It took a few days to make posts and get ready for an active summer life. Today I will tell you about a very interesting event that took place on June 5.
This event is called Dawn Chorus.
It was a mysterious, divine, extraordinary, tear-jerking, majestic event.
It took place in the morning, very early, already at 7 am and lasted until 9 am. This time was chosen specifically. At this time during the week, on Wednesday,people are rushing to work. The place of action was also chosen specifically – the busiest subway station Toronto-Union Station. The exit is the busiest – into the premises of an old high-rise building Bay-Adelaide Place,55 Front St.W.
The lively crowd in the building that day in the morning was filled with the magical singing of 6 choirs, which were located on two floors of the house.
Choirs were selected for this event not only from Canada. I had the opportunity to work with a choir from Bulgaria.
So, in the morning, a large crowd rushes to work. And then the music begins to sound. Acapella singing of choirs. The singing of choirs was heard from several sides of the building at once. It was so fantastic that it seemed that some kind of magic was happening.
The thing is that the places where the choirs were located were chosen so as not to interfere with people passing by, but in an acoustic place where the sound was most audible.
Six points of two floors sounded in polyphony.
I can show a rehearsal before the performance of the Bulgarian choir. From the video you will understand how correctly the place for the choir was chosen.
The repertoire of the choirs was composed of songs about the morning, about spring. about Easter, connected with the sun, the arrival of spring. The songs excited and gave energy.
People stopped….
Listened…..
Standed still for a moment…….
Pull out their cell phones, took pictures. Then ran off to do their business…..
The polyphony flowed non-stop. One choir fell silent, while the sounds of singing came from another choir from the upper floor. Then it was heard somewhere to the left.
And it flowed from floor to floor, enveloping the walls and the room.
The most crowded place in Toronto, in the middle of the week, in the morning, sang in many languages, exciting, giving such an energetic flavor that no one was indifferent.
And even though it’s been a week, I can’t forget it.
It intertwines with the morning birdsong when I wake up in the rays of the sun.
It adds enchantment and some magic.
Then these choirs dissolved into the crowd and, without haste, one by one went to gather in a heap under the main dome of the building. Each of the choristers walked, playing a clay pipe.
It was interesting to see this.
They gathered in the central hall and sang their main song.
A fantastic idea. An unsurpassed performance.
How one must love people and enjoy music to give such a wonderful morning song to the residents of Toronto.
This is LUMINATO.
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