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choir

[kwahyuhr] / kwaɪər /






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Playing in the background is a choir singing “love me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The flash mob in Cathedral Square featured Got2Sing choir members as well as residents as they raised money for Alzheimer's Research UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Born on Sept. 2, 1943, to John and Mary Ashford, the budding soprano developed her chops singing in the church choir and then in the glee club at Wilbur Wright High School in Detroit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Young Marian began singing in her church’s junior choir at the age of 6.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He leapt from the beast’s back, strolled coolly down the aisle between the many rows of seats meant for student assemblies and choir concerts.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Then each individual choir member has to pay an additional £42, which means some choirs having to pay thousands of pounds to attend.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The event, billed as the The Land of Song Festival, will feature world-renowned Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli, but choirs are pulling out because of steep costs that include fees for individual singers.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Two large choirs also joined the orchestra at the sessions in April, which took place at Alexandra Palace in north London.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Gospel choirs, country musicians, jazz ensembles, mariachi groups, Indigenous performers, military bands and local community orchestras share stages throughout the city.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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