He is said to have even opened a school to teach boys to read, and to have instructed the public singers in reciting poetry.
The baths, too, resounded with shouts and laughter, with the music of singers and of instruments, and even by the recitations of poets and lecturers.
On this account singersare obliged to give up appearing in public before the condition reaches the extreme.
Singers are trained to-day exactly as they were trained two hundred years ago, through a reliance on the imitative faculty.
These singers yield, probably unconsciously, to the instinctive impulse to sing freely and without constraint.
Fully as many throaty singers are heard nowadays as the old masters ever listened to.
Yet a gradual decline in the art of singing must be apparent to any lover of the art who has listened to most of the famous singers of the past twenty or twenty-five years.
During the past twenty years the author has found opportunity to hear most of the famous singers who have visited America, as well as a host of artists of somewhat lesser fame.
It is to be regretted that dramatic singers of this day pay so little attention to purely tonal expressiveness.
This incomplete command of the voice is frequently observed, even among singers of very high standing.
But in the ranks of the minor concert and church singers are many who try conscientiously to obey the instructions of the "breath-control" teachers.
Mills goes further and advocates the imitating of finished singers for the purpose of acquiring the correct vocal action.
It will be objected that this statement is utterly absurd, because many of the world's greatest singers have been trained according to these methods.
Most of the throat troubles of singersare directly caused by throat stiffness and muscular strain.
For singers of that class, the words are of the utmost importance, while the tone-production is usually of the very worst.
You can organize, prepare, hire the best singers and preachers in the universe, but you'll get no power.
There has been a contest between the manager Vanneschi and the singers Mingotti and Ricciarelli;(688) the Duke patronizes the Mingotti and lists under her standard.
If the former does, you will have ample instructions to negotiate for singers and dancers!
Each of the singers is supported upon a cradle which is secured to a four-wheeled car by an upright post strongly braced.
The man who fills his being with the noblest books, and pours their beauty out in word and deed, is like the merry singers on the placid moonlit lake.
The opera at its first production was a complete failure, though this was due more to the singers than to the music.
The orchestra and singers received it very coldly; but when the rehearsal was over, Donizetti merely shrugged his shoulders and remarked to his friend, M.
Many people, as usual, thronged in; they all knelt and the singers intoned the solemn Miserere.
To the west is the round choir, a wooden desk for singers and precentors.
The buoyant and elastic temper of the French trouveur was spiritualized in the Welsh singers by a more refined poetic feeling.
It was strange that such a voice should have awakened no echo in the singers that follow, but the first burst of English song died as suddenly in Chaucer as the hope and glory of his age.
The bitter satire of the Welsh singers bade him knight his horse, since its speed had alone saved him from capture.
He had by this time dropped the Italian singers altogether, and depended mainly on Mrs. Cibber and John Beard, a tenor who had more sense of artistic style than power of voice.
In engaging singers he seems to have been perhaps more prudent than was desirable, for his new company did not contain any very distinguished names.
After the second performance MacSwiney disappeared, leaving the singers unpaid as well as the scene-painters and costume-makers.
The great singers had drawn the public to listen to Handel's operas, but it is clear from many contemporary allusions that Handel's music was too severe to be an attraction in itself, except to cultivated musicians like Mrs. Pendarves.
Italian singers have always been unrivalled in popular favour, and in Handel's days they were not only something new to England, but were the exponents of a vocal art which admittedly has never been surpassed.
Handel's negotiations with the singers were only moderately successful, for he was unable to secure anyone except Signora Durastanti for the opening of the London opera, even though that was delayed until April 1720.
The choir was provided by the singers from the two cathedrals, some of whom took the male solo parts as well; the female soloists were Mrs. Cibber and Signora Avolio.
Opera management at Hamburg was no less precarious than it was in London; Keiser could not afford the Italian singers patronised by the German princes, and his performances had often to be helped out by amateurs of all classes.
In the autumn of 1748 a company of Italian comic-opera singers came over to London; they brought an entirely new type of entertainment, and after their success Handelian opera was buried for ever.
You will find the singers changed when you go to church.
The shrill voices of the two singers died away from their ears, but lingered in the memory of the Marchesino, as the silence of the sea took the boat to itself, the sea silence and the magic of the moon.
And instantly the great bells of the temple rang; the singerssung a new, new song; the grotto blazed with light.
One day Ajainin sat with Jesus in the temple porch; a band of wanderingsingers and musicians paused before the court to sing and play.
When the voices of the singers were silent at the end of a psalm, the bell would take up the burden of complaint in measured and mournful tones, and ring till another psalm was begun.
The singers learned the truth, and sang with watchful eyes.
Miss Greenfield stood among the singers on the staircase, and excited a pathetic murmur among the audience.
For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.
Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.
And the singerssung loud, and Jezraia was their overseer: 12:42.
Singing praises to God is here called prophecy: the more, because these singers were often inspired men.
The pious singers have, after their own mind, shouted towards the giver of wealth, the great, the glorious Indra.
Especially did the multitudinous singers seated far opposite encourage this illusion; and their fluttering fans and handkerchiefs wonderfully mocked the movement of those cravat-like pinions which the fancy attributed to them.
If she had been dependent on her own exertions, I could have made her one of the finest singers in the world.
We all used to call him our uncle just like all these here singers calls the one o' them Daddy.
Absolute deference and punctilious exactness are the rule, not only among the artistes but also among the singers of the minor roles.
After the singers had looked at their gifts and had eaten a slice of plum cake, they went home.
The door was opened, and the little singers came in to warm themselves by the fire.
The singers were standing in a row under the window.
The night amusement in the cool, under the starry sky, with wild nature for a background, pleased dancers and singers exceedingly; they declared that they would travel thenceforth only through the desert.
In the wake of the heir various young lords who go to war taking singers would have shoved themselves into the corps, and they would occupy the highest places.
He had not brought singers himself, but he made no remarks to officers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "singers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
