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Press page 3 continued from page 2 Norman Brown takes a similar tack. Conductor of two other local non-audition choirs - Atlantic Voices (80 members) and The Ottawa Folk Community Choir (50 members) - Brown says that a lot of conductors don't want the challenge of dealing with members who can't read music or stay on key. "It takes patience, compassion, understanding," says Brown. But the payoff is huge. "When they get it right and the music is just so beautiful, I just get this big grin on my face. I'm beaming, just like a lighthouse beacon." Back over at Big Soul Project's rehearsal, the choir - civil servants, an anthropologist, a couple of nurses; all shapes, sizes and ages - has hit one of those incandescent moments with the feisty spiritual Rise Up Shepherd and Follow. Sure, elsewhere during rehearsal the choir's timing might go a little askew or a couple of voices strike out on their own, but when they're on the money, as they are with this tune, a stone would grow legs and boogie. In fact, Linda Grafton, though hardly a stone, has learned the joy of dance since joining the choir. "I've always sung, but I used to feel very self-conscious about movement. I always felt like Forrest Gump with two left feet. Now I don't. I don't know what I look like, but I feel good. It's all about jubilation, isn't it?" continued page 4 |
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