Summer Sings

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In DC, there is a tradition of having summer sings, meaning singalongs, for big choral works. DC is a great town for choral singing, and the majority of those who participate in summer sings know the work(s) being sung, so the musicmaking sounds pretty good for a pick-up group singing together for the first time. Sometimes the choristers even honor the dynamics!

Tomorrow night, some friends and I are going to a Brahms Requiem summer sing; this will be sung in German, unlike a singalong some years ago out in a suburban church in which the work was sung in English (), which rendered me literally speechless, as my score has only German text.

Have you summer sings in your burg? If so, do you go to them?