Choristers

No they are not fußball players, but choristers from the Vienna State Opera who are again spending hours traipsing up and down the giant staircase that is the hallmark of Herbert Wernicke’s production of Verdi’s I vespri siciliani. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her choristers were the birds; her incense the sweet perfume which the grateful earth and her innocent children the flowers continually offer up to their Maker: instead of the gaudy chandelier, she gazed upon the full-orbed moon, hanging like a silver lamp from its dome of blue, and forcibly recalling the Divine Hand which placed it there. ❋ Emily Mayer Higgins (N/A)

Return! 'called the choristers louder and higher and clearer, and ended, with a magnificent burst of harmony, with the sublime proclamation,' The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

My first idea was, that some of those fanatical Dissenters of Norrland who meet, as once the Scotch Covenanters, among the hills, were having a refreshing winter meeting in the woods; but on proceeding further we found that the choristers were a company of peasants returning from market with their empty sleds. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

Paris writes: "About this time the Lord Pope, Innocent IV., having observed that the ecclesiastical ornaments of some Englishmen, such as choristers 'copes and mitres, were embroidered in gold thread, after a very desirable fashion, asked where these works were made, and received in answer,' England. ' ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)

The BBC's three dozen cameras inside the abbey will capture every moment as the bride glides down the aisle with her father toward the high altar, as trumpets sound and boy choristers warble. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thus professional choristers are held to the same standards as their professional colleagues in the orchestra. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

Wide vocal ranges, intricate ornamentations and phrase lengths requiring immense breath control attest to the virtuosity of medieval choristers. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)

Likewise, an opera company's production of "Aida" still requires a multitude of singers, musicians, choristers, stagehands and sometimes even an elephant. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Teddy often attends morning service at that beautiful church and is surprisingly devout although he swears it is the cherubic choristers he goes to see. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Guest conductor Tim Seelig and his 150 or so choristers, decked out in holiday costumes and colors, set the pace with some of the best arrangements of holiday music's usual suspects I have encountered. ❋ Rodney Punt (2011)

Her unpaid choristers from Vermont outshone the professional orchestra accompanying them and achieved "something most professional singers will do at most once or twice in an entire career," Sandow wrote. ❋ Matt Schudel (2011)

But the chief innovation of Reeves's adaptation and Andrew Loudon's production is to swathe the action in gospel music from two black choristers complemented by a pair of Salvation Army girls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

City Opera's contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, the union that represents the choristers and singers, expires April 29. ❋ Erica Orden (2011)

Often described as continental in its use of vibrato, the St John's choristers have a rich, warm quality which never suppresses the individual voices. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The choristers, with exaggerated hairdos and makeup complementing Ms. Berry's outlandish outfits, seemed like the richest and trendiest consumers of avant-garde luxury objects. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)

The chorus acquitted itself admirably in difficult music, though the choristers could have used more specific stage business to match their costumes. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)

Filling up a large empty stage with a multitude of choristers in period costumes does not make a worthwhile production. ❋ Unknown (2009)