Summary: Zoe Jensen has recently divorced and moved to San Francisco to start her life over again. She joins a church choir, but has a personality conflict with the choirmaster, who expects nothing less than perfection. The choir continues to practice for a performance of Handel's Messiah, but Zoe considers quitting when she is pushed by the choirmaster to her limits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Christmas 2009Summary: With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILSummary: A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISRyan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RYASummary: In the exhilarating, heart-rending final season, club favorites reunite and a new group of young performers takes center stage. Following her disastrously short sitcom career, Rachel returns to McKinley High to find Principal Sue Sylvester trampling the arts, including the glee club. Without missing a beat, Rachel and a newly single Kurt set out to revitalize New Directions, hoping for a shot...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GLESummary: The story of a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show. She is distracted from her task when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARGoldsmith, Joan Oliver.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.11 GOLBarrett, T. L.
Summary: Pastor T.L. Barrett led a youth choir out of Chicago during the late '60s and early '70s, just a few years after he got on the straight and narrow path, which may help listeners understand the unique power of the material on Like a Ship... (Without a Sail). Self-released by Barrett in 1971, it communicates many things, foremost being adoration and praise and, on the title track, the lost,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light in the Attic Records Records & Distribution 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS BARSummary: A group of men find purpose, companionship and even fame as members of a male choir in Berlevåg, Norway. From singing above precipitous cliffs during a raging snowstorm to the backstage maneuverings on their Russian tour, these rugged men bare their souls through songs of faith and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COOSummary: From Ryan Murphy, the creator of "Nip/Tuck" comes a musical comedy that follows an optimistic high school teacher as he tries to transform the Glee Club and inspire a group of outcasts to make it to Nationals. Includes the episodes from the second half of season one and bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GleePollak, Kay
Summary: A successful conductor with health problems suddenly leaves his job and returns to his childhood home in Sweden, and finds himself drawn to the unusual characters, one woman in particular, when he begins helping out the local church choir.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, G.G. Sparrow...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JoyfulSummary: In 1990s Scotland, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURFurlong, Nicola.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guideposts 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURHornby, Gill.
Summary: Four strangers in the midst of difficult life transitions find friendship, purpose, and perfect pitch in in this heartfelt comic novel. In the small English village of St. Ambrose, the members of the Bridgeford Community Choir have little in common. But when their singing coach dies unexpectedly before a big contest, the motley group must join forces and voices in pursuit of an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORRyan, Jennifer
Summary: As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION RYARyan, Jennifer
Summary: Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYARyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAMendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Contents: Overture, op. 21 -- Incidental music, op. 61: No. 1, Scherzo ; No. 2, L'istesso tempo ; March of the fairies ; No. 3, Song with chorus ; No. 4, Andante-Allegro molto ; "Help me, Lysander, help me!" ; No. 5, Intermezzo ; No. 7, Nocturne ; No. 8, Andante ; No. 9, Wedding march ; No. 10, Allegro comodo ; Marcia funebre ; "Will it please you to see the epilogue" ; No. 11, A dance of clowns ; No....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MENContents: Chili Dawg (David Grisman) (5:38) -- Walkin' boss (Garcia/Grisman) (5:17) -- Vibraç̧õ̃es (Jacob do Bandolim) (4:21) -- She's no angel (Bluegrass Reunion) (3:58) -- Faraway over the mountain (Radim Zenkl) (4:16) -- Jazzin' with Joe-Bob (David Grisman Quintet) (5:34) -- Songs de Carrilõ̃es (Enrique Coria) (3:00) -- Louis Collins (Garcia/Grisman/Rice) (5:08) -- O'Banion's wake (David Grisman)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Acoustic Disc 1993