Another notable performance came in 1987 when the choir gave the first performance in the northwest of Benjamin Britten ’ s enormous War Requiem.

He gave Ivor some pipes from the steam organ on his roundabout, so that Ivor could sing in the choir.

After a fire in 1240, the nave and transepts of the cathedral were removed leaving only the choir and central tower, and with the addition of the sacristy and the porch gave the church its present outer appearance.

On August 31 and September 1st, they gave a theatrical two-day live at the Nippon Budokan, featuring pyrotechnics, a choir of veiled nuns and a scaled-down cathedral as stage prop.

There, the choir performed the Lyon Cathedral in Lyon, as well as in collaboration with the Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc ( featured in the movie Les choristes ) and gave other performances in Nîmes, Carpentras and Besançon.

The choir gave the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's epic " The Veil of the Temple ", which took place over seven hours during an overnight vigil in the Temple Church in 2003.

Probably, the dialogue between the actor was born in this way, coryphaeus and choir gave birth to tragedy.

These sustain samples gave many D-50 patches a lush and airy quality, particularly with its heavy use of choir, wind and string samples.

At Rockford Lutheran High School, in Rockford, IL, Elling continued to sing in the choir: " When it was undeniably uncool and geeky and all that, to be in the choir, I did it anyway, because it was reliably beautiful, and it was rewarding, and it gave me gifts of experience and friendships.

In 1952 the orchestra gave the first performance in Huddersfield of Beethoven ’ s ‘ Choral ’ Symphony ( the choir was the now defunct Huddersfield Vocal Union ).

By the time of his death in 1119, Herbert de Losinga had completed the choir, which is apsidal and encircled by a procession path, and which originally gave access to three Norman chapels.

His credentials, however, were established locally when during a football game between the Garston Church Choir and the Allerton Scouts he gave the goalkeeper of the choir a hefty kick when the score was 23-22, with coats as goalposts.

A choir, whose presence was added to make the ending sound more epic, sings " Under the bridge downtown ", in which Kiedis sings " Is where I drew some blood / I could not get enough / Forgot about my love / I gave my life away " in between.

According to one anecdote, the Indians at one point gave him a delicious soup ; after finishing his dinner, he found in the bottom of the cauldron some small skulls, which he later found out to be those of the children in his choir.

The choir also gave command performances for numerous Philippine Ambassadors and their counterparts in the different European countries.

Initially, these were mainly around Taunton, but in July 1992 the choir gave it first Wells Cathedral concert.

The conversus, the lay brother properly so called, made solemn vows like the choir monks, and wore the scapular ; the commissus made simple vows, and was dressed like a monk, but without the scapular ; the oblatus made a vow of obedience to the abbot, gave himself and his goods to the monastery, and wore a sober secular dress.

He achieved his greatest public success in 1939, at the festival of German Choral Music in Graz, when the Stuttgart Hochschule choir gave the première of sections from the Mörike-Chorliederbuch ; the event was regarded as the climax of the festival, but the dissemination of the work took place only after the war.

; gave the pitch or tone to the bishop and dean at Mass ( the succentor performing a similar office to the canons and clerks ); recruited and taught the choir, directed its rehearsals and supervised its official functions ; interpreted the rubrics and explained the ceremonies, ordered in a general way the Divine Office and sometimes composed desired hymns, sequences, and lessons of saints.

In a Q & A session with the BBC's Last Choir Standing website, Ansell gave his views on the benefits of being part of a choir: " People see choirs on stage and predominantly it looks quite square ... but off stage that's where all the fun happens-in rehearsals, messing about, lunch breaks, interacting with new people.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

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.

The pavement of the triple choir, though much restored, is a specimen of marble and porphyry mosaic in opus alexandrinum, with signs of Arab influence in its main lines.

St John's College is well known for its choir, for its members ' participation in a wide variety of inter-collegiate sporting competitions, and for its yearly May Ball.

The ‘ battle ’ in the choir of the Ainur rages back and forth with the ‘ pro-Ilúvatar ’ Music described as " deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came.

Other additions to the cathedral at this time included its elaborate carved screen and the 14th century misericords, as was the Angel choir.

The Abbey School Tewkesbury, which educated, trained and provided choristers to sing the service of Evensong from its foundation in 1973 by Miles Amherst, closed in 2006 ; the choir was then re-housed at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and renamed the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum.

The new choir took the form of a complete church in itself, with its own transepts ; the east end was semicircular in plan, with three chapels opening off an ambulatory

The completed building consisted of a six-bay aisled choir, three-bay transepts with a central tower above, and an eight-bay aisled nave with twin towers at its west front.

Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on " the Backs " ( the back of the colleges that overlook the River Cam ).

After its completion Jehan continued working on the cathedral, and began the monumental screen around the choir stalls, which was not completed until the beginning of the eighteenth century.

It features prominent string arrangements and even a massed choir at its tragic climax.

The choir with its original three-storey elevation and extremely tall clerestory was completed in 1211.

Nevertheless, it was burned during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) and practically all of its contents were destroyed with the exception of a few minor relics and choir seats.

It was also thought time that the Cathedral invested in its future, by creating a visitor centre within the bell tower, enlarging the peal of bells from eight to ten, and by the ‘ re-construction ’, or completion, of the cathedral cloisters to house the cathedral choir, vestries, an education suite, rooms for parish use, and a refectory, as a reminder of the monastic beginnings.

From its first national tour in 1893, under the direction of Evan Stephens, to the Chicago World's Fair, the choir has performed in locations around the world, including:

Since its first recording in 1910, the choir has earned five gold albums ( two in 1963-The Lord's Prayer and Handel's Messiah, one in 1979-The Joy of Christmas, and two in 1985-The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols and Joy to the World ) and two platinum albums ( in 1991-Hallmark Christmas: Carols of Christmas and 1992-Hallmark Christmas: Celebrate Christmas !).

It is most famous for its choir of unknown singers performing a sing-a-long, who were all found a local bar called " Tehe's Bar " during the recording.

While classical, gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the majority of the choir ’ s repertoire, the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance.

It has a very strong music program, with its marching band ( Marching Jays ) consistently earning awards across the state and country, and also has a choir program.