Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Help Wanted. In Johnson City, N.Y., the All Saints' Episcopal Church bulletin ran an advertisement asking for choir singers, Sunday-school teachers and "Wor shipers (300) - Fill pews at 8 and 11 ; exp. unnec., but exp. wrshprs get better results . . . Pay same for all jobs but can be collected only from treasures up in Heaven...
...Devonshire, assisted by the Lord Great Chamberlain, unfastened the silk ribbons that held the Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...
...Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer: "Our Father, Which art in Heaven . . ." Thus, freely confessing that "Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory . . ." Elizabeth II celebrated her crowning...
...Throughout the brief installation, which consisted of a prayer, the presenting of the insignia, and President Conant's acceptance speech, there was no sound besides the speaker's voice and the crackling fire in the hearth. After the 78th Psalm had been sung by the Choir, the assembly broke up, while deans and Overseers gave a hand in removing the chairs to facilitate an approach to the long tables along the west side of the room on which the University had provided punch, tea, and sandwiches." For a half hour, Conant remained, greeting wellwishers...