Word: choiring
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...managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
...excerpts from the Song of Songs, with a distinctly earthy flavor; sometimes with a powerful, jagged emphasis; often, in the vocal solos and duets, with highly ornamental flights of fancy; always with a markedly modern feeling for the accents of individual words. The performance, by the 150-voice Dessoff Choir under Conductor Paul Boepple, was a labor of love and thoughtfulness, if not of the most compelling interpretation...
...Discipline was quite rigid when I came," says Alfred Fuerbringer. From Monday through Thursday no one was permitted off the campus after supper, movies were forbidden except on weekends, and the college choir was permitted brief excursions within Nebraska, but no farther. Popular President Fuerbringer soon changed all that. His students now can get overnight leaves and go to the movies any time they want, and the choir is just back from a tour through Texas and Louisiana...
...conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...
...eastern sector of Berlin, is a grave, 13th century church with the mien of a sanctuary and the promise of a mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from its doors...