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as in hymn
a religious song
practiced a chorale to perform in church
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Recent Examples of chorale
Though the male voices are greater in number, the top notes from the five female singers land as though from a practiced, full-time chorale.
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Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Dec. 2025
The audience can sing Handel’s Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, with the chorale, directed by John Russell and accompanied by organist Martin Green.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Nov. 2025
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.
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Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Dec. 2025
The audience can sing Handel’s Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, with the chorale, directed by John Russell and accompanied by organist Martin Green.
—
Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Nov. 2025
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.
—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorale
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The ceremony included Colombia's national anthem but also the rebel hymn of the Border Commandos -- the lyrics of which make no mention of the group's crimes.
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For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
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Aikens grew up on the Florida-Georgia Line, a shy kid who loved to sing in the school choir.
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Keister noted that the missing man attends church and sings in the choir at Covington's Trinity Church.
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Pre-show festivities kicked off the event with DJs playing hits from their homeland and classic party anthems from the United States.
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My kumbaya heart nevertheless jumped as the anthem continued.
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Fundstrat Global Advisors' Tom Lee has joined a growing chorus of Wall Street bulls forecasting the S & P 500 will end the year at 8,000.
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The chorus rises into a falsetto that can carry urgency, comfort, and humor before a listener understands a single word.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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“Chorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorale. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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