"It gave us a chance to present ourselves to our community," said Mr. Williams, whose choir performed on Oct. 8. "That Sunday evening we had a 6 o'clock service, and people were pouring in here.
Rose was a Muslim, and was praised by the archbishop of Dakar for his "contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue", thanks to his collaborations with the Christian choirmaster Julien Jouga, whose choir appeared on the Djabote album.
John Alldis, whose choir were also to perform on the track, had experience in dealing with orchestral musicians, and managed to conduct the recorded performance in place of Geesin.
Graham Ross is Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge, whose outstanding choir is always much in demand during the festive season, and whose superb new album of Christmas music, Lux de Caelo explores both traditional and lesser-known works.
SAINT THOMAS CHOIR: "A CEREMONY OF CAROLS" With their Handelian duties over and done, the boys of the renowned Episcopalian choir, whose church is a luxuriant example of what might be called Teddy Roosevelt Gothic, offer Britten's radiant work for treble voices and harp on a program that also includes a selection of modern and medieval carols sung by the four adults of New York Polyphony.
He also encouraged the re-constitution of a choir, which called itself "the DeRossi Singers" after Salamone DeRossi, the leading Jewish composer of the late Italian Renaissance, whose works the choir sang.
Ms. Williams and the filmmakers (Ms. Reichardt wrote the screenplay with Jon Raymond, from whose story "Train Choir" "Wendy and Lucy" is adapted) refrain from making too overt a play for our sympathy.
This time, the sovereign arrived without military backup but to a new fanfare, specially composed by John Rutter and sung by Temple church choir, whose London base served in 1215 as the London HQ for the beleaguered king.
Boys aged eight to 13 will hold pride of place, despite being younger than the "voluntary" girls choir, whose members start at 12 and can stay until they are 18.
On a less commercial note, a gospel choir, whose members were recruited from New Haven, performs the Christmas story as told through traditional songs and the words of Langston Hughes.
Among them are the Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza; the Afro-Cuban singer and dancer Reynaldo González Fernández; the percussionist Mikael Ringquist; and, most important, the Schola Cantorum de Caracas, a Venezuelan choir whose repertory extends from the Middle Ages to the present day.
