Word: choiring
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...Senator commands attention in order to acknowledge receipt of Michael's handsomely empty contribution to the state university's scholarship fund. Inevitably, the lawmaker finds it impossible to throw his Western accent around a proper pronunciation of the new philanthropist's name. Equally inevitably, a boy choir has been recruited to sing a song dedicated to Michael Corleone...
PRESERVATION WAS introduced in a cinematographic style which included a recording of a kind of lyrical overture accompanied by slides projected on a large screen to announce the oratorio title and introduce the protagonists. The performance proper commenced with a mixed choir clad in garments befitting Gregorian monks. Appropriately enough, the introductory segment was a melodious theme calling to mind twelfth century plainchant. The show proceeded faultlessly without elaborate ornamentation or stage settings, which was just as well, since it allowed the audience to concentrate on the musical side of the production...
...Saturday-night Mass in the Scheveningen maximum-security prison in The Netherlands, four prisoners interrupted the singing of the hymns. Brandishing two pistols and several spring knives that they had smuggled in, they took captive the choir and members of their families, the organist, a priest and two unarmed guards-22 people...
...Margaret Banks, 54, also of Washington, is even more active than she was before her surgery. She sings in her church choir and works with the Girl Scouts in addition to serving as a Reach volunteer. Many patients, in fact, become so sold on Reach to Recovery's message that they end up carrying it to others. Their evangelical spirit is understandable. Losing a breast to cancer is tragic, but not nearly so tragic as trying to ignore the disease and thereby losing a life...
...much for N.A.A.C.P. Director Roy Wilkins, who flew into town last week for a quick tour of the trouble spots. "Boston should be ashamed," he said. "My gosh, in Hattiesburg, Miss., children, black and white, are playing football together and singing in the choir together. And they call Boston the cradle of abolitionism...