- an
education for 70 scholars.
Gradually numbers rose, a
choir of 16 "
quiristers"
being added alongside paying pupils known as "commoners".
Numbers expanded...
- Maunder:
Christopher Hogwood,
Academy of
Ancient Music,
Westminster College Quiristers,
Winchester Cathedral Choir,
Arleen Augér,
Lynne Dawson, John-Mark Ainsley...
-
welcomed Quiristers to be
educated with the 'Commoners'. They still, however, have 4
dormitories for the
Quiristers and some Commoners. The
Quiristers continue...
- worship, such as
Winchester College in England, the more
archaic spelling quirister is used. An
Anglican choir typically uses "SATB"
voices (soprano or treble...
-
Because of his
musical ability, he
became master of the
Winchester College Quiristers (Choristers). He died on
College Street, Winchester.
Whiting is best known...
-
pillars of marble; her
organs though small yet are they rich and neat; her
quiristers though but few, yet
orderly and decent." The
author then
describes the...
- age 12 to sing in the Choirs.
These young boys are
called Quiristers, or Qs . The
Quiristers are
educated at The Pilgrims’ School,
receiving a 40% discount...
- the son of a
prison governor. In
Winchester he was
invited to join the
Quiristers in the
Winchester College Chapel Choir.
Before he
turned ten, one of his...
- in Nomber, all
wayes seene at lowe
water who are not
wthout some
small Quiristers, who
shewe not themselves, but at
spring tydes, and calm seas, The chiefest...
- 100
pupils in total,
nominally the 70 scholars, 16
choirboys known as "
quiristers", and the rest "commoners".
Demand for
places for
commoners was high,...
