Sentence examples for distant choir from inspiring English sources

Cosmetically, it's about death, hence the distant choir of angels, but really it's about cliches.

"The twilight zone of the fourth movement," as Mr. Gilbert describes it, features the "distant choir" of the opening prelude.

The short Prelude opens with a dramatic passage for orchestra and piano before a "distant choir" of violins and harp plays a snippet of the hymn "Bethany" ("Nearer My God to Thee").

The St. Matthew Passion setting of Thomas Selle (1599 1663) uses a double chorus extensively, while his setting of the St . John Passionincorporates instruments and a "distant choir".

A single beam of light streamed down from a stained-glass window far above the altar; the gentle hum of the distant choir was the only sound within the chapel.

They've supplanted the android vocal manipulations and skipping-hard-drive drum programming with the warmth of wood and bowed catgut, acoustic guitars, and distant choirs.

My seat was high, high up, close to what was supposed to be the distant boys' choir singing Te Decet Hymnus.

"Kontakte" grew here from the paradox that the artificial sounds, laid down by the composer on tape, seemed to come straight from nature: sounds of rushing winds, thunder, the cries and bellowings of animals, a distant human choir, falling water.

Aretha is the daughter of gospel, grown up with the blues, trumpet sounds and moody saxophone murmurs, but always embrac ing the entire membership of some distant, never‐forgotten Sunday morning choir.

There was the distant sound of the Chants Basque, the choir.

In a nod to its liturgical origins, the large choir entered solemnly to the tolling of a distant bell.