Let's try it again. Ooh, the TED choir.

Eric Whitacre A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir Live

This time is different, argues the chorus of China skeptics.

Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the national anthem of the Russian Federation performed by the Sretensky Monastery Choir.

Then the Money Power struck back, aided and abetted by its apologist cohort of economists.

A chorus of voices from the left and right argue against continued government support for biofuel.

Now even European Central Bank Governor Jean Claude Trichet has joined the chorus of concern.

Rather, he enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and sang in the First Baptist Choir.

On September 20, 2011, Princess Rym Ali was decorated with French Knight of the Legion of Honour by French Ambassador to Jordan.

But the number of arts participants, people who write poetry, who sing songs, who perform in church choirs, is exploding beyond our wildest imaginations.

According to a knowledgeable ECB source, however, Europe s finance ministers regularly meet in secret with the ECB leadership for a mutual and frank exchange of views on monetary policy and other issues. The dialogue already exists though the public does not know it.

(In the context of ancient Greek literature, monody, could simply refer to lyric poetry sung by a single performer, rather than by a chorus.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank lead the chorus of traditional players eager to help, offering debt write offs and concessionary finance.

Despite the chorus of voices condemning austerity, labor market flexibility, and so on, there is a reasonable chance that these are the reforms that will be pursued.

And I was on a college choir tour up in Northern California, and we had stopped for the day after all day on the bus, and we were relaxing next to this beautiful idyllic lake in the mountains.

Every week, a preposterous coterie of European bankers and finance ministers drags itself from one capital to another to discuss which default restructuring plan to adopt.

So those concerned with job losses in US manufacturing should join the chorus lobbying for a much smaller fiscal deficit.

It was just extraordinary, and when I came back home I found a poem by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and decided to set it to music, a piece for choir called Cloudburst, which is the piece that we'll perform for you in just a moment.

Unfortunately, at every step during the past decade and still today a chorus of aid skeptics has argued against the needed help.

Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament, is only one in a growing chorus of voices calling for the creation of Eurobonds.

Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, joined the chorus of critics, complaining about the fading of political power in a time of globalization.

According to a knowledgeable ECB source, however, Europe s finance ministers regularly meet in secret with the ECB leadership for a mutual and frank exchange of views on monetary policy and other issues. The dialogue already exists though the public does not know it.

Before the meeting, recognising her growing fame abroad, and embarrassed by the fact that she had no French official distinctions to wear in public, the French government offered her a Legion of Honour award, but she refused.

And I had this idea if I could get 50 people to all do this same thing, sing their parts soprano, alto, tenor and bass wherever they were in the world, post their videos to YouTube, we could cut it all together and create a virtual choir.

Every week, a preposterous coterie of European bankers and finance ministers drags itself from one capital to another to discuss which default restructuring plan to adopt. Meanwhile, Greece s agony continues, and the markets wait to swoop down on Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain.

Screening of the film Raising Their Voices The Story of the Sinikithemba Choir followed by a panel discussion (organized by the Joint United Nations Porgramme on HIV AIDS (UNAIDS), on the occasion of World AIDS Day)

NEW HAVEN The punditocracy has once again succumbed to the China Crash syndrome a malady that seems to afflict economic and political commentators every few years. Never mind the recurring false alarms over the past couple of decades.

The French government conferred on him the decoration of the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) the Royal Society of Arts in London awarded him the Albert Medal in 1902 the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, granted him a PhD, and he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1912.

SEATTLE Sometimes the best measure of a movement s momentum is the reaction of its critics. When, in early October, the Australian National University (ANU) announced that it would sell its shares in seven fossil fuel and mining companies, it triggered a chorus of criticism from the country s conservative politicians.

The humanitarian community joined the regime change chorus when Assad responded to Arab Spring protesters demand for political liberalization by unleashing the army and paramilitaries. From March to August 2011, Assad s forces killed around 2,000 people.