Every choir, regardless of age, gender, size, or strength, is a sacred institution. Choral music is one of the hallmarks of a civilization. Some cultures have no dance and no pictorial arts, but singing seems to be universally present as the breath of life. Civilization needs its songs, and it needs its singers. When they gather together to breathe in the planet's atmosphere and release it transformed by the very symbol of life and spirit, the human voice, they are a zone of power. They produce a medicine all the more needed since the disease of cultural memory loss found in our mobile, technological society so often goes unrecognized and untreated. If music educators can keep the world's lifeblood circulating through even the smallest, most out-of-the-way artery, then they are healers; they play a larger-than-life role. They expand the limits of the possible and in the process are transformed themselves.
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