Word: choiring
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...continued his blooper-blemished barnstorm through Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen Williams at long last heard a soothing theme amid the contrapuntal catcalls. At a Baptist mission 60 miles south of Leopoldville. a choir of Congolese schoolboys serenaded him with a painstaking rendition of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Soapy joined the chorus...
Whipped, with Love. Much of the joy, according to Leontyne's mother Kate, derives from the fact that Kate was singing hymns in the choir of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Laurel, back in 1927, when she felt the first pangs signaling the impending birth of Mary Leontyne Violet Price-a first child after 13 years of barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman...
Because she wanted to help her Brother George through college, she signed up for a teacher's training course (he later went through South Carolina State on a full athletic scholarship). But she kept on singing-in the glee club, the choir, the dormitory shower. Even as a freshman she had what a friend remembers as "a star quality." Once she was stopped by hazing upperclassmen and ordered to sing: "Well, she just sang-the song was Because-and when she stopped, everyone just stood there. Her voice took them so much by surprise they stopped hazing...
Even some Australians agree that Melbourne lies somewhere "behind the black stump" or, in current American, that it is a district of Squaresville. But Melbourne has its hipsters too, most notably a curvy, carrot-haired former choir singer named Diana Trask. Promoted from choir to nightclubs, Diana used to do Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album...
...love of the choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries that he instilled in the choir proved the crucial factor in the transformation of the Glee Club. In 1919 a number of choir members independently of him ended the tie with the instrumental clubs and asked him to be director of the new Glee Club. That spring they toured The East and Middle West and were acclaimed the best amateur chorus in America...