1.   At the Berkshire Choral Festival, choral singers from around the country gather for weeklong workshops under master conductors, culminating in performances of major works with orchestra.

2.   Choral singers, bad and good, are the surest harbingers of Christmas.

3.   Swedish composers so eagerly embraced choral music because most of them were enthusiastic choral singers themselves.

4.   The cultivated tones of Western choral singers were replaced by plangent peasant timbres in the Pokrovsky version.