choir
合唱团,唱诗班,合唱,合唱机
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Definitions
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- : a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
- : any group of musicians or musical instruments; a musical company, or band, or a division of one: string choir.
- : Architecture. the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
- : one of the orders of angels.
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- : professed to recite or chant the divine office: a choir monk.
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- : to sing or sound in chorus.
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Singing and talking, particularly when done loudly, are risky activities, as researchers learned from the Washington choir practice that became a Covid-19 superspreader event.
Experts have pointed to the spread of the virus in choirs, buses, fitness classes and other poorly ventilated spaces.
If you look at superspreading events, for example the Washington choir case, it is impossible they are being spread by droplets.
In one notorious case, a single person at a choir practice in Washington state infected 52 others, leading to two deaths.
A database of Covid-19 superspreading events around the world lists numerous choir practices and a few concerts as sources of contagion.
I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.
But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.
It was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.
Then, as I sat here on this “throne,” this beautiful choir struck my ears and senses.
The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
When fifteen he became voluntary organist and -master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.