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When I photographed this group of deer, they reminded me of singers in a choir. I have modified the picture a bit to try to make it more choir-like.
Peter has founded a choir: The OeHoe Choir.
They perform during the bear picnic.
They still need a lot of rehearsing.
PETER:
It wasn't good guys. We do it again:
OEHOE CHOIR:
Old McDonald had a farm
E—I—E—I—O
And on that farm he had a cow
E—I—E—I—O
With a moo-moo here
And a moo-moo there
Here a moo, there a moo
Everywhere a moo-moo
Old McDonald had a farm
E—I—E—I—O
PETER:
Stop!!!!!!
It's out of tune and there's one owl that doesn't sing along.
Why don't you sing, owl in the corner?
OWL IN THE CORNER:
There's a vomit ball in my throat.
PETER:
Oleg! Could you bring a glass of water for that owl.
OLEG:
Here it is.
The owl drinks the water and he spit out the vomit ball
PETER:
We continue singing.
OLEG:
Can I ask you something Peter?
PETER:
Short question please.
OLEG:
Why do you have a match in your paw?
PETER:
That's my conductor's baton.
OLEG:
I understand.
Careful with it Peter!
The choir of the gothic cathedral of Chartres (completed c. 1221) was recently restored, albeit not to everybody's taste.
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Detail of the Choir screen and the decorated medieval arches above. St Albans Abbey, England. Hasselblad X2D.
A large choir was having some sort of fallapalooza nearby in a sunny meadow surrounded by aspen stands. Sounded like a good time, but I prefer the natural quiet of the forest.
Wasatch Range UT
Hoodoo formations along the Bryce Canyon rim on our hike from Fairyland Pt. reminded me of a choir in this view from May, 2025.
A choir of school children with the teacher at the head stands in front of the house and sings an extremely simple melody with the words
Take his clothes off, then he’ll heal,
and if he doesn’t cure, then kill him.
It’s only a doctor; it’s only a doctor.
'A Country Doctor' by Franz Kafka
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I was never a fan of Shakespeare in my high school English class. Couldn't understand what all the fuss was about and thought perhaps even a bit pretentious. However, when I was looking for something to write along with this image, I came across a verse, which sums it up pretty well:
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang …"
La Jolla Cove in San Diego is a great place to walk and if your a seal a place to hang out on a rock before or after your fish dinner and sing a song to the tourists. I this was a choir I would say that one with a wide open mouth is taking his solo part. Sing Out loud and strong.
PS: Ask Spotify, Alexa, or Siri to stream music by
JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND -- enjoy!
Inside the choir of Winchester Cathedral.
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the Church of England’s Diocese of Winchester.
The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532. It has a very long and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of 170 metres, it is the longest medieval cathedral in the world, and only surpassed by five more churches, four of them built in the 20th Century. It is also the sixth-largest cathedral by area in England.
The first Christian church in Winchester can be traced back to c. 648, when King Cenwalh of Wessex built a small, cross-shaped building just north of the present building. This ‘Old Minster’, became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Winchester in 662, but no trace of it other than its ground plan exists today. From 963 to 993, bishop Æthelwold and then Alphege greatly expanded the church, which was briefly the largest church in Europe. Also on the same site was the New Minster, in direct competition with the neighbouring Old Minster, begun by Alfred the Great but completed in 901 by his son Edward the Elder.
The present building, however, was begun after the Norman Conquest, perhaps inevitably. William the Conqueror installed his friend and relative Walkelin as the first Norman Bishop of Winchester in 1070, and nine years later, in 1079, Walkelin began the construction of a huge new Norman cathedral, on a site just to the south of the Old and New Minsters, the site of the present building. The new cathedral was consecrated with the completion of the east end in 1093, and the following day, demolition of the New and Old Minsters began and left virtually no remains.
Work quickly progressed to the transepts and central tower, and these were certainly complete by 1100. In 1107, the central tower fell but was reconstructed and much of the work on this core of the present building was completed by 1129 to a very high standard, much of it surviving today.
A new Early English retrochoir was started in 1202, but the next expansions after that would not start until 1346, when Bishop Edington demolished the Norman west front and began building a new Perpendicular Gothic facade, featuring a huge west window, which still stands today. Edington also began renovation of the nave, but this was mostly carried out by his successors, most notably William of Wykeham and his master mason, William Wynford, who remodelled the massive Norman nave into a soaring Perpendicular Gothic masterpiece. This they achieved by encasing the Norman stone in new ashlar, recutting the piers with Gothic mouldings and pointed arches, and reorganising the three-tier nave into two tiers, by extending the arcade upwards into what was the triforium and extending the clerestory downwards to meet it. The wooden ceiling was replaced with a decorative stone vault. Following Wykeham's death in 1404, this remodelling work continued under successive bishops, being completed ca. 1420.
Between then and 1528, major rebuilding and expansion was carried out on the Norman choir and Early English retrochoir. This work included the building of further chantry chapels, the replacement of the Norman east end with a Perpendicular Gothic presbytery, and the extension of Luci's retrochoir into a Lady Chapel. Unlike the rebuilding of the nave some 100 years earlier, the Gothic presbytery was vaulted in wood and painted to look like stone, as at York Minster. With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 34 metres beyond that of Walkelin's building.
With Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved in 1539, and the cathedral’s shrines and altar were destroyed. The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.
The 17th century saw important changes to the interior, including the erection of a choir screen by Inigo Jones in 1638–39, the insertion of a wooden fan vault underneath the crossing tower (previously the tower was open to the church) and the destruction of much medieval glass and imagery by Parliamentarian soldiers in December 1642, including the near-complete destruction of the massive Great West Window by Cromwell and his forces. The window was put back together by the townspeople as a mosaic following the Restoration of the Monarchy, but it has never regained its original appearance, the damage was too great.
In the 18th century, many visitors commented on the neglect of the cathedral and the town; Daniel Defoe described the latter in about 1724 as “a place of no trade… no manufacture, no navigation”. Major restoration, however, followed in the early 19th Century under the direction of architect William Garbett and then John Nash
At the turn of the 20th century, Winchester Cathedral was in grave danger of collapse. Huge cracks had appeared in the walls, some of them large enough for a small child to crawl into, the walls were bulging and leaning, and stone fell from the walls. After several false solutions that may have made things worse, over six years from 1906-12, diver William Walker worked six or seven hour shifts every day diving through septic water full of corpses and laying a new cement under-layer for the cathedral and its foundations. Walker laid more than 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks. In 1911, flying buttresses were also added along the length of the south nave to complete the work.
In 2011, a new single-story extension in the corner of the north presbytery aisle was completed, the first new extension on the cathedral since the mid-16th Century, housing toilet facilities, storage and a new boiler. An extensive programme of interior restoration was completed between 2012-19.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
3 little Kenner girls.
ADED 2010 55/365
I saw them all sitting together last night in my house and loved the way the light fell on the contours of their faces... of course by the early evening when I took this photo, the light was not right to cast the sort of shadows I had seen the day before... but I still love their precious faces!
El nou espectacle del Soweto Gospel Choir, guanyador de tres premis Grammy, commemora el moviment per la llibertat a Sud-àfrica i el moviment pels drets civils als Estats Units. HOPE és un programa de cançons sud-africanes per la llibertat que van inspirar el somni de la nació de l'arc de Sant Martí. A continuació, el cor es trasllada als Estats Units amb interpretacions d’artistes com Billie Holiday, James Brown, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield i Aretha Franklin. Un viatge musical per una idea d'esperança.
Intèrprets
Soweto Gospel Choir
Vídeo
Cathedral Organ Specifications:
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History S.R. Warren organs of 1863/89, rebuilt by Casavant Frères (Op.1530: 1936, 1966/7), additions in 1976 by
L.I. Phelps and Associates, 1999/2000 by Andrew Mead. Moveable console by J.W. Walker & Sons, 1979
Console Platform and hydraulic locking system by Henk Berentschot, 2001
Current Specification 87 ranks, 67 speaking stops over four manuals and six divisions, 5101 pipes