He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

Also of note is the college drama society, CADS ; Christ's College Medical Society ; Christ's Films, who use the theatre to screen films weekly ; the Music Society ( founded 1710 ) and the Chapel Choir: Christ's College Chapel Choir.

This service setting, which includes an organ part, must have been sung by the Chapel Royal Choir on major liturgical occasions in the early seventeenth century, though its limited circulation suggests that many other cathedral choirs must have found it beyond them.

St John's College Choir has a tradition of religious music and has sung the daily services in the College Chapel since the 1670s.

Since 1898, Perosi had been Director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, a title which Pius X upgraded to " Perpetual Director.

The last castrato was Alessandro Moreschi ( 1858 – 1922 ) who served in the Sistine Chapel Choir.

There is a permanent choir, the Sistine Chapel Choir, for whom much original music has been written, the most famous piece being Gregorio Allegri's Miserere.

Youth Choir became part of the Calvary Chapel Christian punk and alternative music scene, which also included the bands Undercover, Crumbächer, Altar Boys and 4-4-1.

Two months later, on August 19, 2005, The Choir played a 20th anniversary concert at Mariners Church in Irvine, California, along with 4-4-1, Altar Boys, Crumbächer and Undercover, in order to acknowledge the birth of the Christian alternative music scene under the aegis of Calvary Chapel in the early 1980s.

* Academic Choir Chapel

At the Dissolution in 1540, an inventory states that there were " a lyttel payre of organes " in the Lady Chapel and in the Choir, " a great large payre of organes " and also " a lesser payre ".

Hertford College has one of the most active music societies of any Oxford college, including the Hertford College Orchestra, the Hertford College Chapel Choir, the Hertford College Wind Band and the Hertford College Bruckner Orchestra.

The Chapel Choir has been described as " Oxford's finest mixed-voice choir ".

The Trinity College Chapel Choir consists of up to eight choral scholars and over thirty voluntary singers.

The Chapel Choir is augmented by 18 boy choristers who attend Christ Church Cathedral School.

As well as the traditional Chapel Choir, which also takes in choristers from nearby Murray Edwards, the college is home to numerous singing ensembles.

* Magdalene College Chapel Choir website

Along with these groups the university has a wide variety of vocal groups which include the Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Singers, University Men's Chorus, Choral Union, and Chapel Choir.

As the first event of the anniversary calendar, the Chapel Choir and Chinese Orchestra visited London in July 2011, and performed at St Paul's Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and St Martin's-in-the-Fields.

In 1837, Glinka was installed as the instructor of the Imperial Chapel Choir, with a yearly salary of 25, 000 roubles, and lodging at the court.

: Includes the stories " Me and Choir ," " A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen ," " Letter from Jim ," " Fiction ," " The Living Flag ," " The Tollefson Boy Goes to College ," " Tomato Butt ," " Chamber of Commerce ," " Dog Days of August ," " Mrs. Berge and the Schubert Carillon Piano ," " Giant Decoys ," " Darryl Tollerud's Long Day ," " Hog Slaughter ," " Thanksgiving ," " The Royal Family ," " Guys on Ice ," " James Lundeen's Christmas ," " The Christmas Story Retold ," " New Year's from New York ," and " Storm Home.

Although the huge-scale oratorio tradition was perpetuated by such large ensembles as the Royal Choral Society, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Huddersfield Choral Society in the 20th century, there were increasingly calls for performances more faithful to Handel's conception.

In addition to the orchestra, the society administers the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, as well as other choirs and ensembles.

Originally called the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, the name " Royal " was added to its title in 1990.

Many of these recordings feature the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir.

He was conductor of " Barnby's Choir " from 1864, and in 1871 was appointed, in succession to Charles Gounod, conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, a post he held till his death.

A detail of the drawing is also featured on Martz ’ s second symphony ( 2005 ), The Pillory / The Battle, performed by The Intercontinental Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choir.

A concert performance will run at London's Cadogan Hall from 22 – 25 August 2012, featuring Dennis Waterman, Ruthie Henshall, Anna-Jane Casey, and Lance Ellington ( Strictly Come Dancing ), with musical director Richard Balcombe and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Choir.

At the Queen's Hall in London, the establishment of the diapason normal for the Promenade Concerts in 1895 ( and retuning of the organ to A = 439 at 15 ° C ( 59 ° F ), to be in tune with A = 435. 5 in a heated hall ) caused the Royal Philharmonic Society and others ( including the Bach Choir, and the Felix Mottl and Artur Nikisch concerts ) to adopt the continental pitch thereafter.

* Choir Master: ( CHM ) ( Royal College of Organists )

** Christopher Tin for " Baba Yetu " performed by the Soweto Gospel Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

St Olave's exclusively provides Choristers for the Choir of the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, London, which is the Chapel of the Royal Victorian Order and of the Duchy of Lancaster.

His interests include golf ( Secretary, Lords and Commons Golfing Society 2004 and winner, 1998 and 1999, of the Parliamentary Handicap ), sailing ( Royal Naval Sailing Association and Royal Temple YC ), tennis, skiing, classical music ( Chairman of the Parliament Choir 2002-2003 ), books and architecture.

He is also President of The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, President of the The Society of Business Economists, Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music, Chairman of Channel 4, and Chairman of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra

* Marius Rintzler, bass ; Men of the Choir of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink on Decca Records

He spent most of his childhood in Worcester and was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester ( singing in the Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir ), and Magdalen College, Oxford.

The hall was frequently let to organisations such as the Bach Choir and the Philharmonic Society ( from 1903 the Royal Philharmonic Society ), and later the London Choral Society and Royal Choral Society.

The song Wherever You Are was recorded by the Military Wives Choir and is to be released as a single in December 2011, with proceeds going to the Royal British Legion and SSAFA Forces Help.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

The Choir Organ at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Albert Schweitzer.

The St. Olaf College Choir was established as an outgrowth of the local St. John's Lutheran Church, where Christiansen was organist and the choir was composed at least partially of students from the nearby St. Olaf campus.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

Performing at the recording session were Ellington on the piano and doing the narration, 16 of his orchestra members, four vocalists including the Swedish singer Alice Babs, and five choirs: the AME Mother Zion Church Choir, the choirs Of St Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, the Central Connecticut State College Singers, and the Frank Parker Singers.

Choir practice at York Minster, England.

The Choir is currently directed by Mr Andrew Nethsingha, who has previously been Director of Music at Gloucester and Truro Cathedrals.

The Choir now records with Hyperion Records, and has released four discs to date with the label: one of the music of Mendelssohn, a collection of music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Christmas at St John's, a recording of the choral and vocal music of Jongen and Peeters and most recently, a collection of the music of Bairstow.

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.

Having previously studied violin at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, in 2002 Bashir was asked to become the Patron of the Sydney University Graduate Choir.

Interior view, at the eastern end of St. Hugh's Choir

The Abbey Choir sings at Sunday services, with children ( boys and girls ) and adults in the morning, and adults in the evening.

Tomb of Eleanor's viscera in the Angel Choir at Lincoln Cathedral.

An interpretation of the work was performed by the English Chamber Choir at Your Country Needs You, an evening of " voices in opposition to war " organised by The Crass Collective in November 2002.

In 1984, Youth Choir became the first band to play at the Cornerstone Festival, the pre-eminent Christian arts and music festival in the United States.

In July 2012, The Choir is scheduled to be the last band to play at the final gathering of the Cornerstone Festival in commemoration of their inaugural 1984 performance.

On July 7, 2012 the final song performed at Cornerstone was " Too Bid Farewell " performed by Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong of The Choir.

The Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square performing on December 3, 2005, in the LDS Conference Center under the direction of Craig Jessop

It was at this point that the Choir began to match the size of the spacious Tabernacle.

* The Choir has performed at 13 World ’ s Fairs and Expositions.

Other notable events the Choir has performed at include the following:

* The Choir performed over 20 times at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, including at the Opening Ceremonies, where they sang the national anthem and the Olympic Hymn under the direction of John Williams.