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A baritone finds a safe way choirs can sing together again: over car radios Richard Read
Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs.
Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event.
Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world. The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever, said an email Newman received from Wisconsin s Madison Bach Musicians.
Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs.
Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event.
Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world.
“The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever,” said an email Newman received from Wisconsin’s Madison Bach Musicians.
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Singing had been the centerpiece of his life. It got him through high school and into Westminster Choir College, a music school in New Jersey, where he majored in vocal performance.
This is the first time in many years that I havenât spent a good deal of the holiday season helping in one way or another with the production of one or more Christmas plays.
In a way, this has been something of a relief. Christmas plays are stressful and, should the Ghost of Christmas Plays Past take me on a tour, most of the stops would involve disasters that (most of the time) didnât quite happen.
On one show, the off-stage actors had to take to take turns holding up the set so it wouldnât fall down during the performance. In another show, my most vivid memory is of the off-stage cast holding hands and praying that the leading actress would actually hit that dramatic high note that was just above her comfortable singing range (she did!). Then there was that Sunday school production where a preschool angel started playing with an Advent candle and threatened to set the whole church on fire.