John Neal from singers.com pointed me to this great piece in the TimesOnline:After years of decline, choirs are becoming cool, spurred by the success of the choirmaster Gareth Malone's award-winning BBC2 series on choirs. There are now more than 25,000 registered in Britain. They make people feel good.Read the whole article here.
"Choirs are the only place where people come together and express a common emotion," says Digby, who is also passionate about music education. "That’s why football crowds sing and why choirs are incredibly valuable to society in general."
Great news for our profession. Maybe the new movie Pitch Perfect will send more singers our way.
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