Word: choiring
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...heard the young singer in Europe, Jackie Kennedy invited Bumbry to sing at the White House after a state dinner (TIME. March 2). Daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry became interested in music in a fashion familiar to many American Negroes -singing in a church choir. Scholarships took her to Boston University, Northwestern, and finally to Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West to study with Lotte Lehmann, the great German-born soprano, who last week returned to the Met as a stage director...
Miss Hiatt, conductor of the chorus, is associate professor of Music at Smith College. As Director of Choral Music at Smith she has conducted the Glee Club and the Choir in concerts given in many eastern cities. She founded the Smith College Chamber Singers, who have made six European tours. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "Miss Hiatt is a master of her craft and art...Under her supple hands the chorus sounded well-nigh flawless---secure, sonorous, and full of spirit...
Thursday, August 16: 4 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event BMC Chamber Music 8 p.m. Theatre - Friends Event Tanglewood Choir...
...dress and shoes on, and you walk up to the Bishop, and he stands up, and you kneel down, and he mashes on your head and you are an Episcopal. Then you are supposed to increase in spirit." She added thoughtfully: "I tasted some of the bread in the choir room and it tasted just like my gold fish wafers...
...music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He came out of the war a lieutenant...