Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center were Wright and Olgivanna and their daughter lovanna. Around them were 65 apprentices, who happily farmed the vegetables, waited on table and washed the family laundry for the privilege of having a bench in Wright's drafting room. Draftsmen found themselves singing in the a cappella choir of 30 voices, playing in orchestra and quartet, performing with the dance groups. Wright treated them all as extensions of his hand, told them: "You can stay here for years and never touch the bottom, sides, or top of the great principles at work here...
...audiences have included Tibetan Lama Cohimed Rigdzin, two football teams, the children of Vatican City employees, the Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...
...Kansas City was adapted from Poet John Dryden's famed A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, a poem intended, in Dello Joio's words, as "a big hymn glorifying music in the cosmic sense-the miracle of it all." Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal climaxes, notably in the last stanza...
With six months still to go before the next changeover in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon brass choir last week was tootling up introductory choruses of When the Chiefs Come Marchin' In. Top names in the game of musical chairs to be played next August...
...blats at "Forgive us our trespasses," seem to encourage use of the Mass as a party record. But the piece has already been performed at a Providence cathedral, and there are rumor that it will be imported to Boston. One hopes that some time will elapse before the University Choir will be replaced at Memorial Church...