After Shami Chakrabarti, after Natalie Bennett, after 85-year-old MP Sir Gerald Kaufman, after Dianne Abbott, it all blurs into one long choir-preach about how cool and awesome refugees are.
I am a life-long choir singer (not professional), but dedicated!
As I sit here, listening to Russ Garcia's long-forgotten choir, I think of the many bands from this year that pay their respects to the idea of melody and harmony, both literal and metaphorical.
But the crowd appeared to be ready to listen all night long, and the choir seemed eager to comply.
Because the original groin vaulting and the great rose-granite columns that supported it were largely intact, Michelangelo simply walled off the transepts from the rooms beyond, built a long barrel-vaulted choir behind the altar, whitewashed the vault and tiled the roof.
At 16, he became the organist of another local church and director of its professional choir not long afterward.
The strings evoke long, laboured breaths; the choir slithers down while the orchestra slides up to take over with stabbing chords; the men shout or whisper.
Even on ordinary Sundays, St. Augustine's Masses are unusually long, and its big choir, backed by saxophone, piano, and guitar, gets whomping and stomping and shakes the rafters.
Not long after Idelsohn's choir recorded the song in 1922 (its rendition can be heard under the gallery's first umbrella), "Hava Nagila" (translated as "Let Us Rejoice") was embraced as the inexorable musical accompaniment to an imported circle folk dance, the hora, which spread to Palestine from Romania.
The recording features a choir and long, lavishly orchestrated instrumental passages, the musical arrangement for which was supplied by John Barham.
