies that the choir has often been reduced to, the choir here creates a real sense of community. A brilliant cast breaks through stereotypes in Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The album, being released by New Amsterdam on Tuesday, is a roiling blend of experimental art-rock with processed classical choirs, electronic production and earthy lyrics delivered in her native language. Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

Her grandfather was a singer and choir leader, and by age 8 she was singing in Danville's Calvary Baptist Church. Camilla Williams, black opera pioneer, dies at 92 2012-01-30T16:54:09Z

Zoë Bonner, 41, a soprano and co-organizer of a caroling pub crawl to raise money for a homeless charity, explained that a scarcity of male voices “was always” an issue for choirs and carol singers. ‘Caroling on the Edge’: A Christmas Tradition Returns 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

How has the success of the choir affected your personal life? Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z

As director of music and the arts, Wachner oversees the church’s choir, its Baroque orchestra and its contemporary ensemble, which together present hundreds of events each year. Trinity Church’s Conductor Put on Leave Amid Investigation 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

But before they get the band back together, Mr. Halsey has some choirs to conduct — in Berlin, Birmingham, Barcelona, London and Paris. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

One key passage was after the transition between the last two numbers of the Gloria, which the choir just ripped into with gusto and thrilling contrapuntal singing. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Finishing a 10-week U.S. tour, the choir presented a diverse program of works that not only celebrated the storied group’s musical heritage but also showcased how quickly it is evolving. Review | When it comes to holiday concerts, Vienna Boys Choir still impresses 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Without giving too much away, it seems appropriate that Moore’s novel comes to a head in the choir loft of a crumbling cathedral. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

They hold classical music in high regard and pay homage to it by incorporating choirs, strings and trumpets in their songs. New Band Up North 2012-11-12T16:55:00Z

It's been fun to leave the choir room and experience what else is out there for Kurt. A Minute With: "Glee" star Chris Colfer's "Lightning" film debut 2013-01-09T11:05:46Z

Along with a 16-piece band and a gospel choir, it will feature the soprano Priscilla Baskerville, the tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith, students from Dance Theater of Harlem and narration by the actor Norm Lewis. Jazz Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

I remember that one Sunday he was singing in the men’s tenor section of our Episcopal choir and a month later he joined the altos with the women. Modern Love: From Humiliation to Appreciation — Modern Love 2013-04-18T18:07:06Z

But late last week, a group of about 15 members of the choir who are under 12 returned to the Met with hopes of joining the cast of the next run of “Tosca” in January. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Once the choir was warmed up, Andrew Nethsingha, its music director, called upon boy after boy to sing a couple of lines of a psalm solo. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

There’s the choir boy and Boy Scout, who was bullied by schoolmates and kept a pet mouse named Gladys. Books of The Times: A Writing Stone: Chapter and Verse 2010-10-25T18:28:00Z

At the back of the stage are 19 boys from Canterbury Cathedral choir, who sing the music for his setting of A Ceremony of Carols. Richard Alston Dance Company ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:47Z

In March, Courtney Love posted a video of West performing “Jesus Walks,” a single from his début album, with the choir stomping and singing the song’s a-cappella hook. Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Back then, no one accepted the idea that stuffy old choirs could be fashionable, as well as socially inclusive with everything that expression implies. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC, a pastor’s kid; the church on Sunday, prayer on Tuesday, choir rehearsal on Thursday kind of kid. Why Amber Rose’s Slutwalk Was For Everyone — Even Prudes 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

We hear papers shuffling, birds chirping, the voices of an ethereal choir. Victory Speech (Hillary’s Version) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

“So it’s me as a Slavic vocal choir,” she said. Olga Bell Releases Her Russia-Inspired ‘Krai’ 2014-04-30T14:18:56Z

Similarly, last year Little Mix's dirgy cover of Damien Rice's Cannonball was beaten by a choir formed by the wives of British military personnel. Christmas No 1: James Arthur has killed off the usual good v evil battle 2012-12-18T20:00:02Z

They lip-sync the “Joyful, Joyful” choir performance from “Sister Act II,” and then Whoopi Goldberg shows up in a full habit. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

“In the orchestra and choir, we have local New York musicians,” he said, to a huge New York roar. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The clean, zestful sound of the choir never sounds effete, though the Barbican is just a touch too large and dry to support the big choruses. Handel's Messiah/ The Sixteen; Messiah: 500 Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ? review 2010-12-26T00:04:02Z

The state choir's songbook includes Monteverdi, Puccini and Bach, but the Creole Choir is Chavez's attempt to honour her own family traditions. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

The choir will be accompanied by the Livingston Symphony Orchestra on the tour, which will include two stops in New York and one in Connecticut. Mixing the Sacred and the Secular 2011-05-29T02:40:05Z

The group is a multiethnic, multifaith choir and band that performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish and Ladino. Spare Times for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Every bludgeoning needs an invisible gospel choir; every pummeling seems rendered in leering slow-motion. Review: ‘Arsenal’ Finds Nicolas Cage as a Criminal, Not Playing Nice 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

There's a narrator, there are electronic sounds, there's bestial - or rather cetacean - improvisation from the choir, there are football rattles and a whip, there's serialism, crunching dissonance, and loud-hailers. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z

“Part II” plays on themes in Norwegian culture and politics with each voice in the opera representing a trope: the tenor the artist, the soprano the state, and the choir the populace. Steinar Haga Kristensen Is One of a Wave of New Artists Reviving the Norwegian Capital 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

In this case, that’s the gospel music in which the school choir specializes. Theater: Something Off Key at a Gospel Choir 2013-06-28T19:43:02Z

The album is really Carey’s version of a contemporary gospel record, complete with a powerhouse choir, showy modulations, and piercing organ solos. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

With a choir of 24 singers and an orchestra of around 30, the result suited the Barbican's well-upholstered and not especially resonant acoustic. St John Passion – review 2013-03-31T17:31:01Z

The collaboration with the choir and other church musicians — the event also made use of the organ and the church’s bells — was a later addition, said Michael McCarthy, the chorus’s director. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Her father was a cathedral organist and choir director in Ottawa. Review: A Pianist Reveals Bach’s Inner Dancer 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

A live band and gospel choir kicked off the service with a set of upbeat worship songs, followed by a rendition of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy,” with guests dancing and clapping along. ‘Our Love Is Built to Last’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The stars of this show, part of the Barbican's season of collaborations with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, were the 60-odd singers of the Abyssinian Mass choir. Abyssinian Mass – review 2012-07-17T18:30:01Z

So the question is, why don't men sing in choirs? Why don't men join choirs? 2013-06-13T14:46:00Z

A musical comedy about six teenage choir members who meet their ends when a roller coaster goes off the rails does not sound like a recipe for heavenly delight. What’s New in NYC Theater 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

And many British choirs that were once male preserves now include girls and women in varying degrees. In a Season of Boys’ Choirs, a Question: Why No Girls? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

As news of the fire spread, church choir directors, music professors, organists and organ builders filled the company’s Facebook page with messages of grief and support. Iowa Workshop Whose Pipe Organs Shook the World Burns to the Ground 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Brabbins has been rehearsing the musicians in Cardiff while the 10 choirs have been preparing separately around the country, ahead of a huge choral rehearsal in Birmingham town hall. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

Though their overall character is reverent and restrained, the antiphonal back-and-forth between small choirs of voices and various batteries of instruments seems unabashedly Venetian. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The band and the choir set the table for Franklin, and the whole troupe serves the meal of Jesus’ miracle. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Carlebach’s daughter, Neshama, has recorded and performed his music with a black gospel choir from Green Pastures Baptist Church in the Bronx. ‘Zion80,’ Combining the Music of Fela and Carlebach 2013-06-05T21:29:00Z

As “Set Me Free” gathers banjo, gospel choir and a muscular rock band, Ms. Cotton testifies to pain, need, revelation and redemption in a voice that’s as raw as it is indomitable. The Playlist: Cardi B Isn’t Going Anywhere and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Both pieces receive detailed, balanced performances on this disc, with intonation and blend, within each section and across the choir, up to the Tallis Scholars’ incomparable standards. CD reviews: Fresh takes on Gershwin and Josquin 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Three cantors from New York synagogues will perform Jan. 26, and a concert by the Fisk University choir is planned for Feb. 8. The Museum of the Bible expands programming to attract more repeat visitors 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The album’s one wholeheartedly joyful song is “State of the Art,” full of pitch-shifted praises of an electric home organ that has built-in drumbeats and simulated choir — a gizmo supreme. New Music: Albums From Gotye, Candy Dulfer and Jeff Lorber Fusion 2012-01-30T23:25:12Z

The choir joined the Sirius Quartet for the premiere of the German composer and violinist Gregor Huebner’s “Six Songs of Innocence,” a lyrical setting of poems by William Blake. ‘Voices, Winds and Paths’ at the Chelsea Music Festival 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The crowd is criminally small, and Cave is making no concessions for a festival crowd, despite opening with a friendly "Hi kids", and bringing out a children's choir. Coachella festival 2013 day three: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave, Grimes – review 2013-04-15T09:49:58Z

When the Holy Spirit settles into the choir stand at a black church, it inspires bodies to dance with rapturous release. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

"There was a Canadian girl asking to join Scala and she was willing to move to Belgium for a year just to be in the choir," says Steven, a droll, shaggy 41-year-old. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

Each choir member sings as many as 80 concerts a year. Best bets for classical music in Seattle this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The choir comments, rather in the style of the turba choruses in Bach's passions. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z

King's choir know how to communicate with millions around the world through radio and TV and have decided to take charge of their own media destiny. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z

And Wednesday’s performance suggested as much, even though it lacked the choir and string orchestra that Mr. Washington brought aboard for a triumphant concert in Los Angeles this spring. Review: Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down Are Blowing Through Town 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Then, boldly, Fox and his team set up stalls and dropped leaflets across Swindon, particularly targeting some of the more deprived areas, to find singers for the adult choir. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z

Their father, Yip Wai-hong, founded Hong Kong’s first children’s choir and many other music institutions for youth. A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

While unpopular among his schoolmates, Pharus yearns to lead the choir. In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z

Three decades later, I myself stood on the stage of the Free Trade Hall clad in red blazer and grey shorts, singing shamelessly chauvinistic songs as a member of the school choir on Speech Day. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z

Having choirs that reflect the community is more important than technical polish, even musically, noted Mr. Gilljam, 43, a boyishly upbeat Swede. ‘The Events’ Uses Local Choirs for Vocals, Minus a Script 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The beat is by South End fixture Kuddie Fresh, and mixes choir and string sounds for a momentous feel. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z

Realize the pointlessness of preaching to the choir. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Director Christian Schlatter tells me the hotel was originally a practice and performance space founded by a church choir; today, he says, it’s “a hotel with a cultural soul.” Finding real summer deals in the deluxe Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The first half of the play, culminating in that funeral scene, is great, nasty fun, even if, at the heart of Manhattan, it’s preaching to the choir. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

I found a nondenominational, non-audition choir, and we sing traditional Zulu songs. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z

They may well be overwhelmed by the 35 boys and 22 men in the Sistine choir. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

At school, she took violin lessons and sang in the choir. How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

There is a small misalignment between the nave and the choir, which results in a slightly trapezoidal shape to the large bell tower that rises above the intersection. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope

The choir is not the building’s only initiative under lockdown. Nightly show in Swiss block helps beat lockdown blues 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

You lead an active life now: you cycle and swim, coach the cross country team, serve on the library and hospice boards, sing in a choir, baby-sit grandchildren. “I don’t like it when people say God never gives you more than you can handle”: Small-town obit writer Heather Lende knows better 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It alters nothing, its effects are isolate and random, the voice in which it preaches can’t carry past the choir. An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

“All of us artists, we are in tents in the desert, eating together, the choir, the stagehands, the orchestra, the singers. The atmosphere is like a kibbutz,” he said, referring to Israel’s socialistic collectives. In Israel, Opera Echoes From Rocks and Ruins 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

They were joined by a larger Latino choir, including Hispanic members of the U.S. military, in singing "America the Beautiful." Latinos take on bigger role in Obama inauguration 2013-01-21T02:44:08Z

“They had been the radio choir of East Berlin. Suddenly there were two of everything in Berlin. And we had to find a reason for the choir to exist.” Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The singers present this music not as a concert choir but as if they were a group of monks making a devotional offering. Music Review: Early Mass, With Its Exoticism Intact 2010-12-10T23:35:00Z

With a choir of powerhouse singers adding joyful noise, Sister Margaret’s fall is set in motion by the preacher’s blindness to her own weaknesses and a venomous congregation’s vengeful schemes. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a school music class, her voice was noticed, which led to singing in a church choir and learning the sacred repertory of Schubert, Mozart and more. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Sistine choir, on the other hand, is simply of a lesser quality: warm as the Roman vocal tradition requires, but often loud with a "harsh, bombastic tone," he said. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

Painted on the wall behind it is a mural of the choir that sang at Till’s home-going service. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Along one wall is a giant rendering of the Crucifixion that, rather like the choir paintings at Madonna dell-Albergo, is too large to be seen easily given the size of the space. Perspective | Seeing Tintoretto in Venice is very nice. But so is seeing his works in a well-lit museum. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The choir launched into the lilting carol, which sounded bright and joyful, but to Mr. Hyde’s ears there were problems. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

But not to make too much of the choir’s failure to match its own lofty standard: the earnest and ebullient spirit so reliably delivered by the boys counted for much. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

It was a concert that opened with an act of contrition and closed with a robed church choir paving the road to a celebration. Concert review: Madonna at the United Center 2012-09-20T07:42:00Z

We've just been mixing a song called Let Me Know, and we've got a big choir in and boosted them up in the chorus. 2010-01-28T08:23:00Z

Mr. Muhly, who grew up singing in church choirs, instills these fleeting scenes with hints of early sacred music over pungently subdued writing in the orchestra. Review: ‘Marnie’ Stays in the Shadows in Nico Muhly’s Opera 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Other choirs who have decided to mix boys and girls said they had similarly received a few negative reactions. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

To the credit of the massed choirs, the words were always clearly projected, allowing the brilliance of Britten's word-setting to be heard to advantage. BBCNOW/Atherton – review 2013-01-28T18:18:18Z

The young choir sang this haunting, richly textured, mesmerising requiem with a flair and precision way beyond their years under the assured direction of Andrew Cleary in a most remarkable act of remembrance. Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z

I've carried many roles, such as worship leader, choir director, Sunday school teacher, music director and youth leader. Perspective | Ask Amy: Pastor’s child feels weight of service 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Nally elicited a focused, often soft sound from the volunteer choir of about 150 people, well blended even though they were seated in sections. Review | Guest conductor leads Cathedral Choral Society with sure hand 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s a neo-psychedelic guitar-driven drone that opens with feedback and keeps cranking up higher, with Nutini unleashing his rasp and a choir shouting “yeah, yeah” before he’s swallowed back into the morass. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

His most famous composition, “Earth Requiem” for large chorus, symphony orchestra, solo quartet and children’s choir, was performed for the first time in 1997 at the National Cathedral in Washington. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Rather than preaching to the choir, Goettler says, Cato wants to welcome visitors with different values so they can learn more about the think tank and vice versa. What does a libertarian art show look like? The Cato Institute is finding out. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

With Ms. Fink and Ms. Tilling singing beautifully and the resonant voices of the choir, the culmination of the finale had all the celestial exuberance any Mahlerite could ask for. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z

Mr. Sharon knows that the Angelenos who attend his “Galileo,” originally scheduled for September but now due in May, are unlikely to need much political persuading, but he sees no trouble preaching to the choir. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Rendering a miraculous premise dull, the film seems relatively uninterested in doing more than preaching to the choir. Review: ‘90 Minutes in Heaven,’ Then a Long Road Back 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

He grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood of the Bronx, where he took up the piano and drums as a teenager, sang in the church choir and played in a dance band during high school. John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Thomas said that his father was a guitarist and his mother led a church choir. Major Harris of the Delfonics Dies at 65 2012-11-12T17:03:02Z

Lefty celebrities have long been preaching to the choir, but they are increasingly galvanizing the other side when their chatter is rerouted into an online conservative echo chamber. How Conservative Sites Turn Celebrity Despair on Its Head 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The choir reassembled up front for elegant, clear-textured accounts of two sublime Bach motets, accompanied only by continuo cello and chamber organ. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The album will include “Stand By Me”, which the choir also performed outside Kensington Palace on Tuesday when the record deal was announced. Royal wedding gospel choir gets record deal 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

This Quebeçois ensemble and its affiliated choir, La Chapelle de Québec, performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor under the guidance of Bernard Labadie. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Under Vann's direction, the choir acquired a precision and clarity of tone that quickly became its hallmark and even won favourable comparisons with David Willcocks's choir at King's College, Cambridge. Stanley Vann obituary 2010-06-03T17:02:00Z

One of the two choirs, dressed in 1950s austerity gear. York Mystery Plays' triumphant return to St Mary's abbey 2012-08-09T10:00:00Z

From the 1970s on, she sang with funk bands and wedding bands, sang backup at recording sessions and led church choirs. Sharon Jones, Soul Singer With Dap-Kings, Dies at 60 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Growing up in Covington, La., where her father was pastor of the First Baptist Church, she found her niche early on in church choirs. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z

When she auditioned for the choir in elementary school her voice was too low to reach the high notes, and the director told her she couldn’t sing. Dua Lipa Was Raised on Pop Bangers. Now She Writes Them. 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

But he plays an influential role on his new project as the co-writer, co-producer and the central voice that continually galvanizes the 200-member mass choir with his encouraging song introductions and inspiring words. Review: Hezekiah Walker hits mark with new album 2013-06-13T17:27:13Z

We use a children’s choir instead of a synthesizer. A Word With: Mark Morris: Cracking Open A Holiday Classic 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z

The performance by a vocal band with a young following led to its notice by choir directors around the world. Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

L.V. recorded multiple vocal tracks that Rasheed combined to sound like a large choir singing a haunting refrain, as well as the chorus: “Been spending most their lives living in a gangsta’s paradise.” The Story of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ Coolio’s Biggest Hit 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

"A Festival of Lessons and Carols": What's more celestial than a choir of boys' voices, lifted to the rafters? 4 events to end your week happily ever after 2011-12-10T00:31:04Z

Rödl first appeared in the play at age 4, met his wife in the cast in 2010, and this year performs in the choir. ‘It’s My Tradition Too’: A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

The true story in question is well known: how the partners of British servicemen fighting in Afghanistan formed a choir that became a national sensation. Same old song: are heartwarming musical films becoming too one-note? 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Elizabeth, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1741, made music an important feature of her court, and sang in her chapel choir. Delving in to the Russian classical archive 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The new children's choir comprises pupils from three primary schools and one secondary in north Manchester. Choral story 2011-06-28T07:03:20Z

With a gospel choir followed by, I kid you not, a key change, it's totally egregious in sentiment as well as sound. Justin Bieber: Believe – review 2012-06-16T23:05:30Z

He became a lay preacher and featured soloist in the choir at the First United Methodist Church not long after he started working at Hawthorn Funeral Home in 1985. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z

At the encouragement of his mother, he began singing at a young age and joined a church choir. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tennill says she has found a simple way to explain where she works: “I say it’s like Hogwarts, but with choir instead of magic.” The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

A deep industrial thump, Gothic choir harmonies and a screamed backup refrain — “Where would you be without me?” — make clear that it’s actually a hellscape. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The music is an elaborate, evolving sigh, starting with low-fi, oompah piano chords that grow entwined with guitar arpeggios and a choir of “aah”s. ‘Evermore,’ Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Sequel, Is a Journey Deeper Inward 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Around 6, he participated in a church choir and then the Atlanta Boy Choir, alternately immersed in religious and secular music. The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Members of the staff valiantly kept everyone in as good cheer as possible: the kava flowed and they even sang to us, in lieu of the church choir that usually travels from an island village. Frugal Traveler Blog: Fiji for the Rest of Us 2012-05-01T20:26:09Z

I can recall being a seventh grader in a church choir surrounded by tittering children embarrassed at having to sing the word “bosom” in a popular hymn. Music Review: Maude Maggart’s ‘Into the Garden’ at Feinstein’s 2012-06-07T21:52:17Z

Intonation issues crept up, especially with the tenors and sopranos, meaning that in some unaccompanied works, organist Scott Dettra’s shadowing was needed to keep the choir on pitch. Review | Guest conductor leads Cathedral Choral Society with sure hand 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hines has cut his all-volunteer choir to 14 this year — fewer than half of his normal 36 members, but outsize in spirit, he notes. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

With the vocal soloists therefore underemployed, Mr. Scott declined to hire guest male soloists, drawing instead from the choir: Patrick Fennig, countertenor; Martin Coyle, tenor; and Kelvin Chan and Daniel Moore, baritones. Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

At this show, in the middle of a nine-night run, Ms. Carey leaned in to the lunacy of it all — the fake snow, the dancing kids, the choir. It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Led by the artistic director of the series, K. Scott Warren, the orchestra played the Mozart works with a smoothness that verged on blandness, and the choir sang with fullness but not much incisiveness. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

The album featured a string section, a 20-person choir and a loose collective calling itself the West Coast Get Down. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Choral Festival Pacific Chorale is joined by singers from local community, school, university, church and temple choirs for a concert that features Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Aug. 13-20: The LA Phil's 'Tchaikovsky Spectacular' and more 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

A mostly black ensemble with a white coach and star singer, the choir resembles an NFL team’s offensive lineup. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z

In the “Glee” universe, which revolves around the show choir from William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, music is a curative, a perfect problem solver. Television: ?Glee?: Attitude, Yes, but Without a Song in Its Heart 2010-04-10T04:10:00Z

We rushed to support the choir of military wives, devised by Gareth Malone last Christmas. Strictly Come Dancing's simple pleasures trump The X Factor every day 2012-12-18T13:39:35Z

Several U.S. military bands and choirs joined forces with the men and women on stage and an Air Force ceremonial brass ensemble filled the aisles of the Opera House. For Tom Hanks et al., a capital evening at Kennedy Center Honors gala 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Here, we find Elhae, who was raised in his mother’s choir, likening the curves of a woman’s body to a temple in which he is baptized. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Secular choirs like the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen have given visibility to the music we do day in, day out liturgically, and that brings us into the fold. Westminster Abbey, Scaling Up 2011-04-24T00:49:23Z

The brass choirs, after an early slip, were deeply stirring right down to the final chord. Review: Odd, Delightful Juxtapositions at the Philharmonic 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

You almost believe they have an inkling that they are soon to be a heavenly choir. Voices raised ebulliently, passengers of ‘Titanic’ head for the deep 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

On each, a fine choir provides a musical portrait of a historical Christmas; heard together, they provide an education that ranges through Europe and across the centuries. A Classical Christmas, Across the Centuries 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The new piece has its roots in Mr. Lamar’s childhood in Alabama, where he was a boy soprano in his church choir. A Goth Male Soprano Who Plumbs the Darkness 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Combine his work with the vocal dexterity of Commotio, one of our finest young choirs, and you know you can expect a programme of rare quality. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z

He found a choir from a church in his native Northern California to sing the song that sets the show’s unforgettable tone, beginning with Mendelson’s words: Lee Mendelson dies; brought “Charlie Brown Christmas” to TV 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

At 11, she impudently called the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and invited her to perform at a fund-raiser for the children’s choir. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It’s based on this one song written in the 1930s. We recorded it over 50 times with different musicians, everything from ragtime piano to gospel choir,” Aitken says. Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

At the other spectrum is the smooth, white sound of boy choristers, which some mixed choirs try to emulate by having the female sopranos adopt what is known as straight-tone singing. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

They were like a street corner choir sponsored by Air Jordans, narrating my formative years: Never apologize, never have regrets, never let them see you sweat. I grew up surrounded by toxic masculinity, but I evolved: We have to give people a chance to grow 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Curiously enough, this was much less true of the straightforward gospel choir from Chicago. Patti Smith showed me what sacred music is 2013-06-26T10:15:58Z

Mr. Bowman’s breakthrough came in 1967, when he was working as a teacher and was doing most of his singing in choirs. James Bowman, Who Helped Resurrect the Countertenor, Dies at 81 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Number of years the choir sang exclusively for the imperial court at mass, concerts, private functions and state events. Famed Vienna Boys Choir to bring its heavenly voices to GMU Center for the Arts 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The abbey is financially independent from the Archdiocese of Hartford and supports itself through the sale of everything from artisanal cheeses and handcrafted pottery to recordings of its choir. Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z

Now this excellent Belgian choir, directed by Paul Van Nevel, performs the work straight, in the first of two festival concerts in more or less neighboring churches. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

Like Will Schuester, I used the show choir experience to attract and recruit students. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

If that's not to your taste, there may well also be a choral society or community choir nearby. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

She was happy to write in a range of styles — pop songs, television work, music for amateur choirs. Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Christians West Coast premiere of Lucas Hnath's drama about an evangelical pastor inspired to chart a new course for his congregation; features a live choir comprised of local singers. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 6-13: Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' and more 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

She repeats the line, assembling her voice into a choir over gently picked guitar, like a lullaby; then an eerie brass ensemble replaces her voices, and then a raucous guitar moves in. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

He introduces her to a band of outsiders and misfits who meet weekly for what they call “choir practice,” a louche and joyful open mic night in an abandoned mall. Bridget Everett Shows Off Her Softer Side. And a Bra. 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Sistine Chapel Choir to Sing With Westminster Abbey Choir For the first time in a history stretching back more than 500 years, the Sistine Chapel Choir will sing as a single chorus with another choir. ArtsBeat: Sistine Chapel Choir to Sing With Westminster Abbey Choir 2012-06-28T14:58:33Z

From the parking lot a road wanders toward the curved wall of the steep mountainside ahead, like a nave to the choir of the great Berkshire cathedral. 36 Hours in the Berkshires 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

She began her singing career in the traditional setting of a gospel church choir, and at 15 sang backing vocals on Chaka Khan's 1978 soul hit I'm Every Woman. Whitney Houston: squandered talent of a singer who had it all 2012-02-12T17:13:58Z

Expect performances by the Vienna Singverein concert choir and the Vienna State Ballet. TV highlights: New Year’s Eve coverage takes over primetime on Saturday . 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The comedy choir wars are more intense, more absurd and more lowbrow fun than ever in "Pitch Perfect 2." 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The choir is composed of Haitian migrants and their descendants, singing mostly in Creole. ArtsBeat: Creole Choir of Cuba Brings Island's Music to Brooklyn 2011-06-03T18:37:23Z

He favors undulating guitars, voices woven into choirs, a shimmering sense of space. Album review: Lindsey Buckingham, 'Seeds We Sow' 2011-09-06T03:27:00Z

Knight’s support allowed the “Hallelujah” performance to escalate wildly, eventually involving 28 groups — “everything from the Presbyterian church choir to the Gay Men’s Chorus,” Mr. Devan said. It?s Not Candid Camera, It?s Random Culture 2011-02-05T22:18:03Z

“I don’t want to be remembered in 100 years time as the chief destroyer of boys’ choirs,” he said, with a nervous laugh. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

His last major performances with the choir and Concert Royal were of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in March and Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” in May. John Scott, Organist and Choirmaster, Dies at 59 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

They both belonged to a church choir and attended concerts by the local symphony orchestra. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

Skating fell into the background as Ms. Hall Moran joined a busy choir at her public high school that performed internationally, attended Barnard College and then started her music career. ‘Breaking Ice’ Makes Music From a Classic Skating Rivalry 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

And sing it they did, with the Hungarian Army Men's Choir, assisted by other choirs, giving the "full volume" Wagner lovers their money's worth. A new temple to Wagner on the Danube, not Rhine 2011-06-23T13:58:45Z

Bob Geldof on stage at Live 8 with George Michael, Paul McCartney and a children's choir. Bob Geldof: Gleneagles G8 summit was a triumph for Africa – and Tony Blair 2013-03-02T21:30:03Z

Classical music will play in bookstores and petrol stations, while children’s choirs will sing in corporate offices and parks. Romania's Enescu music festival thrives in shaky political times 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The inspirational, exuberant production by Langston Hughes returns to The Moore, driven by Pastor Pat Wright's choir. 14 Seattle entertainment picks for Dec. 18-24 2011-12-15T21:08:00Z

Despite the sauce, Bramwell never loosens his grip on songs that range from folk to psychedelia, choirs to clarinets, Acker Bilk to Beatles. I Am Kloot: Sky at Night 2010-12-09T22:20:00Z

Mr. Jefferson, 49, performed alongside his choir from the Abundant Life Tabernacle in New Orleans, as did Mr. Kagler, 36, the choir director. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The long evening of food and libations ended with a performance by a Georgian chanting choir, assembled at the last minute, and was proclaimed a resounding success. Is Georgian cuisine the next big thing? These enthusiasts hope so. 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The hospital employs 350 people and donates to dozens of local events and youth groups, including the high school choir, band and basketball teams and the annual Christmas in the Park. Courtroom battle splits star's Oklahoma hometown 2012-01-26T12:49:10Z

He joined a school choir at 7 and soon pursued private vocal lessons. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

A choir member, saxophone player and piano player, Frantsuzhan studied music in Ukraine for eight years. 17-year-old Ukrainian student says if he doesn't stay in America, he'll 'die in war' 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

They have been rehearsing weekly, four or five at a time, since the second week of November, spaced out across the choir loft with individual music stands. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

The band and choir come in around the four-minute mark, yet they don’t unleash their full power, and the song keeps simmering. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, we are deafened by a cacophony of memoirs and first-person narratives — “a choir made up of soloists.” One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The heavenly choirs will forever sing to a salsa beat 3. Colombian salsa star Arroyo dies 2011-07-26T17:27:32Z

The necessary funds were apparently found, since the concerts have continued, along with the participation of Trinity’s extraordinary choir in Sunday morning and Compline services. Music Review: ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-12-28T23:48:01Z

The Philadelphia-based composer, 29, has employed facial mapping and tracking to turn an ensemble of laptops into a voiceless choir. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

There was the high-impact moodiness of Flying Lotus, whose set was a lurching stop-start collection of galloping percussion, subterranean bass heaves, blippy electronics and ominous dirges, complete with choir and church bells. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Rest assured that the professionals, including the Cathedral’s distinguished organist and director of music, Kent Tritle, along with the Cathedral choirs, will be on hand. #RefugeinMusic at St. John the Divine 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

But these Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are tweeting to the choir – Trunk rightly noted that, to most people, publishers are not household names. Want to help books survive? Promote authors yourself 2012-07-20T14:01:02Z

The Crossing, an acclaimed chamber choir, joins ICE for these bold programs. Exploring Jesus and Josephine Baker Through Music 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The video, directed by David Javier, takes place in a moody, shadowy church where the voices of a choir propel Buck to contemplate his struggles as a Black man. Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

"I was in six different choirs growing up. 'Pitch Perfect' really kept it true to the a cappella culture," said Tatiana Santana, 30, from Los Angeles. Aca-awesome: 'Pitch Perfect 2' premiere draws hordes of fans 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

“The choir director finally noticed and talked to the assistant principal, and Andy stopped for a little bit, but then he started back up again during junior year.” Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert, saluting the crowd as the “largest choir ever assembled,” said that he was truly touched by the performance. Review: Alan Gilbert Leads One Last Dance in Central Park 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

"Another Secret eQuation" is for quartet and irresistible children's choir. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

She still lived with her mother on Oahu in Hawaii, where she was focused on choir, AP classes and a budding interest in microbiology. Auli’i Cravalho on Her New Netflix Drama and the Smell of Wet Dog 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

She thrilled the crowd with Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” from 1989 — the last year the Bengals were in the big game — turning her backup singers into a small gospel choir. Miley Cyrus, Green Day span decades in pre-Super Bowl show 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

Brass choirs in the fourth and fifth movements were strong and well-balanced. Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Israel Philharmonic in ‘Resurrection’ 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

There’s a weird melody line, part flute and part digitized ghost choir. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z

He said the solo choir had performed very well, especially the second soprano, for singing a part which is quite difficult to keep in tune and which holds the group together. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z

At the very least, "Sea Songs" should make a bit of musical history, in that it's penned for soprano saxophone, jazz string quintet and 24-voice choir – not exactly conventional forces. Bringing a jazz pulse to e.e. cummings and friends 2011-03-14T13:54:10Z

In my favorite version, by the British early-music group the Taverner Choir, Consort, and Players, the soloist is wonderfully incisive and riled up, and the choir is thunderous. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Vowels were so elongated amid the layers created by the 24 voices of this superb choir that it proved almost impossible to follow along with the text provided in the program book. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Conducted by Ronnie Oliver Jr., the choir sounded pungent and secure. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

Snowstorms grew too thick, a clown fight exploded into an ecstatic riot, a children's choir sang for days on end, slowly collapsing to the floor one by one. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z

“Friends and neighbors/that’s where it’s at,” the choir intones, its living intentions represented by the ditty and its lo-fi recording — four minutes of almost punk simplicity. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

The film’s milieu was inspired by a national gospel choir competition he attended in Newark a few years ago. Todd Graff Sticks to His Favorite Genre in ?Joyful Noise? 2012-01-06T21:31:48Z

That's what I really wanted," she sighs, "to be in the choir, but I didn't have a good enough voice. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

Backed mostly by just piano and organ — a choir shows up near the end — Ms. Houston moves from questioning to affirmation to serene faith. Playlist : New Music by Lianne La Havas, Jovanotti, Blonds and Opossom 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z

And the Latvian radio choir's singing was even more startling in Marahi and The Summer's Cloud's Awakening. Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-09T18:51:30Z

His choir, from which the soloists are taken, remains matchless. Classical Playlist: Steve Reich, Mendelssohn, Bach and More 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Unless, perhaps, you're a member of the Green Valley High School choir and you want a chance to sing on stage with the Rolling Stones. Nevada high school choir will back Rolling Stones 2013-05-10T17:24:17Z

As individual, fragmented melody lines converge into group harmonies, the effect is often that of a liturgical choir. ArtsBeat: Nothing Rings True Like Authenticity 2011-07-26T18:21:23Z

In middle school, he said, he overcame his shyness and joined a choir. Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

The parade of beautiful numbers, the soloist standing up and sitting down, the choir standing up and sitting down — that formalized visual approach is not what Handel was after. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z

We beefed up the experience with an eight-person choir, and the thick and lustrous sound made everyone feel fantastic. | Designing a Dream Daytime Wedding 2014-02-06T14:00:33Z

Starring the cast of the hit television show about a high school choir, "Glee" had weak box-office sales, though it was cheap to produce and could yet turn a profit. Analysis: Fox wounded, but not because of News Corp crisis 2011-09-30T21:51:53Z

He compared the mood created by fluttering flames to the tremolo of a voice singing in a church choir. A Panorama of Design 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

While reticent at first, the choir unexpectedly showed up at the studio a few hours later. Refugees in Calais ‘Jungle’ Record an Album 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In Manger Square, visitors were entertained by choirs singing carols, bagpipe players and a Palestinian scouts’ marching band. Christmas cheer at Jesus's traditional birthplace of Bethlehem 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The acoustics must be the best in the world – the music, the choir and the singing were beautiful beyond belief. Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z

The effect when the student choir performed the work, even though the words were foreign to everyone in the audience, was universal, Aamodt said. Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer whose works gave voice to revolution, dies at 86 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

While riding that creaky coaster, six teenagers — all members of a school choir — met their gruesome ends when their car leapt the tracks. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

In fact it's a repetitive dirge, that's so knowing in its dirgey repetitiveness that it sneakily gets a choir in to make it seem less repetitive. This week's new singles 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

It's sure to be a favourite with choirs up and down the country for many Christmases to come. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z

The choir sang with buoyant pulse, crisp diction and a polished sound far removed from the ecstatic and raw style typical of shape-note singing. Music Review: The Early American Songbook, Reclaimed 2010-12-07T21:27:00Z

The record is filled with booming electronic drums, bittersweet Carnatic violin melodies, hushed gospel choirs and swarms of feedback. Rafiq Bhatia Is Writing His Own Musical Language 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Battle, who is from Miami, was focused on music, playing piano and singing in the church choir, before starting dance training in high school. Robert Battle Finally Has His Steps in the Spotlight 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

A choir teacher inspired her interest in vocal music, and Ms. Juntwait graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in 1980. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Last month's album from the Malawi Mouse Boys was a set of classy village music, and now comes a rousing and unlikely youth choir. Umoza: Tumbuka Voices – review 2012-06-28T21:15:06Z

As I moved upstairs I took in fleeting glimpses of Queen's Cross’s meandering streets through stairway windows and got panoramic vantages of the entire space from the intimate second floor choir. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

And that’s how the “St. Matthew Passion” came across on Thursday at Carnegie Hall, with Bernard Labadie leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, along with three choirs and a half-dozen soloists. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

What marks it out is the school's willingness to set its sparkling chamber choir the challenge of performing uncompromisingly modern music to the highest professional standard. Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z

It’s a lot on a lot on a lot, and occasionally involves literal preaching to the choir — though of course, that how you make ’em sing. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Her new album “Star-Crossed” is filled with expensive-sounding pop songs sung flat and plain — no florid residue of a try-hard voice forged in show choir, glee club or a televised singing contest. Review | Kacey Musgraves made a divorce album that sounds like easy-listening 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

And the theatricality of surrounding the duet with Tapestry, a choir that sang religious music by Rachmaninoff and Tomás Luis de Victoria — was striking. Ballet Festival: Skill (Check), Class (Yep), Vision (More, Please) 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

“The cool thing about the choir is that it is 100 percent in the spirit of the Games,” he said. The tale of the 2,018-person choir: a kickoff to Special Olympics in Seattle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

A 14th-century Florentine choir book depicts the Last Supper as a kind of pulpy melodrama. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z

The center provides anonymous H.I.V. testing, practice rooms for a men’s choir, yoga and dance classes. How Gay Art Survives in Beijing, as Censors Tighten Grip 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

"God, those sequins were awful," he said, recalling the choir costumes. The nice guy who puts the mean into 'Glee' 2010-10-23T00:12:00Z

Originally developed from cabaret performances in Canada, it’s about a group of school choir kids who meet their grisly ends when the roller coaster they are riding malfunctions. ‘Ride the Cyclone’ Takes the Kids Up and Down and Into Purgatory 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Don’t fake it baby, lay the real thing on me,” the choir joined in with a bold sound, singing a slightly altered version of Bowie’s lyrics. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

In pursuing her investigation — which also includes the travesty of bringing a healing, soul-restoring shaman to choir practice — Claire becomes ever angrier at the emptiness of the results. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“We have to move beyond the Bridge,” she tells them, and a man in the choir loft leaps up. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Perth, named after the Australian city, is a "Civil War-sounding heavy metal song" with martial drums, choir and "wailing guitars". Bon Iver announces details of second album 2011-03-24T12:48:10Z

His aesthetic, where he sometimes looked like the lead soloist in a rock-and-roll choir, served as a reminder that the sacred and the profane are intertwined. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

As honorary general editor of the Church Music Society for many years, he was responsible for a number of publications which now form the staple diet of church, cathedral and collegiate choirs across the world. Richard Marlow 2013-07-02T12:04:53Z

It’s a hymnlike song that welcomed a backup choir and a big buildup on the way to a climactic, “Someday we’ll all be free.” The Best and Worst of the 2021 Grammy Awards 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, it was a shock on May 31, 2009, when Roeder entered the building and shot Tiller as he performed his usher duties, with his wife Jeanne singing up front in the choir. Wichita resumes its fight for reproductive freedom 2013-04-12T14:49:00Z

That one note darkens the tone from ecstasy to assonance, from the choir to the blues. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

The church fills; there’s a chorus, dancers, a children’s choir, another choir, a marching band, pretaped sounds. Review: ‘Mass’ Brings Out the Worst in Leonard Bernstein 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

“Breathing Underwater” boosts Ms. Sandé with a gospel choir as she testifies, almost incredulously, to finding strength in spirituality. Emeli Sandé’s ‘Long Live the Angels’ Is Uncluttered and Strong 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But in 1980s Wales, as English-owned holiday cottages were razed and English signposts defaced, the prevailing soundtrack of harps, choirs and traditional folk songs just wasn't enough for a new generation of militants. Label of love: Ankst 2010-05-06T10:34:00Z

Ronda, a church choir veteran, recorded a version of the song in her car featuring her kids and friends. Songs about generators and Spam? New Puerto Rican music reflects the island’s resilience. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sounds from around the world … Gary Barlow with a children's choir in Kenya. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z

In “Singularity” and “Old Friend,” the four vocalists each sang three different parts, thus creating a 12-voice choir. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

He played a few instruments and “quit everything in 9th grade,” only to join the choir his final year of high school. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Both parents and all the brothers sang in the church choir and played stringed instruments or the concertina by ear. Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Singer With a Booming Tenor, Dies at 79 2013-08-26T02:29:11Z

CARACAS, Venezuela — The frail elderly man and his curly- haired protégé made their way through a narrow aisle between two lines of a singing choir. ArtsBeat: A Musical Exchange in Venezuela: El Sistema Performs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2012-02-17T00:04:15Z

“Credo,” for 12 choirs of 12 singers each, surrounding the audience, six double basses and recorded church bells, was intended not for the outdoors but for a cathedral or a similarly reverberant space. Make Music New York in Review: One Day, a Thousand Concerts, to Celebrate Summer 2013-06-23T21:40:13Z

I am part of chamber choir, and last year the seniors in the program approached me with the idea of having me play the piano and sing at their prom. All Dressed Up, With No Prom to Go To 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Contemporary gospel music and traditional African music and dance by African children’s choir, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-12T17:24:35Z

Details are still being worked out — such as whether to hide the choir — but at the very least, Sorey said, it will “become more intensified” than the presentation in Houston. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

As a gospel choir sang “Sea of Love,” Ms. Levitt did stutter steps to and fro, as the guests hooted their approval. A Picture-Perfect Wedding in the Big Easy 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In the chapel at King’s College, Cambridge, their linked initials are visible on the elaborately carved choir screen. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

I experienced both as videos: One shows a voiceless choir, the other a soundless orchestra. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The choir made its exhilarating United States debut on Saturday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the ¡Sí Cuba! Music Review: Cuban Visitors Share Sounds and Moves of Their Roots 2011-06-05T22:07:40Z

I thought I knew how a choir was supposed to sound, traditionally. Ellie Goulding Likes Her ’90s Rock Political and Her Social Media Inspiring 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mitchell will perform on July 8; Ms. Eder will appear July 22, backed by a choir from the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, a publicist for the theater said. ArtsBeat: Brian Stokes Mitchell to Perform in New Town Hall Concert Series 2013-05-22T15:44:27Z

As many people observed on Twitter, the morning’s aesthetic had a Teletubbies feel, and the choir resembled the Tethered, from the movie “Us.” Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The choir she imagines, which eventually appears to her, is plenty creepy. ‘Once You Break a Knuckle,’ by D. W. Wilson, and More 2014-01-29T22:31:57Z

“In our church, there was no choir — everybody played guitars and sang harmony,” she said. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z

As well as giving them experience on stage, the choir will also benefit the children with the transition between schools, Wood explains. Choral story 2011-06-28T07:03:20Z

At 12 he joined a choir conducted by a prominent cantor, Joshua Samuel Weisser, who featured him as a soloist on a Yiddish-language radio program. Ben Zion Shenker, Rabbi Who Wrote Prayer Melodies, Dies at 91 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Chamber Opera's orchestra, choir and soloists performed Tuesday to the hearty applause of hundreds of people. Polish orchestra plays Mozart's Requiem in protest 2012-05-29T16:25:08Z

You end up at the choir rehearsal room for their final songs of the evening. Outdoors ? review 2011-03-11T21:45:01Z

He looked to his right to see Igor Stravinsky sitting, very elegantly dressed, in the curve of the piano while the Russian composer's close collaborator, Robert Craft, conducted the choir. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z

Many major choirs here have made it clear they will not be mixing choirs on a daily basis. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

I used to sing in a choir and I noticed the rash would be most severe in the days after practice. Experience: I have lived in the dark for a decade 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

A full choir is also present, rising to sing at regular intervals. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Of that, the choir filled only about three. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

She is from a family of musicians, so singing in an ensemble, she said — whether it was musical theater or show choir — meant learning to breathe with others and sound like one voice. Ashley Nicole Black Is Her Own Competition 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

To the dismay of some of his peers, King’s father allowed his church’s choir to perform at the premiere. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Four of the 2012's top 10 Christian and gospel albums were recorded by the King's College choir. New UK Christian music chart pledged 2013-03-06T11:31:55Z

At 9 a.m., she would try to squeeze in one more rehearsal with the choir. For Musicians This Easter, Still Looking to Soar in Empty Spaces 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Ronnie Oliver Jr. leads the school’s chamber choir and double wind quintet in a rendition of Stravinsky’s “Mass.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:38:38Z

I had two different choirs and I was still doing recitals and chamber music, and I was already conducting my Baroque ensemble. After a Punishing Sprint, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Can Celebrate 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

But Harry Christophers and his hand-picked choir The Sixteen seem determined to buck the trend, taking up residence at the Southbank Centre for the holiday weekend. Music picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

They are "joyously surreal, set in landscapes full of toffee, deferential choirs of badgers, heavenly water-slides and velvet chairs," she said. JP Martin's elephant Uncle unforgotten in fan's republishing plan 2013-03-27T17:06:55Z

The church’s acoustics still favored a big, diffuse sound rather than a clear, pointed one, but the choir’s energy and diction were suddenly more focused. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

In a grand hall in New Orleans that was once home to Confederate artifacts, she overlaid recordings of three choirs performing “A City Called Heaven,” a utopian Black spiritual. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Activities for children and a choir will enliven the festivities. In Bowling Green, an Alsatian Holiday Market 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

SUN Contemporary gospel music and traditional African music and dance by African children’s choir, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-25T16:35:26Z

Backed by a choir, Leon Bridges and Mavis Staples took the crowd to church on “Not Enough.” Grammy weekend kicks off with honor for Dolly Parton 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

He was a football player, a left tackle built for the express purpose of being an offensive lineman, and he sang in the choir with me. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z

The choir takes over, and Franklin, thus supported, revives and draws the song to its close. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The slow movement, a theme and variations form, began with a solo clarinet playing a melancholic melody against a mellow choir of strings. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Then, this fall, as it prepared for its Carnegie debut, the choir rehearsed in Kyiv for the first time since the start of the war. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The momentum is crisp and nonstop as the songs draw on — among many other things — Zulu choir singing, electronic dance music, alt-R&B and the patterns of West African marimbas and Zimbabwean thumb pianos. Burna Boy Has the Whole World Listening 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Still, she adored the classical repertoire, which she performed as a first alto in Howard’s nationally renowned concert choir. Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“He told me that he was telling the choir to think outside the box on the previous album, and on this one, he’s preaching to the choir because he didn’t want to lose his audience.” ArtsBeat: Popcast: Brad Paisley Proudly Preaches to the Choir 2011-05-12T18:00:51Z

And choir directors and coaches and neighbors and dealers and family friends who take an interest. The dark side of David Bowie: As the mourning goes on, we can’t ignore his history with underaged groupies in ’70s 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Britten's magnificent if uneven War Requiem, an amalgam of the Requiem mass with poems by Wilfred Owen, calls on large orchestra and chamber ensemble, two choirs and soloists. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

The actress will play a substitute teacher who falls for high school choir leader Will Schuester and is expected to sing 3 or 4 solos in an episode airing in mid-November. Gwyneth Paltrow to make country music debut 2010-10-20T23:06:00Z

The choir also offers the potential of perfectly terraced dynamics, sudden bits of counterpoint and the attention-getting clicks and growls of African languages. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z

A few months later, all 220 members of these new choirs – who all operate, naturally, under the name Only Boys Aloud – performed at Wales's national arts festival, the National Eisteddfod. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

And even the choir turned against him once, booing loudly when a bit in which he invited women to take selfies with him went on for too long. R. Kelly preaches to the choir at the Saban Theatre 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

His latest movie, “Joyful Noise,” opening nationally on Friday, is another variation on that theme, this time following a choir working against all odds to get to a national competition. Todd Graff Sticks to His Favorite Genre in ?Joyful Noise? 2012-01-06T21:31:48Z

A member of the Chapel Royal, the household choir of the English monarchs, he was buried in Westminster on Dec. 21, 1558. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The four soloists, separate from the choir, sang with clarity and earnestness; the violins of Concert Royal played with spirited attack. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

And I see the glow on the faces of the choir as though they are a mirror reflecting what the audience is doing. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Presenting images of protest to the average leftie art audience is surely preaching to the choir. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z

However, his only musical involvement in prison was with the prisoners’ choir. We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

As a child she sang "a bit too loudly" in her primary school choir and was a "precocious" pianist who could compose in the style of Mozart or Debussy when aged 10. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

A radiologist at Kaiser Permanente — one of the sponsors of the Games — Lombard, 56, saw a notice about the choir at work. The tale of the 2,018-person choir: a kickoff to Special Olympics in Seattle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Within its elaborate frame, an angelic choir sings, saints and sinners gather round the lamb with its half human face, and faraway hills are dotted with towers and spires. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Goehr's To Those Dark Steps/ The Fathers Are Watching, for tenor, children's choir and ensemble, sets poetry and prose by the Israeli poet Gabriel Levin. BCMG/Knussen – review 2012-10-02T17:12:31Z

The performing arts wing will provide space for school plays, choir and band concerts and art exhibits. Scott City school safe room to pair with theater 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The idea of having Grace’s Christian choir practicing in her room during the meeting was cute the first time a hymn interrupted the bare-knuckles political talk, not so cute the second and third times. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Lies and More Lies, and Alicia's Big Decision 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

The Lebanese British pop singer Mika, known for songs like “Lollipop,” “Grace Kelly” and “Happy Endings/Over My Shoulder,” takes his talents to the Paris Philharmonic, where he performs with the orchestra and a choir. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Vow’ and ‘American Horror Story’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

I've got more sense now and have quite a soft spot for male voice choirs. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

The remaining costs of the choir, whose former members include composer Franz Schubert and conductor Hans Richter, are covered by private donations and sponsors. Vienna Boys' Choir faces crisis over rent bill 2013-07-17T15:40:37Z

It’s intricately layered — at times all-out rock, at other times complete noise, at others a somber choir. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

So The Daily Show host made his point that it’s no real shock “even Jon Stewart” would mock the president’s plans with nothing less than a full gospel choir singing “Go f— yourself.” Watch Jon Stewart's 11 Best 'Daily Show' Takedowns 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

It was a voice in the celebratory choir of the wedding, though it didn’t carry the melody. On the power of a shared glass 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

In high school in Mountain View, Calif., he did everything — choir, debate, plays, student government, newspaper. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

In Chichester he had enjoyed singing with the choir but that opportunity was not available to him at school in the US, where singing was considered "effeminate" and "shameful" among the boys. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

The concert was a late appendage to a European tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of the choir’s founding by Mr. Gardiner, in 1964. Bachfest Celebrates Monteverdi Choir’s 50th Anniversary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Amy Aamodt, the school choir director at the time, explained how the choir first took on the difficult piece around 2010 with hesitancy as they sang in the original Estonian — but quickly became enthralled. Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer whose works gave voice to revolution, dies at 86 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Acevedo is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, where she directs two a cappella choirs: the University of Puerto Rico Chorus, a student group, and Coralia, made up of students and alumni. Creativity From the Chaos of Hurricane Maria 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Some of the rhythms are tricky for the choir.” A Church Remembers Avicii, With Hits Instead of Hymns 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The album, released last year, is a roiling blend of experimental art-rock with processed classical choirs, electronic production and earthy lyrics delivered in her native language. Pop & Rock Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In three years it grew to 300 students in five choirs. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

“It’s minor, but it keeps trying to go to major,” Mr. Machover explained to the St. Joseph choir members about the key of the melodic kernel in that bursting final movement. Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She wears knee socks and sings with her wholesome family choir, the Singing Singleberries. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Sunday simply happened to be one of the few dates on which both the choir and the auditorium, on the Princeton University campus, were available. Bachfest Celebrates Monteverdi Choir’s 50th Anniversary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The choir is now taking protective measures like spacing singers at least six feet apart and keeping the hall’s large windows open, though they don’t wear masks. At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Click here to watch the choir of King's College, Cambridge perform Ding Dong Merrily on High A few years ago, Stephen Cleobury received a furious letter. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z

Cleobury explains: "It's essential to introduce new works into this repertoire, because the church and church choirs do well to embrace as broad a spectrum of music as they can." The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z

Republicans are expected to dismiss Obama's "day in the life" road trips as preaching to the choir. Obama aims for 'day in the life' of Minnesota woman 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

They were active in their local Baptist church, where his father led the choir. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

How the eight choirs related to one another was less clear in Mr. Van Nevel’s reading. Music Review: Huelgas Ensemble at White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-11T23:05:06Z

You could imagine yourself in a pew, head bowed as you listened to her sing “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,” and all would be missing is a children’s choir and the smell of incense. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Finn was a central character on the show, a high school football star turned choir member who defended the school's misfits and played an integral part in advancing the series' theme of tolerance. 'Glee' says goodbye to Finn in tribute to late actor Monteith 2013-10-11T05:45:29Z

They prove once again that Valley Boys have more options open to them than joining the local choir with some throat ripping pop-hardcore. My Chemical Romance bring the theatrics to Reading festival 2011 2011-08-27T11:30:00Z

In 2010, allegations surfaced about the use of corporal punishment on boys in the choir. Famous German boys’ choir to add new choir for girls 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

“We were authentic singers of the liturgy in this modern age,” he said of his choir, which sings daily services much as Sheppard’s did. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Apostles, Royal Albert Hall, SW7, 10 Aug, royalalberthall.com Conductor Mark Elder, the Hallé choir and a fine sextet of soloists bring their superb account of Elgar's oratorio to London. London 2012 event listings 10 August: what's on during the Olympics 2012-08-08T12:24:37Z

The music included 14 choir pieces focused on worship and nontraditional hymns, as well as reworked versions of songs by No Doubt and Nirvana. Kanye West attracts thousands to Wyoming for worship service 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

For example, Johnson sings in a church choir alongside professors from the music department. 6 reasons to go on a family road trip to Pullman (in addition to football) 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

But every now and then the church imports a similarly constituted choir from England, and on Tuesday evening it presented one of the most venerable, the Choir of New College, Oxford. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z

Franklin dotted the night with lighthearted jokes and playfully directed his live band and dependable choir, the audience, as he ran through his catalogue of seemingly endless gospel hits. Kirk Franklin makes gospel music feel like a party 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

His father was a minister and he sang in church choirs before leaving home for Los Angeles as a young man to break into the music business. 'Hundred Pounds of Clay' singer McDaniels dies 2011-08-04T18:23:08Z

“Stay With Me” is far more indebted to traditional choir gospel than to Mr. Petty’s meditative country-rock. What’s Wrong With the ‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Ruling 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

It was in that red brick church on a quiet backstreet near downtown Newark where Houston's career began as a soloist in a gospel choir in the 1970s. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z

I listen to the choir singing for a minute longer, then head down New College Lane. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The tradition of the men and boys choir is most often associated with Britain, where it is maintained more fervently than anywhere else. Westminster Abbey’s men and boys choir delights at National Cathedral

Her first serious work was “I Dream,” a set of songs for choir and band. Amina Claudine Myers, a Singer Who Still Needs No Words 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Before the war, she'd been a pub pianist, so the "nasal choir" bit with people humming round a piano was a homage. How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z

Mr. Gilbert and the Philharmonic players mirrored his precision and warmth, and contributed memorable moments of their own, most notably the otherworldly wind choirs at the start of the closing Adagio. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z

She also performed in Europe and Asia and at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and sang in church choirs, including that of the Rev. Al Green’s Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. Ruby Wilson, Singer Known as Queen of Beale Street, Dies at 68 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

And the choir sang melodies that lay in some part of the dense original work, their words based on the titles and the ideas therein, their voices arranged into simple harmonies. Music Review: Reggie Workman and Eric Reed at Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:55:47Z

In a typical year, the choir performs in religious services in the college chapel several times a week and tours worldwide. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The song “Only Children” sounds like it has a celestial choir in the background. Summertime, and the living is uneasy for Jason Isbell 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

He’s big enough that he was asked to perform at the American Music Awards Sunday night, complete with gospel choir. Macklemore’s new Very Special song: Do we really need a Bono for hip hop? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The starving choir, whose numbers were repeatedly depleted as members were sent to their deaths, sang Verdi’s “Requiem” — a Roman Catholic funeral Mass that offers a searing depiction of Judgment Day — 16 times. Murry Sidlin Conducts ‘Defiant Requiem,’ a Tribute to Defiance With Verdi 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Not on the runway but on the shift dresses of an all-female choir that provided the music for the show. Who’s a Fashion Victim Now? 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

A gospel choir, clad in black, joined in later on to complement Underwood’s husky vocals. Watch Carrie Underwood's Awesome CMT Performance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The choir paid most of the costs of rebuilding the Augarten Palace after it was badly damaged in the Second World War, using the proceeds of its first U.S. tour in 1948. Vienna Boys' Choir faces crisis over rent bill 2013-07-17T15:40:37Z

Then the girls’ choir, entering the hall from the aisles, sang a stark passage from a speech by Clara Lemlich, an activist leading a strike. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

How he discovered the organ: Weismann got his first taste of the power of the organ when he started singing in the choir of his local Catholic church. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

School, homework, tag rugby, football, choir, swimming lessons, cinema, birthday parties, eating out. My son’s Down’s syndrome does not define him 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Choral Arts, however, is an unsalaried, volunteer choir. Think the logistics of a family trip are tough? Try 2 weeks in China for 100 singers. 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

"Choir Boy," for example, revolves around an elite prep school for African American boys with a renowned choir that is headed by a student who is seen as effeminate. The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

In that episode Mr. Criss — playing a gay member of a high school choir being eyed by a series regular — sang vocals covering “Teenage Dream,” a pop hit by Katy Perry. Darren Criss of ?Glee? Fills Daniel Radcliffe?s Shoes 2012-01-02T18:51:19Z

But that is likely a minority of opinionated people who either perceive they are preaching to the choir or are up for the fight. Pew Study: Why Don't You Speak Your Mind On Facebook (or Twitter)? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The Christians West Coast premiere of Lucas Hnath's drama about an evangelical pastor inspired to chart a new course for his congregation; features a live choir of local singers. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 13-20: 'The Christians' and more 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The 100-plus ensemble made a mammoth sound, fulfilling Fischer's goal of getting the choir more involved in the action than is traditional in Wagner stagings. A new temple to Wagner on the Danube, not Rhine 2011-06-23T13:58:45Z

"I always sang in church choir, and I'd bring all my children along to encourage them to sing too." 'Black Nativity' performer shines a light 2011-12-16T17:14:03Z

On songs such as “Grand Central” and “Saddle,” the baritone singer warbles like a church soloist, while the smoldering “Be There Soon” boasts a holy-sounding choir and spare organ. Best of 2016: 14 criminally underrated albums that came out this year 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The performance was well-received, and the choir reassembled for two subsequent “Messiah” concerts. Norman Scribner, who founded D.C. Choral Arts Society, dies at 79 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

This concept of blending "found sounds" with orchestra likely heightens the audience's awareness of the various spectrum of audio voices that the choirs and orchestral instruments are making. How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

He was best known for his orchestral and choir compositions like “St. Luke Passion” and “Seven Gates of Jerusalem,” although his range was much broader. Composer Penderecki’s state funeral held after 2-year delay 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Trinity doled out Handel’s solos to the members of its choir. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

The audience listened attentively as the local choirs evoked more than two centuries of their city’s history and struggles. How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Many of the pieces on the program are either for double choir or a choir that’s divided up in many parts. Seattle Pro Musica’s ‘Lucis’ explores 3-D ‘spheres’ of sound 2013-05-16T19:37:07Z

Four lithe young dancers, choreographed by Gillian Abbott, and collective leaps by the flute choir contributed to a tone of exuberance. Music Review | Carol Wincenc: Carol Wincenc Leads Flutists at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2010-04-01T21:56:00Z

He mastered the ondes martenot, an electric keyboard instrument from the 1920s that can mimic a string section, or a flute, or a choir of ghosts imprisoned in vacuum tubes. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z

Tazewell Thompson’s bracing new a cappella musical “Jubilee” is about a choir, and it’s told in a nearly unbroken cascade of song. Review | ‘Jubilee’ makes a star of the chorus at Arena Stage 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The roots of Nuut’s idiosyncratic career date to her childhood in Rakvere, in northern Estonia, where her mother was a choir conductor. Estonian musician finds her voice digging in the library stacks 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Even the children's choir that arrives around the three-minute mark is just there to facilitate the gloom. New music - Phoenix – Entertainment (Blood Orange Remix) 2013-03-26T11:30:00Z

Bellinger understands the power of multiple voices at once, how a choir can turn the banal into something sublime. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

What do you get when you toss together a brassy grifter, an Elvish-speaking anagrammist, a show choir and, oh yes, a teenager with a life-threatening genetic condition? Tony Predictions: Expect Wins for ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

But still there is the perpetual lament from all choir leaders - where are all the men? Why don't men join choirs? 2013-06-13T14:46:00Z

In 2016, Mr. Pierce interrupted the making of “And Nothing Hurt” for near-20th-anniversary performances, with gospel choir and orchestra, of the beloved 1997 Spiritualized album “Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space.” Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

The sound of that bumper — the static, the choir — remains Pavlovian in its promise. ‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Sounds of Discontent My church has a volunteer choir, which has collected a number of people who are tone-deaf and unwilling to rehearse. Social Q?s: My Plate Is Full. Yours Is Borrowed. 2010-12-30T22:16:22Z

But for the choir members, the responsibilities and significance felt even more immense. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

It’s an experience, this record, written in big riffs and celestial choirs and digital static. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

And now and then, there are glimpses within the music, like a magnificent, purple-suited choir joining Beyoncé to sing “Spirit” a cappella. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

The music of the second half moved from the Danube through Pakistan and Taiwan, past Namibia and a Native American tribe and back to the choir’s home territory, the Danube. Vienna Boys Choir brought down the house with a program of folk songs — and drums

Every Sunday the choir and band would sing and play uplifting music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

“Rothko Chapel” and “Monochromatic Light,” both spacious yet intimate, share a certain ritualistic sobriety, with a choir textlessly hovering over soft, somber beats of percussion. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

And there was no D.I.Y. way to present a concert that called for a cinema screen, full orchestra and choir — not to mention a big enough performance space for those forces. ‘The Tree of Life’ Unfurls, With a Live Orchestra and Choir 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

An organist played Mr. Hamlisch’s theme from the movie “Ice Castles,” and the service featured a choir’s performance of “The Way We Were.” Marvin Hamlisch Funeral at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan 2012-08-14T21:46:29Z

Some churches, like Trinity Church Wall Street in Manhattan, are downsizing choirs and orchestras that might number more than 80 members to single-digit choristers for services they are streaming without congregations. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

While the choir was never intended as a public-performing unit, a commander likes what he hears and beckons the group to Royal Albert Hall. ‘Military Wives’ Review: Unlikely Choir, Familiar Frictions 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Motown star and soul singer was born and raised in the District, and he developed his voice there, in the choir of his father’s church. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

To mix religious metaphors, it delivered a full-throated sermon to the choir it characterized as more enlightened than the poor saps in Trumpland. Borat v Trump: can entertainment really affect an election? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

I was like, well, how am I going to join a choir, I’m an atheist and I have a terrible voice. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z

In 1891, the choir was a kind of object symbolizing a British view of Africa: dark and impenetrable rather than individual, capable human beings. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

The choir of this church, which presented one of the first American “Messiah” performances in 1770, teams up with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and soloists for its annual, reliably masterful concert of Handel’s oratorio. A New Yorker’s Guide to the Silvery Sounds of the Season 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Julian Wachner conducts his excellent choir in Rachmaninoff’s unreasonably beautiful “Vespers.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“It was always someone who played piano, you had this choir singing at the house, normal African American communal in-house music.” At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

It has been sampled, synthesized, and arranged for clarinet choir, electric guitar, marimbas and brass band. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

“Thereafter,” the obituary continued, “the choir replaced the offending word with ‘fa-la-la-la.’ Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

There was also a request for a red runner to pave the way to the altar, “and someone asked me for a boys’ choir,” Ms. Gregoli said. Field Notes: Requesting the Royal Treatment 2011-05-06T17:36:16Z

The story was inspired by Doris Troy, Higginsen’s older sister, who was a choir girl in her father’s Harlem church and later became a soul singer, known for her 1960s chart hit “Just One Look.” ‘Mama, I Want to Sing!’ Returns for 40th Anniversary 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Pierce is a savvy producer; no matter how dense the arrangements – strings, horns and choirs piled atop guitar, bass, drums and keyboards – he leaves a clear path for the melody. Album review: Spiritualized, 'Sweet Heart Sweet Light' 2012-04-16T14:44:00Z

Polanski says nothing of especial interest, but his good humour, especially at the end, as an Estonian girls' choir belts out something folksy beneath his massive face, is impressive indeed. The 10 best film award acceptance speeches ? video 2011-01-16T00:05:28Z

Currently leading a community folk choir at the Roundhouse, London, 27 March. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z

His father was a pastor, and Mr. Jean became the church’s choir director. Music: Musician Wyclef Jean Running for President of Haiti 2010-08-05T17:06:00Z

The prison choir that I sang in needed a piano player, and they needed one quickly. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

“Vigilance a.k.a. Dust Room,” sits at the gallery’s center: A white box of two-by-fours and plywood, rigged with shop fans on timers, sounds like a choir of leaf blowers. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in March 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Like Turner, she is a preacher’s daughter, and sang in the church choir. From Annie to Tina Turner, and Trained to Go the Distance 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Leonard Cohen’s quiet, humble song received its grandest treatment in 2010, when Michael Bolton bellowed its lyrics while surrounded by smoke machines and a children’s choir on an episode of “Dancing With the Stars.” How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

But that doesn't necessarily mean that the New Directions choir will be getting there....stay tuned. "Glee" writers drop hints about season No. 2 2010-07-13T19:07:00Z

Humble, charming little Wales is a land of lusty men’s choirs, salty harbors, slate-roofed villages, stunning mountains, and stout castles. Wales: Packed with castles and charm 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Harvey forged the sound of the bell with the pure treble voice of his son, then a chorister in the cathedral choir. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

With local musicians and a volunteer choir, Bernstein led Haydn’s “Mass in Time of War.” Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But this week, he will also be leading the deaf and hard-of-hearing actors from Deaf West and choir members from Venezuela. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

"I would like to connect with a choir, or children or another singer or an orchestra on Earth," she told reporters. Brightman to perform song in space 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The pace is slow and woozy, with Mr. Clementine’s croon nestled between low-budget drum machine sounds and a plush, dreamlike choir sustaining  “Hallelujah.” The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Patrick's idea is this: a choir of middle-aged women, singing Lady Gaga's Poker Face, in a shopping centre. TV review: Young Apprentice 2012-12-20T21:00:06Z

She was raised by her mother and stepfather, a prosperous lawyer, and showed early talent for singing as a soprano in her church choir. Mary Ann Mobley, a Miss America who starred onscreen with Elvis Presley, dies 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In advance of the performance, the organization posted a video of members of the children’s choir rehearsing in the dark as the country grappled with rolling blackouts. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

As the choir director, she got used to performing with her back to the audience. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

We would sing choir — that was very tightly integrated with our way of socializing, and I get emotional listening to it. Breaking Amish: One Ex-Follower’s True Story of Moving to the Big Apple 2012-09-09T12:00:38Z

"We never claimed to bring authentic choirs to the stage," he said. Is Volker L?sch Germany's most controversial director? 2011-03-18T15:50:37Z

On musicals My first contact with Andrew Lloyd Webber was in a show choir, “Glee”-style, where we would sing show tunes. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

He also remembered hearing doubts that morning about whether the technical problems never addressed before in television, like making a Dakotas buffalo herd stampede, live and on cue, before the choir’s performance, could be solved. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

There are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer. 2010-02-06T03:47:00Z

The Philharmonic is joined by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and the Crossing, an outstanding chamber choir. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The angelic yet longing lyrics from Bannister, "I don't wanna break your heart", are complemented with reflective synths that sound like a soprano choir has recorded the track with them. Explorers – New Band Up North #26 2013-05-13T16:00:01Z

Neal Stulberg will conduct a chorus consisting of the ensemble Tonality and members of Los Angeles church and synagogue choirs; a brass and percussion orchestra; and two vocal soloists. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

There are exhilarating details, as when the choir’s female voices mirror the violins in an upward scale in the “Beatus vir.” Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

Though the orchestra and choir do eventually arrive, the song backs away from its peak, as if it’s questioning easy grandiosity. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Is Ready to Rumble, and 11 More New Songs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

"First gospel choir was started right here in Chicago at Pilgrim Baptist Church," he says. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z

The restaurant enlisted the House Gospel Choir, a 40-member group that boasts itself as “the choir that house built.“ What Happens When Marcus Samuelsson Takes Harlem to London? 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Little Millie, whose very name suggests a heavenly choir, is in intensive care. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2011-08-23T20:30:01Z

Pot, kettle, snack: Pot Noodle, again successfully preaching to their student choir. The Hard Sell: Pot Noodle 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

I also sang in a children’s choir until I was 16, and we would tour internationally. Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz Adds Pop Hooks to the Band’s Sharp Edges 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

‘Cause at some point, the choir’s gonna go to another church.” Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

"But soon we got into it," Davies adds of the choir's new material, "and now we enjoy it." Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

The choir at the end of the record sounds like ecstasy because of what comes before it. Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are 2012-04-26T21:34:00Z

"Happy as a bird!" she squeals, and the choir of boozy voices cheer her once again. Sea of Bees ? review 2011-02-14T22:45:00Z

The traditional English church choir includes men singing in their falsettos to provide the alto line in hymns and anthems. Falsetto: The enduring love affair with the soaring male voice 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

She grew up singing in the town’s Baptist choir and at home, where an older brother accompanied her on the piano. Barbara Smith Conrad, Singer at Center of Integration Dispute, Dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

A gospel choir sang alleluias along with the stately hymns; non-Christian religious figures were given roles in the highly Protestant ceremony. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

From the amount Fallon talks about "old gospel choirs" you wouldn't think he was a child of the silicon chip age. The Gaslight Anthem 2010-06-27T21:46:00Z

His affection for treacle and sentiment still runs rampant, his voice still slips into a buttery soprano, and he still uses rock guitars to indicate "rage" and gospel choirs to announce "inspiration." The New Michael Jackson Album: Not Bad, but Pretty Good 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z

Q: You met him when you were only 17 and playing gospel in a church choir in Harlem. Valerie Simpson on Nick Ashford: 'I'm not used to him not being here yet' 2011-11-17T08:00:00Z

It was, simply, as if an invisible choir were singing from the orchestra: astonishing. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z

All around the country, choirs are singing hallelujahs in Handel’s “Messiah” and Scrooges are learning to replace bahs with blessings. Onstage, It’s Finally Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Again 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

When the soloists join the choirs for the final movement, they bring with them those instrumental colours, together with fragments of the texts they have sung. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Raymond, who led his church choir at 8, auditioned on camera in Los Angeles, singing "I Want You Back," "Loving You" and "I'll Be There." 2 guys have a ball as Michael Jackson on Broadway 2013-03-28T12:35:15Z

“Sing” tells the story of young Zsófi, who joins a renowned children’s choir at her elementary school where “everyone is welcome.” Everyone can sing: Obsessing over talent might hurt your kids later in life 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Like the freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in that song the choir was rehearsing, Carol was off on the dark side of the road. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

The 1965 film was based on the real story of how the baron fell in love with the children’s governess, also named Maria, and the family toured together as a choir. Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z

It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones, with the vast, scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The two choirs are vastly different in style and come to liturgical music from very different backgrounds. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

A number of manuscripts were made for Henry VIII, including a choir book with several musical scores composed for the King. In Transit Blog: (Very) Old Meets New at Manuscripts Show in London 2011-11-27T11:00:29Z

Standing on a Coca-Cola crate, Helen, as she was known, began singing with the church choir at 3 and quickly became a star attraction. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

On Friday evening the orchestra and choir, with Mr. Koopman and the same soloists, took the stage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for Bach’s Mass in B minor. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z

Though he’d grown up a Methodist choir boy, his own beliefs were similarly varied and idiosyncratic, and a deep sense of spirituality runs through his work. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

It would not surprise me if some church choir director retrofitted it to suit their Sunday services. Do you "Believe" in the immortality of Cher's pop music anthem after 25 years? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

The choir sings in suspended, shifting yet precise washes of voices. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

The long coda to the multifaceted Brazos revolves around White intoning "Jesus Christ/ Is our Lord/ Jesus Christ/ He is your friend", over a bobbling bassline while trumpets, choirs and backing singers finally cut loose. Matthew E White: Big Inner – review 2013-01-20T00:04:03Z

Carol Diann Johnson was born in the Bronx borough of New York City on July 17, 1935, daughter of a subway conductor, and began singing with her Harlem church choir at age 6, according to IMDB.com. Diahann Carroll, TV trailblazer for black women, dead at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

I saw Cave and the Bad Seeds last week at the Sydney Opera House, where they were accompanied by a symphony orchestra and a children's choir. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cry murder Adelaide 2013-03-04T09:53:05Z

He courted Ms. Riley by lavishing her with 500 roses and a gospel choir to serenade her. Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

She latterly took on the direction of a choir of senior citizens for the University of the Third Age. Ava June obituary 2013-03-05T18:07:58Z

He is also the choir director at his church in Springfield, Va. He lives in Woodbridge. The go-to man for the national anthem on giving proof through the night 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Orff’s Burana is an interpretation of 24 poems, and is presented as a cantata — a vocal-driven composition, slightly different than an opera, usually broken up into several movements, and often performed by a choir. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z

It's also a great community piece: I recently sang it in Dallas with a children's choir. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

About 60 percent of the orchestra has been hired since 2000, and it has created its own youth orchestra — conducted by Mr. Elder’s American assistant, Jonathon Heyward — and choirs. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her father was a coalmine official, her mother sang in the chapel choir. Sybil Christopher obituary 2013-03-11T17:56:09Z

I was a member of the KSU Concert Choir, a choir that had members of the R&B band Midnight Star before they became stars. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Collins grew up in Pomona and sang in the choir at Emerson Junior High. Ray Collins of the Mothers of Invention Dies 2012-12-27T07:43:03Z

Over the course of nearly four years, Shore composed a dense, 11-hour opus brimming with elaborate, interlocking character themes for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and choirs singing the languages of author J.R.R. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The choir is active throughout the festive season, with events on the four Sundays preceding Christmas, including a concert of Handel’s “Messiah” and open singing for everyone. A Modern-Day Christmas Market, Transylvania-Style 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Before a screening to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "The Breakfast Club," a choir of local Texas students marched on stage and began singing the movie's theme song. SXSW: Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy on 'Breakfast Club' 30th anniversary 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Jess Williamson, a songwriter from Austin, wafts her voice into a hypnotic waltz that floats on slow guitar picking and a lingering drone, eventually gathering a ghostly choir around her, never puncturing the enigma. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Is Ready to Rumble, and 11 More New Songs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

This year’s edition, held this past weekend, encompassed seven concerts featuring 11 choirs, appearing as far afield as Frederick, Md., and Annapolis. Classical Movements’ ‘Serenade!’: How do you translate ‘uneven’? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

What is complete, Watts reveals, is Wonder's long-awaited gospel album, featuring choirs including Take 6. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

It was around five forty-five p.m., and if he didn’t hurry he would be late getting to class and I would be late meeting Kylie at choir practice. His infidelity, our infertility: Could I forgive an emotional affair now? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

That church figures into a lot of my Christmas memories of pageants and plays and choirs. Fox News' Shannon Bream: Even a complicated Christmas can be full of joy 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Guitars clank and churn before exploding around an angelic choir, as Suarez seeks the find the moment where someone was pushed to the edge of sanity. Le Butcherette's Teri Suarez still angry, even without the pig's head 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Now that Twitter is purging everyone, I think it’s important for Gab to branch out and attract leftists so we’re not just preaching to the choir,” wrote Paul Joseph Watson, editor at large at Infowars. The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it also paid the organist and the choir; perhaps for the coffin. Dr Livingstone had an all-but state funeral, yet now he makes us uneasy 2013-04-12T16:53:26Z

It was a plaintive, nimble and haunting voice that blended elements of Primitive Baptist church choirs and the Grand Ole Opry, music on which Mr. Stanley was weaned in far southwestern Virginia. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The choir sounded at its most assured and impassioned on this rehearsed material, but though Treece's writing was deft, it veered toward a westernised Lion King gloss that faintly jarred with McFerrin's warmth and naturalness. Bobby McFerrin/London Vocal Project 2010-05-30T20:31:00Z

In “Sorrowful Soil,” Björk summons overlapping, antiphonal choirs for a prismatic yet coolly scientific consideration of motherhood: “In a woman’s life she gets 400 eggs but only two or three nests.” On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

It had allotments, livestock, a little school, a choir, even fruit baskets to welcome guests like Carol. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Fontana, a Broadway actor, joins the renowned choir and a host of Muppet friends for a concert that includes classic Christmas music and “Sesame Street” songs. Fine arts on television 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The film centers around two women who join forces to prevent a small-town gospel choir from shutting down. Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah team on film 2010-08-24T00:25:00Z

But when love comes my way again, kick up the gospel choir because I'm not going to let it go. Q&A: Josh Groban sings about love lost _ again 2013-02-05T14:51:28Z

Surrounded by farms, his family lived a bucolic life: his father, Pete, was a cattle buyer for a meat company, and his mother, Elizabeth, was a choir director at the nearby Presbyterian church. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

Saturday; live nativity performance outdoors, 5:30, 6:30 and 8:15 p.m., in Spanish, 6 p.m.; concert with choirs and soloists, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2011-12-08T00:22:09Z

As she finished, she held back tears and the choir gathered around her in a group embrace. Bruno Mars Sweeps Top Categories at the Grammys 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Last week he took on the daunting task of conducting an orchestra and choir of 5,000 people at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. John Rutter on Christmas carols 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

What surrounds the brick and stone chapel is a kind of architectural afterthought, a ring of rooms housing the sisters’ bright, spare cells and their kitchen, dining room, offices and choir. Growing Pains for the Dominican Nuns of Summit 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The album booklet cites the anguished Psalm 22 — “Why are you so far from saving me?” — alongside the song “33 ‘God’,” which includes samples from a gospel choir. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Last December, the choir had a coronavirus outbreak in the run-up to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, then decided to cancel its live broadcast entirely as Britain was plunged into another lockdown. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Later, somewhat implausibly, given his lack of familiarity with music, he’s also made choir supervisor. Theater Review: In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ Spirituals Are Solace 2013-07-03T02:00:02Z

However, they can unleash considerable emotion, not least when the crowd form a hushed choir as Fix You unshowily but poignantly captures the point of the evening. Coldplay ? review 2010-12-20T12:50:24Z

Someone in the choir gave me the nickname “Kirk Franklin.” My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Malloy grew up in a half-Latvian family outside of Cleveland, singing in the choir, playing timpani in the wind ensemble and xylophone in the marching band. The Musical Eccentric Who Turned Tolstoy’s Pierre Into Every Seeker 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was, you know, telling the choir to think outside the box. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

Yet it was the two children's choirs who really stole the show, both, remarkably, formed only two years ago. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

The strength of the choir gave the music its form; she sought to make her voice dissolve into theirs. Music Review: Sinead O’Connor in ‘Gospel Sessions’ at Lincoln Center 2013-07-28T21:36:14Z

When the choir arrive on stage – a brilliantly realised concrete underpass enhanced by pencil-drawn animations – they point in our direction and say they are here with the audience. Girl X - review 2011-03-06T17:07:36Z

He starts and the choir behind him rises, out of surprise. Obama Understood the Power of Art. And He Wanted You to Get It, Too. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

His works garnered international acclaim after Estonia regained independence in 1991, with choirs from South Korea to the United States performing his music. Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer whose works gave voice to revolution, dies at 86 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. McCraney said choirs are an especially interesting subculture within African-American communities. In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z

Mealor's composition of "Ubi Caritas" - "Wherever charity and love are to be found, God is there" - will be sung by the choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal immediately after the sermon Friday. Royal wedding to feature composer Paul Mealor 2011-04-28T15:46:06Z

The Regensburg choir was founded around the year 975 and is thought to be one of the oldest boys’ choirs in the world. Famous German boys’ choir to add new choir for girls 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

"The choir would be singing all these harmonies and it would scare me half to death," he said. Henry McCullough, who played guitar in Wings, dies at age 72 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

He also sang in a choir behind the famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, and began pecking out popular songs and Yiddish vaudeville tunes. Irving Fields, Composer Who Infused Songs With Latin Rhythms, Dies at 101 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

She told some jokes, then turned things over to a gospel choir, which sang a very nontraditional hymn — about what prayer alone can’t achieve. Trevor Noah Is Amazed at How Fast Trump Cut Ed Gillespie Loose 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

In high school he was a member of the band and the choir, and he played trombone in a local swing band. Charles Hamm, Author on American Popular Music, Dies at 86 2011-10-23T22:27:55Z

“Oh. Oh. Ma-ry,” sings the choir, preparing the mood for Franklin, who answers, eventually, with a blurting “Mary!” of her own. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

A children's choir from San Juan, Puerto Rico, closed out the show, singing "This Land is Your Land." Latinos take on bigger role in Obama inauguration 2013-01-21T02:44:08Z

In the runs, everyone in the choir gets to weave and turn away. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The orchestra played beautifully for him: the brass and woodwind choirs in the Andante moderato were exceptionally fine, and the string playing captured the work’s suppleness as well as its grandeur. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z

My daughter, who sings in a Paris choir, has the same experience. Letters: Choirs all the rage 2013-03-20T21:00:03Z

She says she was aware that she was a better singer than most of her colleagues in choirs in Yorkshire. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

There is, or at least there used to be, a really great tradition of community choirs around the world. Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

But on the album, unexpected sounds also tend to loom up — electronics, a saxophone, a drum machine, a choir — and song structures sometimes dissolve or go on tangents. Aldous Harding’s Songs Won’t Be Pinned Down. Nor Will Her Voice. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

They merged her arrangements for choir, strings, brass and vocals into versions for keyboards. 'Björk Digital': Sonic dreams become virtual reality in downtown L.A. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

One of my goals is to bring my own professional choir, La Chapelle de Québec, to collaborate with the group. How a Brush With Death Changed the Next Conductor of St. Luke’s 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Set in northern Michigan, Pera’s Adult Swim comedy showcases the small, beloved pleasures of the choir teacher he portrays. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The choir was at its best in this work, singing with crisp diction, buoyant pulse and commitment. Review: New Amsterdam Singers Perform a Text-Inspired Concert 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Although he did not teach formally outside the choir, he helped young organists in many ways. John Scott, Organist and Choirmaster, Dies at 59 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

In the church choir, I got to be with the cool kids who were as fashionable, as weird and quirky, and from varying walks of life. A Chicago Roofer’s Legacy Finds a Home in the Serpentine Pavilion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

In South Carolina, a Presbyterian choir in Columbia is planning to keep only a few members on hand, all spaced apart for appropriate social distancing, The Post and Courier reported. For Musicians This Easter, Still Looking to Soar in Empty Spaces 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The choir sang the melancholy tune in front of a live audience and a table of candles that spelled the name of Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv. ‘Saturday Night Live’ opens with tribute song to Ukraine 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Except for those fleeting moments, the choir sang with the warm tone and carefully calibrated blend that have distinguished its past performances. Music Review: Amuse Revives Villa-Lobos?s ?Missa S?o Sebasti?o? 2010-06-14T23:07:00Z

Charles Harrison, the choir master at Chichester Cathedral, said he was sent “half a dozen” letters of complaint, including one from a regular donor who announced they were withdrawing their support. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Last year's Another Country had a chamber choir and samba. Ultramagnetic MCs, Trash Talk, Zorn@60: this week's new live music 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

Classical music Medieval Women's Choir To celebrate its anniversary, the choir has assembled a program of "greatest hits" from its previous 19 seasons. The Week Ahead: Seattle arts highlights March 21-27 2010-03-17T23:12:00Z

A little over a year later, Usher's father – Usher Raymond III – left home and the family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the youngster's early aptitude for music was honed in a church choir. Usher: 'The fans want my soul' 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z

Both children sang in the church choir and went to Sunday school. Motherlode Blog: Welcoming a Summer Break From the ‘Rug-Rat Race’ 2013-06-26T19:31:43Z

His first major mainstream hit, “I Believe I Can Fly,” became a staple selection of church choirs. Is time finally up for R. Kelly? "Surviving" series shows why he's been protected for so long 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

As the libretto for “A Choral Fantasy” declares: “And all a choir of spirits resounds in response,” this meeting of dance and music is reciprocal. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z

As a result, the symbolism of the choirs from the two churches uniting into one is enormous, particularly given Pope Benedict XVI's stated aim of trying to unite all Christians. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

Even without him, our nightly meal is often squeezed around choir rehearsal, baseball games and swimming lessons. Motherlode Blog: When Family Dinner Doesn't Work, Embracing the Family Breakfast 2012-08-07T21:57:17Z

A dozen horses from the equestrian academy at Versailles performed in a sandy arena in front of rough stone arcades carved into a mountain side that sheltered an orchestra and choir. Salzburg's Mozart festival features his music. And dancing horses 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“He will surely enrich the heavenly choir now.” Gospel star Bishop Rance Allen dead at 71 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Berlin players simply give him a little more of what he asked for in Birmingham: more drive in the faster sections, wider dynamic range, more precise ensemble and more character to the various choirs. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It's as if a London version of Beach House decided to resurrect the ghost bodies of a choir from the 1920s to fill their celestial choruses. Vondelpark, Tom Odell, Sky Ferreira: this week's new tracks 2013-03-25T06:00:00Z

She began singing in her church choir at the age of 11, and as a young teenager occasionally performed at her mother's concerts. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

She enrolled in her school choir and, with the help of a benefactor, took voice lessons as a teenager with Lucia Anghel, a former mezzo-soprano who told Virginia that she was also a mezzo. Virginia Zeani, Versatile and Durable Soprano, Dies at 97 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Ms Longstreth, who founded this amateur choir in 1968 and remains its music director, led a chamber ensemble in a handsome performance. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at Church of the Holy Trinity 2010-06-06T22:16:00Z

His parents supported his musical ambitions, which he pursued first by singing in choirs. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Phalanxes of backup choirs flank Ms. Welch’s own fervent voice. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z

Much of this ode to the human spirit unfolds in a Montreal choir room at Muse, an arts center for the mentally challenged. 'Gabrielle' tale of first love is hard to resist 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Back at the stadium club, members of the teen choir chattered excitedly. This year, Joey Chestnut marched on New York with a hot-dog entourage 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

The whoops and hollers are as crucial to the glory of this album as Franklin, the choir and the band. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

To wit: Sam Smith performed his new ballad “Pray” on Sunday night, but it was dolorous until the backing choir arrived to uplift him at the first chorus. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

As with a choir, there was huge pleasure in being overwhelmed by the magnitude of human breath. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Wright also directed the choirs at Franklin and Roosevelt high schools. Pat Wright to receive 'Cultural Treasure' award 2012-05-24T21:18:05Z

He noted that the choir often sings with other English choirs, which are similar in style. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

He sang in choir and played guitar in a band, the Sparks, when he was 16. Patrick Adams, Master of New York’s Underground Disco Scene, Dies at 72 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

There may be no miracles or choirs of angels here, but religiosity, although restrained, is pervasive. Movie Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ Traces Mexico’s Cristero War 2012-05-31T22:13:04Z

Would country houses descend into immediate ruin; brass bands and choirs fall into oblivion; would-be farmers leave their crops to rot; over-ambitious building projects collapse? Expert view 2010-03-18T13:57:00Z

There, he helped support the family through his work as a boy soprano in the choir of Grace Church, the historic Episcopal church in Manhattan. Glenn Yarbrough, Folk Singer With the Limeliters, Dies at 86 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Then those other moments descend — as when the chorus starts sounding like a heavenly choir — when you feel like reaching for the Pepto-Bismol. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbertson, 30 as well, wrote a string quartet that veers from glassy to robust, and Mr. Hearne, 35, wrote “Sound From the Bench,” a cantata for chamber choir, electric guitars and drums. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

She is a quiet, often awkward small-town woman whose prior show business experience was singing in her church choir. Susan Boyle's awkward, cringe-inducing stardom 2010-12-01T16:02:00Z

In “Holy Manna,” the incised forms are even less literal: They’re the names of Borden’s children, grandchildren and fellow choir members, all of whom live nearby. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lindsey and the rest in attendance were treated to a variety of different acts, from traditional gospel choirs to gospel-influenced R&B and hip-hop. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

A threatening lit-up cross appears on set, where Usher condemns himself in a fiery sermon of self-hate while his inner thoughts appear as robed choir members singing a refrain of “AIDS is God’s punishment.” God Loves a Show: Religious Satires Reveal the Art of Acting Faithful 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

She was alone in a room and rapping in a near-whisper over a looped choir of women’s voices, with hints of Björk and Meredith Monk. SXSW Came Back With Genuine Joy. Here Are 15 of the Best Acts. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Each Christmas Eve, the choir’s “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” is broadcast live on radio stations worldwide, including about 450 in the United States. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Comprised of nine biblical passages, each followed by a carol sung by a boys choir, the original “Festival of Lessons and Carols” is rooted in a historic — and moving — Anglican observance. Young voices rejoice with ‘Festival of Lessons & Carols’ 2012-12-20T21:44:32Z

As a young boy, Aram suffered from breathing difficulties - following a doctor's advice to try singing, his parents encouraged him to join a choir and his health condition improved. Eurovision 2014: The ones to watch 2014-05-06T07:49:54Z

Last year he produced a promethean oratorio for large choir and accompanying pyrotechnic installation in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral. The Firework-Maker's Daughter – review 2013-03-24T18:11:00Z

Instead, Threadgill is planning what he called a “corrupted oratorio,” featuring two choirs: “a traditional choir and a gospel choir,” plus piano and organ, and other instruments as it develops. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

In this scene, the boys, members of the school’s choir, sing the spiritual “Motherless Child.” ArtsBeat: In Performance: ‘Choir Boy’ 2013-07-09T12:01:40Z

Driven by similar passion, Mr. Heras-Casado at 17 founded the Capella Exaudi choir to perform Renaissance music, taking on his first conducting role. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

The 75th anniversary celebrations in the town will include choirs, photo exhibitions and the reconstruction of the U.S. paratrooper camp, Camp Geronimo. Six powerful Normandy spots for commemorating D-Day on its 75th anniversary 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The forces here were much smaller, with five voices instead of two choirs and an instrumentation of cello, clarinet, horn, harp and theorbo, instead of full symphony orchestra. Hebrides Ensemble – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-26T17:30:02Z

He added, as modestly as possible, “I have a pretty big choir.” The Comedy Lineup Expands on Netflix 2013-08-29T04:11:00Z

You can find better recordings of most of these pieces, but that's not the point: this is a working choir, playing a distinguished part in the daily round of a great building. Mendelssohn: Choral Music – review 2012-09-29T23:05:35Z

One performance by the classical choir Tallis Scholars will be held in nearby Montgomery church, while the Escher String Quartet will play in the Reardon Smith Theatre at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Festival marks Britten centenary 2013-06-20T07:49:58Z

“The choir need a song to sing – that’s why they’re the choir! They need a song to pull them out of despair, and need to light a fire underneath themselves.” Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. Whitney Houston's voice still soars 2012-02-19T11:51:16Z

Mr. Waddell, 49, came from Baltimore with his choir, the Abundant Life Singers. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Spoken dialogue flows smoothly into patter arias and ensemble numbers, some of them sung with a weightless, silky blend that would be the envy of more classically rooted choirs. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Not that this does anything to deter Santa Claus from jingling into town each evening in full red-robed finery or stop the choir on opening night from singing “White Christmas.” In Gramado, they start celebrating Christmas in October — and in spring 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

A total of 35 different choirs will perform over the course of the festival. Acclaimed composer Morten Lauridsen comes home to the Pacific Northwest, as Seattle Sings Choral Festival pays tribute 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

In this haunting piece, the members of the choir produced animalistic howls and shrill yelps, barks and sniffs. Review: In a Gilded Space, a Choir Reflects on War and Peace 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The interracial, intergenerational choir is in sublime voice — individually and collectively. Review: 'Black Nativity' raises the roof at new venue 2010-12-14T23:01:05Z

Musicians confirmed to perform at the royal wedding include the Abbey's choir, the Chapel Royal Choir and the London Chamber Orchestra and the Fanfare Team from the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Britain's royal wedding to be on iTunes 2011-03-23T13:12:17Z

And sheet music publishing companies are capitalizing on it, and "Glee" songs are now being published in choral arrangements and made accessible to show choirs. How "Glee" is changing high school choir 2010-09-21T20:01:00Z

"Glee", about an eclectic group of high school misfits in a struggling show choir, won 19 Emmy nominations last week after becoming the most talked-about new show on U.S. television. "Glee" writers drop hints about season No. 2 2010-07-13T19:07:00Z

But if the early ’60s were a high point of assimilation for the choir and the church, they also marked a turning point. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

That, unfortunately, meant the Schola Cantorum Reykjavík chamber choir, which introduced the orchestral program with five short a cappella pieces, was treated by too many rock fans with the disrespect of a warm-up band. Sigur Rós rocks the L.A. Phil in the name of Reykjavík 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Trinity drew its roster of soloists — spreading the wealth, it featured 15 of them — from the ranks of its own choir, which includes male altos, whose whiteish, trumpeting tone isdistinct from that of female mezzo-sopranos. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z

Mourners have been instructed to wear masks and observe social distancing inside the chapel, and not to join in when a four-person choir sings hymns. UK military prepares for big role in Prince Philip’s funeral 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Last April, their founder, Tim Rhys-Evans, set up 10 youth choirs in the Welsh valleys, encouraging young boys to follow the traditions of their fathers and grandfathers. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

As parishioners found their pews before the start of Spanish Mass, Lopez and the rest of the choir were tucked away in O’Neil Hall next to entrances of the church, warming up for show time. Williston schools, churches adapt to population 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some members of the choir also took part in the crèche itself. More than 1,000 nativity scene performers vie for world record in Utah 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the choir room, she faces her accusers. On the set as "Glee" begins its second season 2010-08-27T05:39:00Z

Smallwood helped form Howard’s gospel choir, and sitting in a basement practice room in the fine arts department, he penned what became another of his biggest hits, “I Love the Lord.” The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

La Scala in Città will be repeated this September on a larger scale, including the young singers of the opera house’s academy, ballet school and children’s choir. La Scala Woos a Younger Audience 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Phil, Swed found some rough edges in the blending of Iceland’s popular rock band and classical music, including audience members who treated a chamber choir as a warm-up act. Essential Arts & Culture: 'The Encounter's' circular time, L.A. Phil's Icelandic time, Center Theater Group's anniversary time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Being in a school choir used to be "very stupid and sad", he says. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z

We wanted not to just be like, "Stop, here comes a musical number!" and show choir hands. Bridget Everett on finding herself in "Somebody Somewhere": "This experience is changing my life" 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

"Then in the last years at school we started to work with a choir and orchestra. I was loving it — being with the music and people at the same time." L.A. Phil's Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts herself with aplomb 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

A spokesman for the choir estimated that 100 million listeners would tune in. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

He sees each member of his choir in the round and provides each one with exactly the right amount of praise, cajolery or castigation. Kerry and Me 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z

David Timm conducted the university’s choir and Baroque ensemble in three cantatas, over and above the 33. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Tongue and his forces, including a fine quartet of soloists, made a decent job of it, with the choir in particular marshalling formidable tone. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z

The piece was made using nothing but vocals from community choirs and pebbles for percussion but it was no simple affair. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

There was a homily on politics that got an amen, and a seventy-one-person choir, properly called the Pyer Moss Tabernacle Drip Choir Drenched in the Blood, according to the show notes. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

It has swooping harmonized lines, nonsense-syllable backups, antiphonal choirs and a chorus that revolves around a nugget of self-reliance: “I’ll be all right, just not tonight/But someday.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

Dett was an extensively trained composer whose distinguished career, not surprisingly given the times he lived in, was mostly confined to teaching and directing choirs at African-American colleges. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

In an interview in a wood-paneled drawing room at the choir school, Mr. Hyde spoke of his work with the boys and the kind of sound he is seeking. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

So I would make it to vocal jazz ensemble class, where I used to sing in a choir. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

At the heart of the play are a choir, who represent the grief and anger of a community, and a woman struggling to empathise with a murderer, known only as Boy. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z

Works by Latvian composers are particularly popular with local choirs. Latvian choirs go online to sing through coronavirus lockdown 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z