Before joining the monastery, he studied music in Germany and released a CD of a choral work he had composed. |
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Thousands of Tai Ji Men practitioners demonstrated qigong and performed dance and choral pieces. |
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He said the club's social activities have ranged from football to having its own choral society. |
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He is also regularly invited to adjudicate at choral competitions including the 2002 Sainsbury's Choir of the Year Competition. |
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Both will respond to activities such as poetry read aloud, choral readings with repetitious phrasing, and intentional changes of voice. |
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Next Friday it performs a recital of sacred choral music at Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. |
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This is the person who will buy tickets to attend symphony concerts, opera, ballet, chamber music recitals, choral concerts and musical theater. |
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Most of the work is punctuated with recitatives and arias with not much choral work but the work did not bore me at all. |
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The day is strictly regimented, beginning at 4.30 am and ending around 9pm after the last choral prayer service. |
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Time and time again I asked myself why I had returned to set religious texts to choral music. |
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Contrast was provided by alternating choral chant with passages sung by soloists. |
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The track ends with a reprise of Arwen's choral theme, echoing her pleads to the Valar to save his life. |
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Other works include The Nativity for soprano and orchestra, sacred choral anthems, hymn preludes for organ and works for trumpet and organ. |
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Instead of singing the proper Verse intended for the choir, many musicians prefer to concentrate their preparation on a choral anthem. |
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The NCH has seen some marvellous choral events in recent months, and there's no sign of a let-up just yet. |
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On the concerto disc is also a choral work with a libretto devised to show the cruelty of man to beast and bird. |
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The final main section features a rhythmically buoyant interlude between stanzas with choral sections in dialogue. |
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These include lieder, thirty string quartets and six symphonies, plus numerous overtures and choral works. |
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Handel festivals with appropriately big choral and orchestral forces were held. |
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Composer Christopher Dedrick combines bombastic orchestral arrangements coupled with delicate choral and piano pieces for the instrumental score. |
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The special advent choral concert will be conducted by Peter Frost and includes sacred and secular music from early and modern composers. |
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On the other hand, I tend to judge on the basis of the opening movement and the slow one, rather than of the scherzo and the choral finale. |
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Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinaine in a choral sequence that marches inexorably. |
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To sum up, this disc is a must for all choral enthusiasts who have the rich seam of 18th century baroque music at heart. |
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His choral and vocal music is well known too, but his orchestral music much less so. |
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This is demonstrated by good choral training, and bel canto voice training, and so forth. |
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Nowhere in the play do readership issues come to the fore more strikingly than in the five choral odes. |
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While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot. |
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The singing, both individual and choral, is tuneful with words both intelligibly and intelligently sung. |
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Brahms finished off his sacred choral music with the Op. 110 motets, another trilogy. |
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In music, composition students sat a preliminary examination consisting of a fugue and a short choral piece. |
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A noted musicologist whose interests include medieval music and Tudor keyboard music, he has written many choral pieces. |
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She is eager for us to come to a choral performance this afternoon but unfortunately we must be on our way. |
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His choral writing has a traditional yet unhackneyed eloquence that keeps bringing one back to what is being said. |
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As regards choral sound, I am not sure that the developed voices of an operatic chorus are ideal in terms of sound quality. |
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Lifar's retelling of the Icarus myth is essentially a solo danced against the choral movement of a group. |
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It is her blend of jazz, choral sounds and traditional African music that makes her the sensational jazz musician that she is. |
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Barber contented himself to work in general a rather conservative vein, which owes a lot to Brahms's choral music. |
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From 1692 to 1695 he was organist at Winchester College, and in 1699 he was made a vicar choral and organist of St Paul's Cathedral. |
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The medieval church knew no choral polyphony, only the ensemble of three or four soloists, drawn from alto, tenor, and baritone voices. |
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At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. |
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And much the same could be said of the conclusion to the second choral ode. |
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She is inspired by her father to pour her heart and soul into the training and development of choral music in the country. |
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Were you always confident that the idea of having choral groups in the community and performing would catch on the way it has? |
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The songs will be played by a string orchestra with choral singing and I hope the result will be deeply moving. |
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A noted musicologist whose interests include chant, medieval music and Tudor keyboard music, he has written many chamber and choral pieces. |
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French choral music of this time is often in a deceptively simple homophonic style. |
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In addition, few church musicians expose their choirs to the vast choral literature of Psalms settings that is readily available. |
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Our last concert was a programme bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz and choral sounds. |
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This Howells disc is one of the finest choral compilations of the composer's music I have heard for quite a while. |
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Why do composers of choral music write accompaniments for brass ensembles so loud that they overpower the choir? |
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Classical western singing is not relegated to opera alone there is choral and gospel singing too. |
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The music flows along quite beautifully and the choral and solo singing parts are also very well done. |
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Tomorrow evening, the Colne Valley Male Voice Choir presents a choral and solo programme at St John's Church. |
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Westport Choral Society is a four part choir specialising in major choral pieces and extracts from some old and some modern musicals. |
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I was also singing and studying the great Flemish choral music of the Renaissance. |
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What is it about choral music sung in churches without accompaniment that is so powerful? |
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All three composed sacred music, choral and solo vocal works, and music for the theater. |
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On Saturday, Cantores Olicanae will present a concert of choral music at St Margaret's Church, Queen's Road. |
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It is in this kind of writing that she makes her most distinctive and individual mark as a composer of contemporary choral music. |
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Peter is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at Ohio University. |
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Sauguet displayed an interest in music from an early age, becoming a choral scholar and studying the organ. |
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Stanzas can be sung by a soloist, choral group, or the whole assembly as required. |
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In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city's opera house. |
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They came together last year on a purely voluntary basis to form a mixed choral choir under the direction of Marian Gaynor. |
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The King's Singers is a group which was formed more than 30 years ago by six choral scholars from King's College, Cambridge. |
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The refrain is easily learned by everyone and the leader part can be sung by a soloist or small choral group. |
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He won a choral scholarship to Cambridge and took a degree in modern languages. |
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As soon as I was in high school, I could sing in a special chorus in addition to having my daily choral class. |
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In doing so I related this to Rubbra's increasing experience as a choral composer. |
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The company would sponsor choral groups, a concert band, and a symphony orchestra. |
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He is the pianist for the choral department at Bozeman High School and the Bozeman Symphonic Choir. |
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Bamberg is the furthest possible remove from the world of Nott's upbringing in Solihull, and then as a choral scholar at Cambridge. |
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A beautiful programme of unaccompanied hymns was sung by a choir of choral scholars selected from across the University. |
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If Dennis wants to engage the San Jose choral community as part of his remarkable community outreach, Carmina Burana is the ticket. |
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It's pure Guinean syncopated rhythm and choral chanting, with lots of bells, horns, cymbals and traditional African instruments. |
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We are happy to mix classical music with choral works, movie themes, jazz, rock and folk. |
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Some of the solo voices are a bit immature but the choral singing does immense credit to the conductor and his young team. |
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His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas. |
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The introductory song was a philharmonic piece, featuring a full orchestra together with choral accompaniment. |
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Central to all this choral music were the philharmonic societies that sprang up in most major cities around Europe. |
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The editions had a profound influence on the development of English choral societies, then in their infancy. |
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Is it any wonder that the stereotype of choral singers is that we have less musical skill than instrumentalists? |
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The choral singing is pure Spanish Renaissance, and the occasional interpolations by the instrumental ensemble are surely thrilling to listen to. |
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Most impressive of all were the extraordinarily well sung and convincingly choreographed choral scenes. |
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This particularly brilliant and beautiful instrument illuminates the most complex orchestral and choral polyphonies of Bach and Handel. |
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Grainger always considered himself primarily a choral composer who occasionally dabbled in short works for orchestra and chamber ensemble. |
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In retirement, she was able to indulge in her hobbies of gardening, choral singing, and woodwork. |
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It tells us that heaven's worship features white robed presbyters, choral and instrumental music, and incense. |
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I had the pleasure of seeing this print of the film on a big screen, with orchestral and choral accompaniment conducted by Einhorn. |
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And the thing I liked about glam was the layeredness of the drums, it was such a thick sound, almost choral. |
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He was incredibly prolific, writing hundreds of choral, keyboard and instrumental works. |
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The city is home to a number of choral and gospel music bands, and we have even had some concerts dedicated to this kind of music in the past. |
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This music has enriched the musical diet of choral establishments, collegiate and cathedral, throughout the Anglican Communion. |
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His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus. |
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Whilst he was a choral exhibitioner at Cambridge, he sang with the university opera group. |
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His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory. |
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The Choral Society is a four-part choir specialising in major choral pieces and extracts from musicals old and new. |
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Patriotic tunes, band standards, choral selections and holiday classics traditionally are featured in four musical extravaganzas by the ensembles at Iowa State. |
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This homophonic choral music merged into now fully notated instrumental dance music, such as the famous collection assembled in 1557 by Attaignant. |
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Born in Prestwick in Ayrshire, John Currie was always interested in choral music, although he has a strong sideline in rather serious hillwalking. |
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A hazy choral interlude follows, followed by more nasty beats and acerbic lyrics. |
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There were a few speeches, plus some awful, awful poetry and choral music. |
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I've passed girls singing choral roundelays on Holyrood Road. |
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His choral works, canons, and cantatas, some based on poems by Hildegard Jone, contain joyous words that initially clash with the fragmented tone cells, then merge with them. |
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Most of this music demands a great choir and a great choral interpreter. |
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There are even elements of The Beatles in some of the choral sections, while her major hero, David Bowie, is said to come through in her unexpected lyrical poetry. |
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Future programmes will explore every reach of the choral repertoire, including gospel, liturgical, male-voice, barbershop and other styles from around the world. |
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He has also composed several choral works, including African Sanctus. |
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Pairs of magpie-larks use choral skills to intimidate rivals. |
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The main products of his Italian stay were a choral Te Deum, an opera buffa, Don Procopio, in the manner of Donizetti, and an ode-symphonie based on the life of Vasco da Gama. |
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Admirably, he downplays Orff the vulgarian and shapes this most popular of 20th century choral works into something more than just a series of orgiastic bangs and crashes. |
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Today, C clefs are rarely used in vocal and choral music because the treble and bass clefs can be used for the general ranges of high and low notes, respectively. |
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Patriotic choral singing is interspersed with news commentary. |
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He bids fair to be nominated a choral conductor par excellence. |
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It is so often the case that choral concerts tend to be rather bitty, a less than carefully thought out selection of items from a choral society's current repertoire. |
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The fanfare fantasia before the choral entrance even includes clams. |
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Based on St John's vision of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it depicts War, Death and Famine in some of the most shattering solo and choral writing imaginable. |
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This is especially noticeable in full orchestral and choral passages. |
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Disc One throws together dramatic choral interludes, pieces of syncopated 60s rock, and more traditional works that gesture back toward bossa nova. |
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And certain vicars choral did succumb to the temptation of female company. |
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The chorus negotiated Britten's difficult choral lines with conviction and the orchestra rose to the challenge of interpreting Britten's demanding score. |
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The Druids' choral scenes were given rousing voice by a splendid chorus. |
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For singers, these intensive weeks offer classes in sight-reading, aural tests and consort singing, and advice on choral scholarships receives a high priority. |
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The general opening triumph remains largely in tact, but he dampens the drums, doubles certain passages, equalizes, and transforms it into a loping choral dervish. |
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A remarkable mingling of Greek choral tragedy, English drawing-room comedy and Yoruban ritual and dance, Horseman is noble, poetic and devastating. |
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To be exposed to the wealth and breadth of choral harmony from at least two corners of the earth is a tribute to the founding fathers of the festival. |
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Choosing a programme for his tribute concert was easy, says Currie, who has alighted on some of the most exciting and varied choral works in the canon. |
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The first CD contains choral music of the most refined and ethereal sort. |
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I dislike piano recitals, and prefer orchestral and choral music. |
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The result is a continuous stream of reliably professional performances of choral works great and small, led by some of the area's most talented conductors. |
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Many people sang in school or church choirs or in choral societies. |
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At The Anglican, the newspaper of the diocese of Toronto, McKellar wrote a choral music column and was a volunteer proofreader for 16 years. |
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All of this led to a depressed choral sound, and even some inattention in the ranks during tacet passages. |
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They played classical orchestral pieces and soul music and sang choral and folk music. |
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Ministers are to give private choir schools state funding to bring choral music to children in nearby primaries. |
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The opera includes the beautiful orchestral Intermezzo and choral Easter Hymn. |
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It did not help that Sargent was universally acknowledged to be at his finest in choral music. |
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The choral and orchestral concerts at the Antient Concert Rooms were of more than usual interest. |
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Then scenes alternate with choral songs, till the final exodos of the actors and chorus. |
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Notable organists have included the composer Richard Hey Lloyd and choral conductor David Hill. |
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Eton also runs a number of choral and English language courses during the summer months. |
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In 2009, the American Jennifer Higdon composed the choral piece On the Death of the Righteous based on Donne's sermons. |
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The piece was a great success and it encouraged Handel to make the transition from writing Italian operas to English choral works. |
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A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music written to accompany the coronation of a monarch. |
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He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. |
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During the 1890s, Elgar gradually built up a reputation as a composer, chiefly of works for the great choral festivals of the English Midlands. |
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Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. |
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During the long transatlantic sea crossing Britten completed the choral works A Ceremony of Carols and Hymn to St Cecilia. |
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James's Hall in London, which included Over the Hills and Far Away, a choral piece, Mitternachtslied, and excerpts from the opera Koanga. |
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The latter work, entirely wordless, contains some of the most difficult choral music in existence, according to Heseltine. |
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After this success, Holst was disappointed the following year by the lukewarm reception of his choral work The Cloud Messenger. |
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By the early years of the 21st century most of the major and many of the minor orchestral and choral works had been issued on disc. |
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Vaughan Williams's choral works for concert performance include settings of both secular and religious words. |
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In 1953 the composer said that of his choral works Sancta Civitas was his favourite. |
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Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. |
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The hall seats up to 1,200 people and hosts events ranging from classical to comedy and from choral to community events. |
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Huddersfield Choral Society founded in 1836, claims to be the UK's leading choral society. |
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The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area. |
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Although choral music in the 19th century by Welsh composers was mainly religious, there was a steady body of secular songs being produced. |
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He himself wrote vocal, choral, instrumental, band and orchestral music, specialising in setting songs and poetry. |
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The Chorus's core repertoire consists of the major nineteenth and twentieth century orchestral choral works. |
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In these years Sargent tackled a wide repertoire, recording much of it, but he was particularly noted for performances of choral pieces. |
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Toscanini, Beecham and many others regarded Sargent as the finest choral conductor in the world. |
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Subsequently, in the recording studio, Sargent was most in demand to record English music, choral works and concertos. |
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In 1978, Incantations introduced more diverse choral performances from Sally Oldfield, Maddy Prior, and the Queen's College Girls Choir. |
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These were replaced by the congregational singing of psalms, despite attempts of James VI to refound the song schools and choral singing. |
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In 1897 a Forest of Dean Eisteddfod, reportedly a choral competition, was founded at Cinderford. |
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They sing a mix of music from traditional choral classics, Welsh hymns and modern pop music. |
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David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant. |
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The town is particularly associated with an unusual choral folk song, known as the Holmfirth Anthem. |
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Julie Lawson will conduct the four choral ensembles, joined by a jazz combo and accompanist Lorna Edder. |
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He wrote Magnificate to celebrate Christmas in 1723 and now in 2003 North East audiences will be treated to the festive choral work. |
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In 1717 Handel became house composer at Cannons in Middlesex, where he laid the cornerstone for his future choral compositions in the twelve Chandos Anthems. |
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It is home to a choral foundation, with choral services sung three times a week by one of its choirs, who also record commercially and tour throughout the world. |
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The girls at St Paul's helped to copy out the orchestral parts, and the women of Morley and the St Paul's girls learned the choral part in the last movement. |
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Over this period Vaughan Williams composed steadily, producing songs, choral music, chamber works and orchestral pieces, gradually finding the beginnings of his mature style. |
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For the voice he composed songs, operas, and choral works ranging from simpler pieces suitable for amateurs to demanding works for professional choruses. |
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Singers deal in words, as well as music, and Elgar's settings, whether in the part songs, the modestly-scaled sacred pieces or the grand choral works are exemplary. |
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He went on to earn a master's degree in choral music from the University of Illinois, and a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from Michigan State University. |
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Eurig, who teaches cynghanedd to students in Aberystwyth and at Ysgol Penweddig, will be on the Eisteddfod stage tomorrow competing in choral and recitation competitions. |
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The orchestra played for other managements, and managed to survive, although the hitherto remunerative work for regional choral societies dwindled to almost nothing. |
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Holmfirth Choral Society hold regular classical choral music concerts in Holmfirth Civic Hall and the Holme Valley Orchestra plays throughout the year. |
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The release schedule for 2002 includes Icelandic Rimur, Coimbra Fado from Portugal, South African choral music, and Bikutsi Pop from Cameroon, among many other recordings. |
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For his first festival he was commissioned to write a sacred choral work. |
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And when Ireland enjoyed their historic win over Australia in 2003, Crowe was there, penning an emotional choral tribute to his idol Harris on the back of a beermat. |
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Two main types of Breton music are a choral a cappella tradition called kan ha diskan, and music involving instruments, including purely instrumental music. |
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The VoiceBox, a converted former industrial building near the centre of Derby, is a performance, teaching and rehearsal venue for a range of vocal and choral music. |
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The parallel is an accurate one, for in the Middle Ages the vicars choral lived much like the fellows of a university college, with separate rooms and a communal dining hall. |
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Founded in 1945, the Choir of King's College London, one of the most acclaimed university choirs in England, consists of around 30 choral scholars. |
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Chester Music Society was founded in 1948 as a small choral society. |
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There has been a choral tradition at Canterbury Cathedral for 1400 years. |
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He wrote the pieces for a cappella SATB choir in 1951 for the British Federation of Music Festivals, and they remain a popular part of British choral repertoire today. |
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In addition to their contributions to the choral works, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts introduced mellow offerings of Canzonas by Hassler and Gabrieli. |
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Choral movements give shape to the nation, but not merely as a matter of representing the nation. |
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This version is directed by Ann Wodeman, with musical director Alan Gardner conductor of Kendal Choral Society. |
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Also on Saturday the Calne Choral Society will be singing Haydn's Nelson Mass at John Bentley School at 7.30 pm. |
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Choral hymns sung in four-part harmony by church choirs are commonly performed during secular and church-related events. |
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Choral singing provides a consistent public venue for using the Welsh language. |
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Lisdowney Choral Group under the baton of Geraldine Murphy with accompanist Jennifer Rudkins performed a wide repertoire ranging from madrigals to hits from musicals. |
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Canterbury Choral Society is one of those substantial choruses in Britain that can tackle the biggest works in the repertory with absolute confidence. |
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Kendal Choral opens proceedings by singing five anthems in the Anglican church tradition starting with the 16th century and concluding in the present. |
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I must stress that I have no close connection with the Choral Union. |
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In the 1970s, a new chorus to supplant the former BBC Welsh Chorus, the BBC Welsh Choral Society, was established. |
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The present choir consist of up to 30 boy choristers, eight probationers and the Vicars Choral, 12 professional singers, historically men. |
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Musical societies include the Oswestry Choral Society and the Oswestry Recorded Music Society. |
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A former Precentor of the college, Ralph Allwood set up and organised Eton Choral Courses, which run at the School every summer. |
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In 1928 he became conductor of the Royal Choral Society, and he retained this post for four decades until his death. |
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Of the Choral Symphony completed in 1924, Matthews writes that, after several movements of real quality, the finale is a rambling anticlimax. |
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As the music echoed around the ruins, the Queen was escorted to the 15th century Hall of the Vicars Choral. |
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The 42 cottages here were built in the 14th Century to house the Vicar Choral. |
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This year the Choral have a harder edge to their tone and their usually unexpressive matured-in-the-cask soft-surfaced sound was less obvious. |
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Behind the keyboard will be Joseph Cullen, Chorusmaster at Huddersfield Choral Society since 1999, performing a selection of classical pieces. |
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The CBSO Youth Chorus's girls, accompanied by harp, sang winningly in Holst's third set of Choral Hymns from Rig Veda making their conductor Julian Wilkins justifiably proud. |
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They are hosting the service which will be conducted by the Rev Canon Tony Bundock, Rector of Leeds, assisted by the Rev Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral of Leeds Parish Church. |
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In the early days of electrical recording, he took part in a pioneering live recording of extracts of Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Albert Hall with the Royal Choral Society. |
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