WHEN the story of the ingenuity of humans during this coronavirus emergency comes to be written, there will be a special chapter for choirs and chorus-masters.
Faced with a complete prohibition on singing together at a time when that activity was going through a resurgence in popularity, the dangers of aerosol transmission of the disease required some radical thinking and comprehensive re-skilling.
Bearsden Choir, based in the affluent suburb of north Glasgow but recruiting much more widely, is two years past its 50th birthday. Under the directorship of Andrew Nunn, who is also the Junior Conservatoire’s director of choirs at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and artistic director of the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland, it was one of those amateur choruses going through a boom era, with healthy membership numbers and regular, well received concerts before Christmas and in the early summer.