Chorus Pro Musica - Driveway Choir - Brahms Requiem sing

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Chorus Pro Musica teamed up with the Driveway Choir to sing the Brahms Requiem on October 24, 2020 in a parking lot in Newton, MA. We invited members of other local choruses and family members to join as well. Choirs cannot sing together indoors in 2020, so here's how we do it with no latency, and without exchanging germs. Singers use microphones from inside their cars, we use an audio mixer to combine their voices into a choir sound, then we broadcast it on a low-power FM radio station so that everyone can hear.
Jamie Kirsch (the conductor) and 32 singers had microphones. 19 other people joined to sing along or listen. Because of COVID, the chorus had not seen each other, nor sung together, for 7 months. And they had never sung from cars or with microphones before (who has?). Even so, they came together and did an amazing job.
We sang the whole requiem. This video contains just a 1-minute selection from each of the seven movements.
Soloists:
Terry Halco, piano
David McFerrin, baritone
Teresa Wakim, soprano
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Marvelous! I have sung this piece before (in English) and I was astonished how much of it came back.