Hold on

Last night the mass choir rehearsed for a performance this Saturday at Guelph's state-of-the-art River Run Centre. It caused me a conflict of feelings I hadn't expected.

It's an unique opportunity for the Waterloo-Wellington Rainbow Chorus to perform together with five other community choirs from the Guelph area. The semi-professional Guelph Chamber Choir has presented similar events before, but all of them have been Christmas concerts. This time conductor Gerry Neufeld chose a spring date instead, and Victorian Traditions as its theme. It will include a strawberry social.

Each of the five guest choirs has seven minutes to perform music selected from its own repertoire. Guelph Chamber Choir and Guelph Concert Band will take centre stage however. And the highlight is supposed to be six numbers we will all sing together as a mass choir. I like the idea in principle, but in practice it's bringing out everything I like least about choral music.

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