1.   And their adopted culture, says choral director John Weatherspoon, a former U.S. Marine.

2.   For one, choral directors considered his works too arcane and difficult.

3.   Harold Bradley, the recently retired choral director of Forest Hill High School, will conduct the combined groups.

4.   He might train and conduct an amateur chorus one week and an ad hoc group of choral directors the next.

5.   He is also interim choral director at Texas Wesleyan University.

6.   Henry Gibbons, choral director on the faculty at the University of North Texas, recommended Bierschenk, who is a doctoral candidate at UNT.

7.   His German mother, a church organist and choral director, also saw to it that he had piano lessons.

8.   Owens is choral director of the Okeeheelee Middle School Concert Mixed Chorus.

9.   Then Franklin, a kind of choral director and crowd-rouser, started borrowing from rapper Busta Rhymes in his improvisations.

10.   Swedish choral director Eric Ericson was the other winner.