At Central High, he sang in the school choir, participated in the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps program, and competed on the debate team, where he argued against women getting the right to vote and against the abolition of the death penalty.

Although some women who sing alto in a choir are contraltos, many would be more accurately called mezzo-sopranos ( a voice of somewhat higher range and different timbre ), and many male countertenors ( this latter term is a source of considerable controversy, some authorities preferring the usage of the term " male alto " for those countertenors who use a predominantly falsetto voice production ).

In addition, the parish choir sings at the weekly Parish Eucharist, and is a mixed choir of boys, girls, men and women.

A choir of young women surrounds the " sun " in the stained-glass skylight, and a bust of Anselm Clavé, a famous choir director who was instrumental in reviving Catalan folk songs, is situated on the left side of the stage, under a stone tree.

And when the lead was torn off and cast down into the church and the tombs in the church were all broken ( for in most abbeys various noblemen and women were buried, and in some kings, but their tombs were no more regarded than those of lesser persons, for to what end should they stand when the church over them was not spared for their cause ) and all things of value were spoiled, plucked away or utterly defaced, those who cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said service.

The University of Paris complained: " Priests and clerks .. dance in the choir dressed as women .. they sing wanton songs.

* Louise Reichardt moves to Hamburg, where she opens the first public music school for women and conducts a women's choir.

Saint Paul's dictum that " women should be silent in churches " resonated with this tradition ; the development of vocal polyphony from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Baroque thus took place largely, though not exclusively, in the context of the all-male choir, in which all voice parts were sung by men and boys.

* An der Schwelle for barione, women choir, organ and ensemble ( Albrecht Haushofer, 1975 )

Memento and Epilogue for orchestra, soprano, and women choir ( 1994 )

* Epilogue for soprano, women choir, and five instruments ( 1994 )

Ordination to the diaconate was also appropriate for those responsible for the women ’ s choir, a liturgical duty.

His epitaph indicates he was a thrifty, virtuous person, not " given to the crimes of Venus " ( as, for example, composer Nicolas Gombert, who was sent to the galleys for molesting a choirboy, Ghiselin Danckerts, who was fired from the Sistine Chapel choir for being excessively " given to women ", or Gilles Joye, who wrote a mass based on the name of his favorite prostitute ).

Lay sisters were found in most of the orders of women, and their origin, like that of the lay brothers, is to be found in the necessity of providing the choir nuns with more time for the Office and study.

The choir plays several roles: attendants and friends, demons, Angelicals ( women only ) and Angels, and souls in Purgatory.

In 1974, Akendengué recorded his first album, Nandipo, consisted of songs of his own composition, sung in French and Nkomi, accompanied by guitar, women choir, bass and the percussion of Nana Vasconcelos.

In Chicago, Thea moves close to the parish of a Swedish Reformed Church with two German women ; she also sings in the choir and in funerals for a stipend, and takes piano lessons with Mr. Harsanyi.

In July 2008, as part of Bondage For Freedom's None Of Us Are Free ( while one of us is chained ) campaign Jamie traveled to Chowchilla maximum-security prison in California, where he co-ordinated a momentous musical stunt with Deborah Peagler ( an innocent women imprisoned for 25yrs ) and her gospel choir of inmates, along with the band Arrested Development.

Formed in 1990, the choir of men and women is a two-tiered organisation.

# Coronach ( Deathsong of the women and girls ) D 836 Er ist uns geschieden / " He is gone to the mountain ", for female choir

A mixed choir, and confirmation were also among the innovations introduced by Wise, who even went so far as to count women in forming a minyan or religious quorum.

The women will sometimes move out of the choir line in a single file and dance around the drummer and male dancers until they return to their original positions.

In the Manu tongue, `` eromonga '' means manhood -- a quality which the women derisively toasted in weekly feasts at which great quantities of a brew like kava were imbibed.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

The dust clogged their throats, and the heat parched them, so that the women were always making ice water.

All the women got up and offered their chairs, and when they were all seated again, the guests made their inquiries and their explanations.

The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.

One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;

Lucy Upton was graduated from the Salem High School when few colleges, only Oberlin and Elmira, were open to women ; ;

The questions women asked at baseball games were standard grist for amateur comedy, as were the doings of women automobile drivers ; ;

And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

In his opening statement to a jury of eight women and four men, Bernard H. Sokol, attorney for the detectives, said that evidence would show that his clients were `` entirely innocent ''.

While neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

all their men were bearded, and many of their women were beautiful.

there are beauties from the Balkan states who are similarly endowed, and -- back in the blessed United States -- they were regarded simply as pretty women.

There were more women than men in the place, but he couldn't find a flowerpot.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

Surely she could see that these women were her Italians, too, he thought.

At times they would ride frenziedly through the camp, letting the women see their courage, how handsome they were in their regalia.