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.

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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.

Stairway to Palermo 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.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

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

The Bishop's Secret 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.

Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland 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. '

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

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.

Cool Hand Luke – review 2011

Thus professional choristers are held to the same standards as their professional colleagues in the orchestra.

The Master of Many Choruses Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

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

Obama, Adam Smith, and the Benefits of Technology 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.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011