Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somerville came to Harvard this year from Orlando, Florida, where he was Cathedral Musician at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and director of the Winter Park Bach Festival Choir...
...London-born organist says he is pleased now to become a part of the tradition of Harvard's University Choir. "I remain committed to the idea that this choir is from the Harvard community," he says...
Somerville is also enthusiastic about the potential which he recognizes in the University Choir. And although he says he has not made any "very radical" changes in Memorial Church's choir, Somerville is moving the 50-member group forward with his own style...
...delegates in Oslo were virtue's choir, of course, and they sang beautifully. If there was a hater among them, he kept his secret and did not stain the refulgence. Virtually the only controversy organized itself in a division between objectivists and subjectivists. The subjectivists (poets and moralists) looked for the seeds of hatred within the human heart. The objectivists (economists, historians, lawyers) dismissed such vaporings and located the causes of hatred in the conditions of peoples' lives. "Hard, visible circumstance defines reality," said John Kenneth Galbraith. In the past 45 years, he pointed out, no one has been killed...
...Muhammadans have seven heavens, but Hollywood does nicely with just one. It's decorated in basic white and packed in dry ice. Horses and dogs have wings there, and the flowers speak to God, who is either black or George Burns. When you arrive (by elevator or escalator), a choir as big as a Nuremberg rally greets you. But if you are the prematurely dispatched hero of a film fantasy, you won't stay long. Some dignified gent -- Claude Rains or James Mason -- will serve as celestial flight attendant for a poignant return trip to earth, where you will perform...