Word: choirful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communities he photographed on the eve of the Holocaust. In A Vanished World (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 180 pages; $49.95) a doomed people are brought to life. The faces are unforgettable; wide-eyed children in Hebrew schools, a wise elder peering over his glasses, a handsome singer in a Hasidic choir. Many of the pictures reflect anti-Semitic repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported to measure the difference between Aryan and non-Aryan skulls. Most of the subjects were...
Will Harvey, 16 and an honors student from Foster City, Calif., was singing in his high school choir one day when the idea came to him. His family did not own a piano, and he had taken no music lessons, but he thought of a simple way for people like him to learn music with a computer. Drawing on his considerable talents as a programmer, Harvey sat down with his Apple and an introductory music text and came up with a program that is making even professional musicians stand up and shout "Bravo!" Not only did Harvey master the mechanics...
...Prades' Church of St. Pierre in the French Pyrenees, every pew, aisle and choir stall was crammed with hushed listeners. As the last tones of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata for Soprano and Bass, No. 32 floated away, there was silence. Then, in an unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof...
...Gerald Ford "for all he has done to heal our land." For others, it was Carter's unprecedented stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House after he was sworn in. But for many, the most memorable-and symbolic-moment came when a black choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic in honor of a Southern President...
...over, lava hot." The sense of excitement is immediate and infectious, and the original-instruments movement is now beginning to have an effect on the way standard repertory is performed. "On instruments, one hears the composers almost for the first time," says John Eliot Gardiner, the leader of Monteverdi Choir and English Soloists. "Works are being revealed what they really were...