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

It was these gaps in clarity that gave Saturday's proceedings the cloudy character of the amateur chorus.

Massed choirs made up mostly of young people exaggerate the prevalent problems of any amateur adult chorus.

Using professional singers for the leading roles and an amateur chorus, the company stages two productions a year.

Dues-paying members of amateur choruses rejoice in the opportunity to strut their stuff in public.

The tremendous explosion in the mid-1800's of "amateur" choruses, while appropriate to the age, created a bifurcation between instrumentalists and singers.

OUR large amateur choruses exist in part to provide people the pleasure of communal singing.

His only artistic inclination was choral singing, and he formed an amateur chorus of more than sixty voices, including some professional singers.

It was almost by accident that he began directing the large amateur choruses for which he was best known.

And yet that music has established a firm foothold in one area: the amateur chorus.