Choral Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
— George Steiner
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In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus…
— Curt Sachs
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The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.
— Curt Sachs
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A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
— Curt Sachs
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would…
— Eric Whitacre
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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
— Dave Brubeck
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms…
— Elliott Carter
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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience.…
— Katherine Jenkins
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some…
— Colm Toibin
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For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales…
— Clarice Lispector
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really…
— Callie Thorne
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
— Richard Morris
Who Wrote These Choral Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Choral Quotes as follows: