Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wars, despite a pledge to the King to fight on, Gilles returned to Tiffauges, lived it up with gold borrowed from a cousin to "pay the soldiers," raised a traveling troupe of actors to glorify the exploits of Joan (and Gilles), and established "La Collégiale," a huge choir of children who sang religious songs. As his money melted away and the irritated King declared him a "spendthrift.'' Gilles turned to alchemy in the hope of paying his debts...
...Lipstick, his ad agency's biggest account, stay put. Hunter's own dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his own jewel-encrusted key to the executives' washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers and I are just friends!"). In getting Jayne's product endorsement in the bag, Rock is nearly bagged by her, almost...
Prosperity & Poverty. The St. Thomas Choir bears roughly the musical relationship to the more widely publicized Vienna Boys Choir that the Boston Symphony does to the Boston Pops. St. Thomas was founded in 1212 by local decree (signed by one Dietrich the Oppressed), and long before Bach took it over, the choir was known throughout Europe. Bach, the 15th St. Thomas cantor, persistently complained about his teaching chores, fought a running battle with the school administration, nevertheless managed to compose enough church cantatas for one to be sung every Sunday for five years without repeating. Few St. Thomas cantors have...
...East zone Communists have showered the choir with state prizes and given its directors a free musical hand. Every year 2,000 or so applicants stream into Leipzig for tryouts. Choir members still rehearse five hours a day, learn a new Bach cantata each week, give three public concerts every weekend. State-supported now, the school has at various times been so poor that it was kept going only by flying squads of choristers who wandered through the city singing for alms...
Performance & Tradition. The St. Thomas Choir has sometimes been criticized on the grounds that its stringent interpretations strip Bach's music of emotion. The more lyrical school of Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered...