Sentence examples for choral from inspiring English sources

Born in Broadstairs, he began his education as a choral scholar at St Peter's, the local Church of England school, at seven he began piano lessons.

The emphasis is still on early music and the choral and chamber repertoire, mostly performed in Gregynog Hall itself.

He had already been going up to Cambridge one day a week on his motorbike – he confessed that if he could have his time over again, it would be as a racing motorcyclist – and so when I, too, found myself at King's as an 18-year-old choral scholar, he was my new singing teacher.

He attended Bishop Wordsworth's grammar school, and then won a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge – at first as a countertenor rather than a baritone.

Not long now: The teams line up in the White Hart Lane tunnel as the PA announcer plays some seriously spooky choral music to herald their arrival on the pitch.

Yet the compositions sound nothing like conventional choral music.

The quality of the recording is wonderful: Neu Records are fanatical about acoustics and even offer pointers on their website on how to position speakers for maximum effect.Mr Vivancos's music is reminiscent of the early choral pieces of György Ligeti, the Hungarian composer, whose "Lux Aeterna" was memorably used in the film "2001: A space odyssey".

But when the Brandenburg Consort, for example, using authentic instruments, accompanied the BBC Singers in choral works by Purcell and Handel, many details of phrasing were virtually inaudible.

In lieu of plot and character development, Mr Warchus fills the running time with spontaneous choral sing-alongs, rabble-rousing speeches, and repetitive montages of buttoned-up miners and their chortling wives touring London's gay clubs.

Do your eyes mist over at the first throaty choral outburst of: Freude, schöner Götterfunken?

An emblem of liberal internationalism, the theme of the "Ode to Joy", Beethoven's choral setting of Schiller's poem in the symphony's finale, has also been appropriated by hardened nationalists.