Word: choiring
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...clock on a Thursday evening, the members of the choir are seated in folding chairs in their rehearsal room at Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Conn. Bruce Barber, choir director, stoops at the piano with one foot on the sustain pedal and his eyes on his singers. He is leading them through a 300-year-old hymn, and he is not happy...
What Barber has here is a typical church choir, 18 or so voices, some by their own description small, some serviceable, with a few gorgeous ones folded in; four of them belong to paid section leaders, and the rest are volunteers. Most are under 40; they are suburban and modestly affluent. Many of them have come here from other denominations; they like the loftiness of Episcopal ritual -- what one of them terms "smells and bells...
...easy enough to pick out the ringers, the professionals, in the choir. In the instant before she sings, Carole FitzPatrick, the lead soprano, sits forward and seems to assemble herself into a musical instrument, spine straightening, chest swelling, head lifting and tilting back. When the volunteers mumble through the first reading, she growls, sotto voce, "Come on, girls, sing!" "I was singing," comes the lament. The volunteers regroup to one side of their leader, for strength in numbers. They start to open up and "honk it," as FitzPatrick indelicately urges on the third...
David took honors classes at high school, but it was extracurricular action that got his full attention. Early attempts at mainstream musicianship met with some resistance. He was rejected from the choir at Arbutus Junior High because, the teacher told his parents, David was "off-key and too withdrawn...
...choir school building has been vacant for several years, and the 50 students, who are in the fifth through eighth grades, have been bused to their studies in Belmont...