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Recent Examples of chantey
The United States Navy Band Sea Chanters chorus is an outreach programs of the U.S. Navy and performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral works to sea chanteys, patriotic fare, and even opera.
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oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
Ralph Tufo plays a sea chantey on his concertina.
—Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
Sea chantey TikToks are choral performances that will never see the inside of a concert hall, even if the folks behind them get record deals.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired, 12 Apr. 2021
Sea Music Festival The 39th annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport features four days of workshops, concerts, a children’s stage with special performances and demonstrations of maritime work songs – or chanteys – aboard historic vessels.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 June 2018
Since 1871, the group has serenaded audiences with folk songs, love songs, show tunes, sea chanteys, and semi-classical music.
—Kathy Shiels Tully, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
Join a sea chantey sing along at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. In honor of Earth Day, the Aquarium of the Bay is organizing volunteers to clean the Park’s Aquatic Park beach from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. https://AquaticPark EarthDay2018.eventbrite.com.
—Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
Primarily abandoning the ’80s-style synthesizers that coat much of their new studio material, the Decemberists relied on folk-rock and sea-chantey standbys — as well as the golden throats of prior collaborators Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.
—Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
The Sea Chanters, the U.S. Navy’s official chorus, is set to perform a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, sea chanteys and patriotic fare to opera, Broadway and contemporary music.
—Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
Ralph Tufo plays a sea chantey on his concertina.
—Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
Sea chantey TikToks are choral performances that will never see the inside of a concert hall, even if the folks behind them get record deals.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired, 12 Apr. 2021
Sea Music Festival The 39th annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport features four days of workshops, concerts, a children’s stage with special performances and demonstrations of maritime work songs – or chanteys – aboard historic vessels.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 June 2018
Since 1871, the group has serenaded audiences with folk songs, love songs, show tunes, sea chanteys, and semi-classical music.
—Kathy Shiels Tully, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
Join a sea chantey sing along at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. In honor of Earth Day, the Aquarium of the Bay is organizing volunteers to clean the Park’s Aquatic Park beach from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. https://AquaticPark EarthDay2018.eventbrite.com.
—Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
Primarily abandoning the ’80s-style synthesizers that coat much of their new studio material, the Decemberists relied on folk-rock and sea-chantey standbys — as well as the golden throats of prior collaborators Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.
—Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
The Sea Chanters, the U.S. Navy’s official chorus, is set to perform a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, sea chanteys and patriotic fare to opera, Broadway and contemporary music.
—Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chantey
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Believer or not, there is no denying the palpable spiritual energy that pervades the Kumbh: offerings of flowers and incense sticks drift across the water; the days are filled with chants and drumming; and smoke from earthen lamps curls through the air.Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2024
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After 10 years of boos, ‘VC SUCKS’ chants, and much, much more, the moment that helped turn the corner between Carter and the city of Toronto was when he was honored while playing for the Grizzlies in 2014.Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Or the hushed atmosphere of Le Coucou, where flickering candles join a chorus of custom pewtered-steel chandeliers and cast-glass sconces….Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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Back at the saucy-exposition meeting room, our big-wig Greek chorus of Mullins, Mason, and Hollar express concern over the convenience of their new asset’s cover story and point out the historical stickiness of CIA operations moving drugs across the border.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Each woman at Madison Square Garden took turns, almost treating the song like a lullaby, a different gig for a different sky.Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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Gaga delivers this Cole Porter classic like a lullaby, indulging in the beauty of the song’s composition rather than dwelling on the lyrics’ regret.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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This week Kendrick Lamar shakes the music world with a surprise album, Rosé slows it down in a soul-baring ballad, and Ariana Grande makes her dreams come true with a highlight from the Wicked soundtrack.Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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Grande and Erivo give Stephen Schwartz’s songs — comedy numbers, introspective ballads, power anthems — effortless spontaneity.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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If Mike Myers hadn’t created Austin Powers — whose series of films employs this instrumental ditty as a theme — somebody would’ve had to have come up with a similar character just to take advantage of the song’s limitless swag.Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rita, being the daughter of a pub piano man, gets to sing live when the BBC arrives for a morale-boosting outside broadcast, and Ronan soulfully executes a sweet pastiche of 1940s ditties, composed by Nicholas Britell and Taura Stinson.Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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The College Football Playoff in Atlanta is getting a serenade.Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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She was also seen receiving a package and a serenade from a mariachi band in Madrid in photos taken back in April.Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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According to the station’s records, the aria was performed on WEVD in 1963, 1964 and 1965.Jon Kalish, Sun Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024
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Popular pop and country songs blaring over the sound system were punctuated by an Italian opera aria, and finally the warm-up speakers, all local politicians, made their dutiful speeches.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Chantey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chantey. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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