By Dana Corbit Nussio
NOVI, MI — A group of teenagers, several dressed in “Legally Blonde” T-shirts, formed a circle in a classroom corner. While minutes before they'd arrived in class, bringing jokes from lunch and worries about unfinished stage sets along with them, now the busyness was forgotten as the Novi Singers joined together, blending their voices for the joy of the song. Claire Gibbons spoke in a soft voice from the circle's center, where she stood to listen to individual voices and blends as they rehearsed “Ubi Caritas” by Gjeillo.
“I think it would be great if you closed your eyes,” she told them. “I am not conducting. You are shoulder to shoulder. You are feeling the music together.”
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