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Chorister meaning
A singer in a choir; especially a child in a church or cathedral choir. | A director or leader of a choral group.
Example sentences (9)
In a new element to the coronation service, Charles highlighted the “Called to Serve” theme of the ceremony’s prayers when he was greeted by 14-year-old Samuel Strachan, the longest-serving chorister of the choir of the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.
Jordon Ovie, from Chorister Cresent in fell from a crane on a building site in Gillingham Gate Road, Chatham, in the early hours of Sunday, October 30.
Former chorister David Dearing said the procession lines the choir left the church in got 'a bit rowdy' once the group was out of public view, and it was 'game on to get out of there and go home'.
Choirs are not boring – each chorister is a chameleon whose voice blends flawlessly with his/her teammates in order to create something beautiful for the amusement of their audience.
Dies (1810, 89) One day, Haydn carried out a prank, snipping off the pigtail of a fellow chorister.
Documents suggest that he first visited Rome in 1537, when he is listed as a chorister at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica.
Haydn passed his audition with Reutter, and after several months of further training moved to Vienna (1740), where he worked for the next nine years as a chorister.
In his childhood he was a chorister at Saint Andrews Church ( Church of England ), London Road, Derby – 'the railwaymen's church' (demolished 1970).
While a chorister, Haydn had not received any systematic training in music theory and composition.