Word: choiring
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...will to conduct came only a decade ago, after her Roman Catholic parish church asked her help in improving its choir. "Gradually," she says, "I became aware that one could put instruments together with the choir and produce wider horizons of sound." She fell in love with the ability to create that rich sound, so much more dramatic than her single cello line. The next step was to try her hand with a symphony. That decided, she never thought twice about Carnegie Hall...
Ethos Concert--Ethos Choir and Dance Group, Wellesley College Chapel...
Marvin, who conducts the Vassar choral groups, received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, his M.A. from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana, a spokesman for the Vassar College Choir said yesterday
...funeral service in St. Paul's House of Hope Presbyterian Church, a black Baptist choir mourned Humphrey's passing with stirring spirituals, and the church choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. There were eulogies by President Carter and Vice President Mondale. The service lasted more than two hours. Said Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom...
...Choir practice, according to Policeman turned Novelist Joseph Wambaugh, is a harness-bull euphemism for what cops do together off duty to relieve the tensions of their enervating jobs. It appears to consist mainly of boozing, wenching and venting gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...