Perfect harmony
The four singers stood at the front of the sanctuary safely distanced from one another and stared out at row upon row upon row of empty seats inside the Linworth United Methodist Church on the Northwest Side.
Sweaters replaced their ordinary blue choir robes, and a series of cameras took the place of an audience.
Sidney Conn, who was singing alto this night, grew frustrated that her duckbill mask designed especially for vocalists kept slipping. And tenor Austin Wood had already recorded a solo of Ave Maria
in Latin
twice, so he feared his voice was tiring.
Meanwhile, director of traditional worship Christine Hiester conducting from a socially-distanced spot about eight rows back waved her arm frantically to get the attention of longtime accompanist Tom Cook, who needs his reading glasses to see his sheet music but was having a difficult time spotting his cue from so far away at his organ bench.
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