Comments | wendymr: Music in unexpected places

wendymr

Music in unexpected places

Dec 07, 2010 20:36

I'm a bit late posting this, but I haven't seen it appear elsewhere on my flist, so you can have it anyway *g*

The location: Welland Mall, Ontario. The organiser: the director of Chorus Niagara. The soloist: a student at the University of Western Ontario, right here in my city. You can read all about it here - and since the video was posted on ( Read more... )

fun, rl

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elbales December 8 2010, 03:10:39 UTC

Oh, that was marvelous. Thank you so much for posting this, Wendy. What a lovely thing for them to do.

wendymr December 8 2010, 03:14:58 UTC

It's wonderful, isn't it? I wish I lived close enough to Niagara to consider it an evening out - I'd go to their performance in a heartbeat.

wojelah December 8 2010, 05:17:36 UTC

I needed a happy thing tonight - thank you so much for sharing!

calliopes_pen December 8 2010, 12:54:51 UTC

At the same time as they did that spontaneous chorus there, they were also doing it at Kentucky Oaks Mall. People ignored it once they got over the surprise, and just continued shopping. So far as I've heard, not a single place reported the one here. Just the Ontario one.

elshadye December 9 2010, 03:43:14 UTC

That. Was. So. COOL!

Thanks for sharing! I got goosebumps as they sang - I'm so impressed, especially as they were all scattered around, with no conductor (at least as far as I could tell...). I would love to be able to sing like that!

And I love those flash mobs, or whatever they're called - all those fun, harmless but entertaining large group "pranks" (although I don't think this one is a prank so much as a show?) - it would be so fun to actually see one live, but until then YouTube is a beautiful invention!

kholly December 9 2010, 16:45:37 UTC

Nothing like the Hallelujah Chorus to get people stirred up.

And having worked for years in arts education and outreach I love how forward thinking and current the chorus was willing to be.