A major part of life is spent looking for community. The fact that people can reach the extraordinary intellectual precocity of great music, and experience its beauty and ethical integrity by singing together with 50 or 100 other people, that’s an extraordinary thing.

The physical act of singing undoubtedly delights people. They find themselves expressing things they couldn’t express by themselves soloistically. Everyone realizes you are doing something that is unavailable to you as an individual…singing together with the quality of literature now available brings everybody a delight in community without any loss of individuality and self-respect. You’re doing something that only ennobles everybody.

from Christian Science Monitor