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A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-liturgical sacred text, [1] written or arranged for several vocal parts. Part songs are commonly sung by an SATB choir, but sometimes for an all-male or all-female ensemble. [ 2 ]
Sweden has a long tradition of professional and amateur choir singing. A large percentage of the Swedes sing in amateur choirs in various styles. The choirs of Sweden are among the best in the world, with the Radio Choir, owned by Sveriges Radio (Swedish public radio) being one of the world's top professional classical choirs.
Rock Choir Deluxe (Album) 2011. [43] Rock Choir's second album, Rock Choir Deluxe, also featured song arrangements and lead vocals by Caroline Redman Lusher. It was released digitally to coincide with the airing of the three-part ITV1 documentary The Choir That Rocks. It reached number 17 in the UK digital downloads chart.
A choir (/ ˈ k w aɪər / KWIRE), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin chorus, meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble.
In 1921, Gibbs founded the Danbury Choral Society, an amateur choir that he conducted until just before his death. In 1923, Gibbs was asked to adjudicate at a competitive musical festival in Bath and quickly found that he had a penchant for this type of work. Within a few years he became one of the best-known music competition judges in England.
The choir has been praised by critics in and outside the Netherlands: “treacherous harmonies”, according to The Times (London, 2017) and Volkskrant (Amsterdam, 2016): “a leading top ensemble.” Education and participation is a vital part of the choir's mission. The Netherlands has thousands of amateur choirs and numerous youth choirs.
After consulting a colleague at Cleveland's street department who was an ethnic radio broadcaster, Settle entered the choir in an on-air amateur contest hosted by Cleveland station WJAY. [d] The choir was ruled ineligible; the station considered them professional artists, but WGAR program director Worth Kramer was in the audience. [28]
International Amateur Radio Club; International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) - League of National Societies of Amateur Radio. International League of Esperantist Radio Amateurs; Quarter Century Wireless Association - an organization of amateur radio operators first licensed 25 or more years ago