Word: choiring
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Keefe was in D.C. as a counselor at a summer camp for inner-city kids run by Opus Dei members. His days were filled with sweaty games of basketball, street hockey and volleyball. In the hours left over, he organized an impromptu choir for the kids. At night, Keefe spent hours reading the work of Josemaria Escriva, then not yet a canonized saint...
...spit / Sit around, clean their face with it.” The album’s most exquisite song, “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl,” is deliciously mindful of its otherworldly charm as voices, digitally altered to sound like a choir of elven children, plead the listener to “dream about...
...came here and met a three-year-old Tibetan girl,” she says. “I asked her if she was a dancer, and she led me upstairs to the choir rehearsal and told me she wanted to be a choral singer…[It was] a perfect snapshot of all these different cultures and faiths and modes of expression meeting...
...Neon Golden” is understated blues with powerful acoustic guitar and primitive percussion lines that jar wonderfully with Acher’s voice and a small choir of woodwinds. The eeriest and most satisfying moment on the album is when Acher sings “Don’t leave me here for I glow,” pausing on each tension-filled word, in absolute unison with the piano...
...brings a definite sense of professionalism to the choir,” Yeh said...