1.   The introduction of girls into cathedral choirs and the continuing vitality of choir schools are also hopeful signs for the future.

2.   Virtually all the cathedral choirs whose recordings are known abroad are directed by former Oxbridge students of one kind or another, most of them former organ scholars.

3.   It is well known that many of the professional singers of early music in Britain were trained in cathedral choir and in Oxbridge chapels.

4.   No American writer is capable of waxing quite so cantankerous, and yet his voice has the meticulous range and certainty of a cathedral choir.

5.   When the dining-hall staff gathers around a table to sing their congratulations on a birthday or anniversary, they harmonize like a cathedral choir.