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Godspell but not Grease: Choir director floored by religious-only allowances for singing I can stand in a church and sing Godspell, but I cannot stand in a church and sing Grease, because COVID apparently knows the difference between religious music and non-religious music, and that is the circus of it all
Author of the article: Brodie Thomas
Publishing date: Feb 13, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 5 minute read • Calgary choir director and small business owner Jamie Serafi, who runs Cool Choir Calgary’s largest pop and rock choir is upset at certain COVID rule relaxations that he says may be discriminatory. Photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
Choir director angered by religious-only allowances for singing I can stand in a church and sing Godspell, but I cannot stand in a church and sing Grease, because COVID apparently knows the difference between religious music and non-religious music, and that is the circus of it all
Author of the article: Brodie Thomas
Publishing date: Feb 13, 2021  â¢Â February 13, 2021  â¢Â 5 minute read  â¢Â Calgary choir director and small business owner Jamie Serafi, who runs Cool Choir â Calgaryâs largest pop and rock choir â is upset at certain COVID rule relaxations that he says may be discriminatory. Photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
He founded a professional concert choir.
At the time there were only three such choirs in Canada Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Every other Canadian chorus was formed of amateur enthusiasts, but this one would have singers whose lives were dedicated to choral performance, and who would be paid for that dedication. Pro Coro was formed, and since then has gone from strength to strength, famed across Canada and far beyond.
Gervais had trained in Austria and Sweden and discovered the new kind of choral sound the Swedish choirs had developed, often using new vocal techniques. He decided to create that sound in Edmonton and spent the next seven months training his new choir. Pro Coro’s first concert took place in September 1981, and, like the choir itself, it was revolutionary.
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