Word: choiring
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...choir needs its professionals. "We'd be all over the lot, surrounding notes as opposed to hitting them," says Carl Igelbrink, a bass. There is also the matter of attendance. Igelbrink will miss three rehearsals this month because of business travel. An alto has a conflict with a Chinese language class, and another has been out speaking to Hispanic groups for the Republican Party. But the professionals always show up; they need the income while they ! struggle to build performing careers...
...instance, by the absence of a popular soprano, who lives someplace called Katydid Lane and who is celebrated for crawling around her living room in her nightgown lest her appearance in the picture window scare off visiting deer. The chemistry is also different because Ethel Brandon, who directed the choir for 38 years, is now back in the congregation after an illness, a 90-year-old soprano belting out The Church Triumphant...
...family, different people take different satisfactions from the choir. Igelbrink, a vice president at Sperry & Hutchinson Co., arrives at rehearsal with his office face on, peering over his reading glasses, but begins to loosen up on Give Us the Wings of Faith. Chris Forrest, a computer consultant, delights in the camaraderie with professional singers...
...away from singing into the ministry, as the parish intern. He sings with the bass section now merely as a volunteer. "It's been more difficult for him to replace me, because I'm still here, than for me to step aside," says Vanderveen. But his friends in the choir say singing means more to Vanderveen than he realizes. His key ring is an organ stop labeled "choral bass...
Buswell, meanwhile, has not entered the social life of the choir. He hurries in late from an audition and rushes out again after the final "Amen." He has come here from New Hampshire, and he would be more comfortable with the simple liturgy of a New England Congregational church. What has really kept Buswell from fitting in, though, is his rich, resonant voice...