This small park sits between Crosby Hall and Chelsea Old Church, an Anglican church on Old Church Street whose southern chapel was commissioned by More and in which he sang with his parish choir.

There is also a boys ' choir whose weekly evensong is a major event within the cathedral week.

The choir is supported by the Friends of Romsey Abbey Choir ( known as FORAC ), whose mandate is to assist the work of the choir through fundraising, social activities and organization of trips, often including an annual residence at a Cathedral, chaired by Harriet Lindsey.

Palmer concludes by invoking George Eliot's poem The Choir Invisible: " Frederick Delius ... belongs to the company of those true artists for whose life and work the world is a better place to live in, and of whom surely is composed, in a literal sense, ' the choir invisible / Whose music is the gladness of the world '".

The festival's compère Mr Hywel Roberts, whose brother had been killed in the war, introduced the choir with the words: " Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our friends from West Germany.

The church has an active choir whose members have studied music.

John Alldis, whose choir were also to perform on the track, had experience in dealing with orchestral musicians, and managed to conduct the recorded performance in place of Geesin.

This provides both natural light to the main hall and can also be used by a hidden choir whose voices are carried through the building and down onto the audience.

This mammoth project involved re-building the nave, whose walls incorporate some of the earlier church and the restoration of the choir.

Some legacies were received, notably Richard Poley of Rochester whose grave can be seen at the foot of the choir steps.

It is a farewell to his friends Avet Terterian and Alfred Schnittke, whose names are sung by the choir at certain points.

This practice carries on a tradition from the reign of Prince Antoine I, during whose rule a choir of children sang the liturgies in the Palatine Chapel.

The amateur choir, many of whose original members were war orphans, turned into an unlikely international phenomenon in the following years.

: is a gospel choir whose members celebrate their spirituality through the vocal arts.

I would be the storyteller, the historian, the biographer of mixed up, dreamed up characters like these, ‘ who push fake morals, insult, and stare, whose money doesn ’ t talk, it swears .’ Or those who ‘ sing in the rat race choir, bent out of shape by society ’ s pliers .’ Characters with eyes, with guts .”

Evans was close to his grandfather who was a choir master at a Baptist Church for over 40 years, and whose main interests were music, poetry, and the Baptist Church.

His maternal grandfather was a conductor and composer whose sons were a leader of a church choir and a lounge singer.

He was buried in the middle of the choir of the church of the Olde Convent, which stood on what is now called the Rode Weeshuistraat but at the time was known as the Straat van de Geestelijke Maagden, whose director he had been.

The Chapter Room, whose construction was started in 1388, was the first part of the new Gothic cathedral to be finished: built in a classic Gothic fashion ( including a great eight-sided dome ), it was followed by the cloister and the choir ( ca.

What attracts these singers to this choir is the friendly atmosphere created by around 30 choristers who come from all walks of life and whose ages span 3 generations.

In 1969, 110 members of Franklin High School's Bel Canto choir returned for a month long series of engagements in Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales and were greeted on arrival at Glasgow Central Rail Station by a 200-strong welcoming party from Hamilton Academy, whose choir joined with the Franklin High School choir for performances in Belfast and Dublin.

The service is generally conducted by the Bishop of London, with a choir from the Chapels Royal, in the presence of representatives of all major faiths in the United Kingdom.

The Mass, Benedictus Qui Venit, for large choir, soloists and orchestra, was performed in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI and an audience of 350, 000 with singing led by soprano Amelia Farrugia and tenor Andrew Goodwin.

It is the book for the priest celebrant, containing all and only the words spoken ( or sung ) by him, usually assuming the presence of a choir and deacon.

One of the choir members, a girl of about thirteen, has a presence and deportment that draws his attention.

During High School, Vince kept a consistent presence in both the St. Luke's Presbyterian church contemporary combo and brass choir.

Ratzinger oversaw the choir becoming a stable concert presence and consolidated and enhanced its quality.

After the year 1441 the records no longer mention the presence of boys in the choir, the high voices, soprano and alto, being thenceforth sung by natural ( and occasionally unnatural ) soprani falsetti and high tenors respectively.

Membership in the papal choir became the great desideratum of singers, contrapuntists, and composers of every land, which accounts for the presence in Rome, at least for a time, of most of the great names of that period.

After proceeding up the nave, he was to kneel and pray at the topmost step of the entrance of the choir, into which he was to be introduced by the bishop or his commissary, and placed in his stall.

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

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.

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

During this era, the Cottage was used for choir singing and marching bands along with other performances, and Mass.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

His voice was considered " adequate " by the school choir, and his recorder playing judged to demonstrate above-average musical ability.

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

Einhard and his wife were originally buried in one sarcophagus in the choir of the church in Seligenstadt, but in 1810 the sarcophagus was presented by the Grand Duke of Hesse to the count of Erbach, who claims descent from Einhard as the husband of Imma, the reputed daughter of Charlemagne.

Gloria was a member of her school choir, the mixed chorus, and the girls ' glee club.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

By employing students Telemann took away a major resource for Kuhnau's choir ( and church music in Leipzig in general ); Kuhnau was also concerned that students were too frequently performing in operas, leaving them with less time to devote to church music.

After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies ' choir, and Detmold in the Principality of Lippe, where he was court music-teacher and conductor.

The all-male student choir is named UFDA The Choir Boys and was established in 1986.

Professional soloists, a 80 member opera choir, a symphony orchestra and a live audience of 2700 were part of this historic event when Free Will was presented at the medieval castle of Olavinlinna.

Other important advances included changes to the way the piano was strung, such as the use of a " choir " of three strings rather than two for all but the lowest notes, and the implementation of an over-strung scale in which the strings are placed in two separate planes, each with its own bridge height.

* Castrato – Benedict XIV was one of the first Popes to voice displeasure regarding the use of castrated males in Church choir services.

His corpse was transferred back to Bamberg, which he had loved dearly, and interred in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral.

Five reasons were given: the body was of an adult male ; it was buried beneath the choir of the church ; there was scoliosis of the spine, making one shoulder higher than the other ; there was an arrowhead embedded in the spine ; and there were perimortem injuries to the skull.