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cantors

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plural of cantor

as in choristers

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Chloe was a big fan of the songs and dancing, in particular the young choristers from La Scala, Alicia Keys, and Roberto Bolle’s performance.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026
Founded in 1987, Ragazzi Boys Chorus provides musical education and performance opportunities for boys and young men ages 5-18, serving more than 230 choristers from over 100 schools in more than 30 Bay Area communities.

— Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 June 2026

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There is of course another way to hear ABBA songs sung live onstage, though sadly without Greek island backdrops or background singers wearing floppy swim fins.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Sheik, who was a Buddhist, built these songs around trancelike mantras, asking singers to sustain long and clear notes near the top of their register like contrails across the sky.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

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Steve Martin and Alison Brown have turned it into a vintage-sounding bluegrass tune and recorded it with an all-star cast of singers and players from that genre, including two of the great living bluegrass vocalists, Del McCoury and Dan Tyminski.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Not only was there taking the project from two vocalists to one, but there are some apparent stylistic swings, too.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026

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