chorister

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Chorister was an enormously difficult job even when the Met’s repertory extended from Handel through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini to the middle of the 20th century.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

In case the Chorister Bishop died within the Month, his Exequies were solemnized with an answerable glorious pomp and sadness.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

Chorister blackbird and thrush Together or alternate piped; A free-hearted harmony large, With meaning for man, for brute, When the primitive forces are brimmed.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

"The Chorister" is the Saturn of this abortive generation of jocular poems, all in four cantos or thereabouts, for it was generally admitted that six would wear the subject threadbare.

From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de

R.A.: the gift of Mr. Thomas Ingram, Professor of Music, formerly a Chorister and Pupil in the Cathedral. 7th.

From Ely Cathedral by Anonymous