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Updated: May 27, 2025
Again the choirmaster's voice, patient and wearied, began the refrain. Instinctively Bud's little chest swelled, and involuntarily his clear, high treble took the note and sustained it without break through the measures, and then triumphantly broke into the solo. The bishop's eyes shone. "Come," he said, rising and going towards the door, "come with me."
Then would I flee away " the choirmaster's white hands were fluttering downwards in the dusk, and the chorus sank with them "flee away and be at rest!" Jack March had a busy little brain, and his nature was not of the limp type that sits down with a grief. That most memorable tea-party had fired his soul with two distinct ambitions.
After the fashion of the piece and period, the chorus was repeated, and the singers rose to supreme effort. The choirmaster's hands flashed hither and thither, controlling, inspiring, directing. He sang among the tenors. Jack's voice nearly choked him with longing to sing too. Could words of man go more deeply home to a young heart caged within workhouse walls? "Oh that I had wings like a dove!
A few more notes from the organ, and then, as night-stillness in a wood is broken by the nightingale, so upon the silence of the church a boy-alto's voice broke forth in obedience to the choirmaster's uplifted hand: "Then, I said I said "
The clear young voices soared and chased each other among the arches, as if on the very pinions for which they prayed. Then swept from their seats by an upward sweep of the choirmaster's arms the chorus rose, as birds rise, and carried on the strain. It was not a very fine composition, but this final chorus had the singular charm of fugue.
Well accustomed to produce his voice to good purpose, the choirmaster's words were clearly to be heard throughout the building, and it was on the subject of articulation and emphasis, and the like, that he was speaking; now and then throwing in an extra aspirate in the energy of that enthusiasm without which teaching is not worth the name. "That'll not do. We must have it altogether different.
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