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Tour - The Ultimate Experience of Choir
by Philip L. Copeland (May 13, 2008 6:00 AM)

I found this blog post about choir tour today. It's a bit on the "religious" side, but an authentic expression of what can happen on a choir tour:

This is why I view tour as the ultimate experience of choir . . . it is on tour that I have found my own healing, and witnessed the healing of others.

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Tour is a time when the single place that we spend the most time is on the bus. We spend some time in silence, some time singing, and some time laughing and talking and getting to know each other. And much of that time is given not to chasing after another experience to devour – though you could, if not thinking about the second kind of fun but only the first – but to the buildup of something greater. The meaning of the words of the songs that we sing; the meaning of what it is to sing together; the meaning of what it is to form the truly unique body that we make up; the meaning of surrendering ourselves in the name of something better.



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