When COVID-19 hit, no one was ready. It’s closed businesses, events and so many other things. However, we learn and progress from it.
The Amabile Choir is no different. Every year the choir put on one of their most beloved shows; there Remembrance Day production. This year is no exception.
Mark Payne, the co-conductor of the Amabile choir and specialist of HOP studios, says the ‘drive in choir’ is part of a much bigger project. It’s a project within a project.
How does a ‘drive in choir’ work? Payne explained it as everyone will be in a parking lot behind the A.B Lucas Secondary School in their cars. Each person will be given a microphone, all connected with a ton of wire, and will tune into the same FM station. Once they go live, all the choir members will sing together, and will harmonise over the radio.
The Choir has over 50 people, so the recording will be done in two separate rotations.
Carol Beynun, the Senior artistic director, explained that this was the easiest way to record as other platforms didn’t work as well, “Because of the differences in the wavelengths, and receptions and latency and everything that goes along with it, if they were to say the same thing at the same time, it would come out, like gobbledygook, because we would have all the voices at a different time. So when we tried recording, they had to record individually at home and send their tapes in. So this is a way, with the drive in choir, to bring everybody together.”
Tomorrow the Choir will be recording their annual Remembrance day show; In Remembrance: service, sacrifice, and a solider named Winnie.
Tickets for their show can be found at their ticket website. The show will go from November 8th, until the 14th.
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