Something New

Today, I discovered something new and amazing. It's a song called, "Lux Aurumque" by Eric Whitacre. It is performed by the Virtual Choir on YouTube. Now, this might not sound very interesting, but just wait. The Virtual Choir isn't just any choir. It is composed entirely of the videos individual people made of themselves all singing the same song. Hundreds of people auditioned to be in the Virtual Choir, but only some made it. They are a select few from countries allover the world, ranging from Germany to the U.S. and then on to Singapore. Some people may say that this lacks the unity of a "real" choir- meaning one that sings together, all the time, in person. But I disagree. Although an actual choir does present some unity by showing how a bunch of people can literally blend into one voice and one solid thing, I think that the Virtual Choir says something more. Here you have people from all over the world. At first they sang alone, hoping that their auditions would be good enough to be selected. And you may notice that when one person sings this song alone, it's not much to sneeze at. But when all of these people's videos are combined, it forms a beautiful, ethereal song. It says something more because the people weren't together in the beginning. Only when someone else combines their voices can the entire song of Lux Aurumque be heard.

Thanks for listening!

Maggs