Word: choraler
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...Allegiance. That's why a new hearing-aid-like device called the SpeechEasy seems to help. Invented by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., it's a tiny, programmable earpiece that alters the pitch of the speaker's voice and echoes it back into the ear. This "choral effect" tricks the brain into thinking someone else is talking and encourages fluent speech. In initial tests, the SpeechEasy worked for about 85% of stutterers. The effect is nearly instantaneous; but like glasses for the nearsighted, it lasts only as long as the device is being used. --By Sora Song
...said he counts among his greatest achievements the endowment of his chair, accomplished last year during the Church’s capital campaign, and the creation of a Choral Fellows program in 2001. The program consists of an elite group of ten singers who perform at Morning Prayers and represent the choir at special events...
Somerville said the Choral Fellows program, which is modeled after the choruses at elite British universities, has fostered an increased level of professionalism in the group...
...Having come from a tradition where the choral groups of Oxford and Cambridge are regarded as being professional, that always seemed a do-able thing at Harvard,” said Somerville...
...residency was planned by the Office for the Arts (OFA) to give the choir—a touring arm of the intensive choral academy—a taste of a Harvard education...