Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
...faced C. Thomas Patten was an evangelist in fancy maroon shirts. He wore cowboy hats with brims that were wide, and cowboy boots with toes that were narrow, and his congregation couldn't refuse him a thing. When he asked for money, they gave him money-for a choir loft that went up & down like the stage at Radio City Music Hall, for an electric Escalator that lifted worshipers up to a raised altar. These wonders never appeared, but in seven years in Oakland, Calif. Tom acquired nine cars, 46 suits, 200 pairs of boots and a cabin cruiser...
...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...
Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...
David G. Black--Straus; assistant manager, Glee Club; Choir; Undergraduate Dance Band; H.L.U...