Word: choiring
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...Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came of it. "I want now to work for God and nothing else," said she. ". . . Joyously I will dance the measures of the Eternal music...
...unschooled ear, the harpsichord jangles like a regiment of mice scurrying through a pile of coins. But its connoisseurs find in the harpsichord rarefied and rustling harmonies, comparable to a choir of flutes and mandolins. When Landowska began, nobody was writing harpsichord music; it was a dead art. Composers like Francis Poulenc (her student for a year) and the late Manuel De Falla wrote harpsichord music for her. Said she: "It was a battle, you have no idea what a battle it was, to impose the harpsichord upon the musical world. When I started before 1900, the tradition...
Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Selections by Mendelssohn, Elgar...
...Crown. One morning last week, when the sun caught the Last Supper window just right, a trailer bus deposited 18 red-robed council regents outside the court. They formed up behind the boys' choir. Carrying burning tapers, the procession marched into the jammed court and up toward the velvet-draped bier. After a short scripture reading, the choir began to sing Mrs. Bond's The Hand of You. Then white-maned Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, began the "narration:" "No vote of critics, no surge of publicity can elect a composer...
...Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...