Word: choiring
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...There was no shortage of flowers or balloons or big names, such as Princess Grace of Monaco, Ringo Starr, Michael Caine and Raquel Welch (whose cast on her recently broken wrist was quickly loaded with autographs). And there were plenty of little names, as well-including an impressive Welsh choir made up of five of Burton's brothers and three of his sisters, plus their spouses...
...group of 15 students called the Bijou Singers from Rider College in New Jersey had been sitting attentively on an elevated platform at the back of the stage, behind the piano. As Yevtushenko bellowed the unballasted "Pitching and Rolling," the angelic choir, clad in bell bottoms, backed him up with seastorm voices. They took to hooting and whistling while Yevtushenko writhed in the fog of 20th Century pain, a favorite theme of his. Then the chorus began to chant "push-and-shout, push-and-shout, zig-zag, zig-zag" and they howled an assortment of animal groans. This was done...
...music not heard all evening. Kunitz appeared very relaxed as he switched microphones to read one of his "translation adaptations" of Yevtushenko, "An Attempt at Blasphemy." The poem, he explained before reading it, "has more of a witty, metaphysical turn than most of Yevtushenko's poems." The angelic choir crooned in with race car engine voices that somehow worked. The act had a subtle humor...
...stevedore in New Orleans, she just as naturally learned to combine it with the new beat of urban blues singers like Bessie Smith. She went to work at 13 as a washerwoman. After moving to Chicago at 16, she was a hotel maid, laundress and baby sitter before her choir solos won her a job on a crosscountry gospel crusade. Chicago remained her home until the end. There she married and divorced twice (no children), opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings ($100,000 a year at her peak...
...between the Concentus Musicus and other orchestras is the quality of sound: this group is completely different. The reason is the instruments: all are originals or reconstructions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century instruments. The strings have a far brighter sound, richer in harmonics than their modern counterparts. The string choir resembles a group of soloists rather than the modern symphony's big, anonymous cushion of sound. The woodwinds are changed from the way we know them: the oboes and bassoons, like the strings, are sharper and brighter; the flute is much softer. The brass is an entirely different world...