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The choir

Mass choirs, directors and the rehearsal craft that holds forty voices together.

4 numbers · latest 09/14/2026

  1. How a mass choir holds forty voices together

    The book of a Tuesday rehearsal: sectional work, parts sung by rote, a director's ear against forty voices, and what holds when Sunday comes.

    5 min

  2. What a choir director carries to the loft

    A singing-school look inside a gospel choir director's folder: the keys chosen, the parts fixed by rote, and the quiet hour nobody watches each week.

    5 min

  3. The mass choir tradition in Tampa

    How volunteer choirs drawn from many congregations hold Tampa's gospel calendar together, one anniversary program, one van, one director at a time.

    5 min

  4. Robes, risers and the geometry of the loft

    A singing-school field notes on the physical craft behind gospel choir sound: riser spacing, robe rails, sight lines to the director, the room's own echo.

    5 min