A Voice For Voices, In A Most Challenging Time
Content showing the value and importance of choral music
Here are links to some inspiring moments of performances by New England choral groups.
Written statements:
Here are video-recorded statements from some prominent musicians on the value and importance of choral music:
"Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. One does not have to know anything about Dido and Aeneas to be moved by her lament for him; anyone who has ever lost someone knows what Dido is expressing. And there is, finally, a deep and mysterious paradox here, for while such music makes one experience pain and grief more intensely, it brings solace and consolation at the same time."
— Steven Jay Gould, long-time member of Boston Cecilia
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