You can’t argue when you’re singing. But you can get plenty excited, especially while belting out a rousing anthem such as “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”
“What we want to do at the end is get everybody riled up,” director Allison King encouraged the Touch of Class Chorale during a recent rehearsal.
Touch of Class, a 40-member community choir, was getting ready for a series of four charitable Clark County concerts boldly entitled “There Will be Peace in the World.” Choosing that theme “was a no-brainer,” said choir director King during a rehearsal break.
“There is so much acrimony around the election. I needed to do this for myself as much as for anyone else. Fortunately, there is a plethora of material on this theme,” King said, and it spans everything from Mozart and Leonard Bernstein to that grand singalong from the hippie musical “Hair.”