choral society

collocation in English

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choral
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔː.rəl/us
/ˈkɔːr.əl/
of (music sung by) a choir or ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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I was a chorister at school for a few years and my wife sings with our localchoralsociety.
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He was a keen supporter of some of the town's important activities, such as our football team and the localchoralsociety.
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He was the organist at two of its churches, and also founded the city'schoralsocietyin 1905.
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During that time he was also organist of a church and conductor of achoralsociety.
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These include an art club, various youth clubs, a floral art club, amateur theatre groups, achoralsocietyand a variety of sports clubs.
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According to a local history, the building combined the facilities of both a social club and a saengerbund (choralsociety).
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The local singers were fired by their success (according to page 4 of), and suggested the founding of a regularchoralsociety.
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She also belonged to the localchoralsociety.
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Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
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Gerbach has a very traditional malechoralsociety, founded in 1861.
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There was a historical society, chess club, ballroom dancing society, geography club, film society, drama club,choralsociety, science club, astronomy society and the poetry club.
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The dominant theme in the sumptuous sculptural decor of the concert hall is choral music, something that might be expected in an auditorium commissioned by achoralsociety.
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There is a mixed orchestra, a wind band and achoralsocietyat the senior end of the school, and several other musical groups operating at all age levels.
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In private goods-producing groups like choral societies and soccer clubs, however, incentives for free-riding are absent.
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Putnam's examples include neighbourhood associations, choral societies, cooperatives, sports clubs and political parties (p. 173).
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There are chapters on brass bands and choral societies, and a general methodological consideration of the problem of relating music to social change in any directly informative way.
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It does a tremendous amount of cultural work in the country and gives assistance to amateur societies and choral societies.
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All over the country, choral societies perform their range of oratorios, requiems and masses at two or three concerts a year.
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They are, too, the support for the choral societies and everything else.
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Every village had its choirs—male voice choirs, children's choirs and mixed choral societies—its brass and silver bands, and its dramatic society.
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