Ad Hoc Choirs

Usually the one thing all choirs have in common is singing — recognizably musical activity of some sort. But the world is always changing, and the choral world is no different.
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Arts Hub readers might remember my previous article Whining As Performance Art: Tales of ‘Valituskuoro’ published on these pages April 10th. In that article I noted that the idea of just what makes a choir a choir is fairly elastic. The complaints choirs springing up all over the world are only the tip of the mysterious iceberg that is strange choral enterprise.

Usually the one thing all choirs have in common is singing — recognizably musical activity of some sort. But the world is always changing, and the choral world is no different.

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Deborah Griffin Bly
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Deborah Griffin Bly is a musician and writer living in Staten Island, New York.