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AARP: The Miraculous Virtual Choir of the Pandemic

November 6, 2020 at 10:29 am UTC

Nothing about choirs is harmonious with COVID-19.

Group singing, which generates respiratory droplets at high rates in close quarters, dramatically increases chances of COVID spread. Linked to multiple outbreaks, choirs have been silenced in most places.

But that didn’t stop conductor and composer Eric Whitacre from assembling the largest choir in history to perform his new piece “Sing Gently.” The 17,572 singers were socially distanced online. Each had submitted videotaped vocals to Whitacre, who painstakingly stitched them into a massive online chorus, viewed so far by 1.4 million on YouTube.

Read the full article on AARP.com.

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