“If children don’t have things like singing in their lives, if they’re just existing, we’re going to pay for that in the future,” choir director Carol Schoch said.
Schoch, 60, of Farmington Hills led the group she founded through its sixth annual spring concert Saturday, calling it a chance for more than 150 children — ages 8 to 14, and 90% of them Detroiters — to inspire themselves as much as the audience. About 1,000 people gathered for the free event at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, on the city’s west side.
Singing a repertoire that included songs in Italian, Latin and Swahili, the choir — actually a combined chorus of nine choirs — sang with sweet and, at times, syncopated gusto.
Three of the nine groups that comprise the Detroit Children’s Choir are based at K-8 Detroit public schools; a fourth has children from a private academy in Detroit, and other children were recruited from neighborhood centers in the city, Schoch said.
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