Singing and talking, particularly when done loudly, are risky activities, as researchers learned from the Washington choir practice that became a Covid-19 superspreader event.
As theater innovates worldwide, Broadway’s lights will stay off|Alexandra Ossola|October 9, 2020|Quartz
Experts have pointed to the spread of the virus in choirs, buses, fitness classes and other poorly ventilated spaces.
CDC says airborne transmission plays a role in coronavirus spread in a long-awaited update after a website error last month|Lena H. Sun, Ben Guarino|October 5, 2020|Washington Post
If you look at superspreading events, for example the Washington choir case, it is impossible they are being spread by droplets.
This scientist made a Google Doc to educate the public about airborne coronavirus transmission|Niall Firth|October 2, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In one notorious case, a single person at a choir practice in Washington state infected 52 others, leading to two deaths.
Why Vienna opera singers are ready to risk their lives to perform in a pandemic|Julia Belluz|September 30, 2020|Vox
A database of Covid-19 superspreading events around the world lists numerous choir practices and a few concerts as sources of contagion.
Why Vienna opera singers are ready to risk their lives to perform in a pandemic|Julia Belluz|September 30, 2020|Vox
But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’|Marlow Stern|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The play of Sunday, the play of being angels in the choir, is not just a peripheral secondary marginal realm of activity.
Joseph Campbell on the Roots of Halloween|Joseph Campbell|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.
Joseph Campbell on the Roots of Halloween|Joseph Campbell|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Surreally, a choir of high school students at the gate adjoining ours begins singing a hymnal.
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Lewis grew up in Florida, and sang in church, choir, and in school.
Norm Lewis, Broadway’s First Black ‘Phantom,’ on Racism, Heroes, and Dream Roles|Tim Teeman|March 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Round the choir is a row of chapels, which are wholly wanting to the nave.
Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2)|Dawson Turner
The tympana of the choir triforium arches are filled with plate tracery, quatrefoil and cusped.
Cathedral Cities of France|Herbert Marshall
To the east the high altar, to the west the choir, claim the greater part of our attention.
The Cathedrals of Northern Spain|Charles Rudy
The choir of this church is remarkable for the symmetry of its proportions.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments|Thodore Licquet
There was High Mass in the choir that day, and she knelt a little way down the nave, beside a pillar.
Long Will|Florence Converse
British Dictionary definitions for choir
choir
/ (kwaɪə) /
noun
an organized group of singers, esp for singing in church services
the part of a cathedral, abbey, or church in front of the altar, lined on both sides with benches, and used by the choir and clergyCompare chancel
(as modifier)choir stalls
a number of instruments of the same family playing togethera brass choir
Also called: choir organone of the manuals on an organ controlling a set of soft sweet-toned pipesCompare great (def. 21), swell (def. 16)
any of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology