Word: choiring
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...fast-moving, the lavish, and the dramatic. So do Robert Fletcher, whose costumes are extravagant but not ostentatiously so, and Caldwell Titcomb, whose music is colorful and strong. In the last act, for a final daub of stage color, Seale and Titcomb have collaborated to introduce a boys' choir singing an original 15th century motet. Perched on the very top of O'Hearn's set, the boys seem almost as high up as a choir should...
...shanty Irish. Accordingly, she sent the boys off to St. Stephen's parochial school to get all the education they could. Their clothes were patched but clean. At St. Stephen's, David was a top student in his class. He sang soprano in the boys' choir, tried to master the violin but admitted defeat. After parochial school he went to Holy Cross High School for a two-year commercial course, walked the three miles between home and school to save carfare...
Stravinsky: Mass (The Netherlands Chamber Choir and wind orchestra conducted by Felix de Nobel; Epic). A superb performance that takes some of the controversy out of this much discussed work. It is so securely played and sung, and so delicately balanced that the music emerges rich and even moving. Stravinsky is also represented by another fine performance, his 1914 opera Le Rossignol with Janine Micheau, and Jean Giraudeau, and forces of Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens (Angel). The opening act, written before Stravinsky had emerged from the influence of Debussy, is ecstatic; Soprano Micheau...
...work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive--but this work ought to be heard as it was intended...
Well that's all for now because I must speak to the cabin boy who has a cousin who sings in the choir of the Monaco Cathedral. Oh the entire affair is just too thrilling. Even the cabin...