How to Use chorister in a Sentence

chorister

noun

• And the Met choristers were terrific, both the men in the sailors’ songs and the women in the spinning room scene.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• By the fourth year, most of the choristers can hit notes with confidence.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2017
• The choristers stand in their stalls wearing white surplices over red cassocks and white ruffs.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The choristers, wearing black and white clothes, begin singing from their seats and eventually walk down to the pool.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Also: Don’t put the organist and chorister on the spot, blogger pleads.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2022
• The purge has come as a jolt to choristers, many of whom have sung with the TFC for decades, sacrificing hundreds of hours each year to rehearse and perform.
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• There was a twist of irony to the tale, for in real life, Kate had quietly fallen for Andrew, the blond-haired, blue-eyed chorister with the voice of an angel.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 16 Mar. 2019
• An accomplished pianist, organist and chorister, Beaudoin led the adult choir at the church for more than two decades.
  — baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Three tiers of seating were on the stage, with choristers playing spirits of the dead looking down on the action in Mark Morris’s production.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
• Few choral bodies are as sensitive to Ravel’s subtle gradations of color, and the singing of Wolfe’s 130 choristers brought out the evocative wonder at the outset of Part 2 of the ballet.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Emma Watson delivers her melodies purely, demurely, and cleanly on the note, like a chorister, but that is not enough.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• The spatial placement of Geoffrey Burgess’s oboe and an unnamed soprano chorister for the echo effects caught the glow of the church’s acoustics to perfection, and both artists did lovely work.
  — Joe Banno, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Sellars used a small area behind the orchestra for his singers, all barefoot and dressed in black tops and pants, with the Los Angeles Master Chorale seated on both sides and a few more choristers on the benches above.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• The culmination of a three-day Whitacre residency with the choristers, the concert is one of the biggest local choral music events in recent memory.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2020
• One of the play’s most brilliant moments comes when a chorister steps forward to seek clarification from the pastor on several pressing points.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• But the endless flashings of the different linings on the beat of musical flourishes — and the visible struggles that some choristers on Sunday had with the magnets — grew tiresome.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• The angels’ crumpled, diaphanous costumes featured tiny blinking lights; other light came from images on the digital tablets carried by the choristers.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 23 July 2018
• The choristers manipulate complicated sets of magnets in their robes to reveal red, green or white linings, depending on the dramatic needs of the moment.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Van Wart ultimately sold his land to buy a farm and became a respected chorister in a local Presbyterian church.
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Starting the weekend before Easter, this effort has involved orchestra members, staff and choristers.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
• While Pell's lawyers argued in the appeal that the jury must have had reasonable doubt, the prosecutors said contrasting evidence from more than 20 priests, choristers, altar servers and church officials still did not preclude guilty verdicts.
  — Rod McGuirk, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2019
• One Ubuntu chorister proudly displayed his tattoo of Johann Sebastian Bach.
  — Ryan Ebright, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• This newfound self-confidence among the choristers frequently crops up in rehearsals with their famous collaborators.
  — Steven Edelstone, New York Times, 19 July 2019
• At this blessed time of year, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra typically turns to more populist symphonic fare to help ensure a healthy box office amid the rival seasonal flurries of caroling choristers and dancing sugarplums.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Frustrating for the chorus master as well, since auditioning new and returning choristers — general auditions for chorus vacancies are held in late winter and spring — means making some tough choices.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Our primary measurements of success are the participation numbers in our core program, chorister and family feedback, year-to-year retention, assessing learning outcomes and demonstration of performance skills at concerts.
  — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021

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