"Then we had to finish the song with a 'Feed the world', happy, hands-in-the-air choir thing," he says.
As though she had prompted a choir, the air is suddenly full of the song of curlews, a fluted, buoyant torrent of sound tumbling down from the moor above me.
So he invited White, Taylor and the Houston Gospel Choir on air to perform "Lean On Me" with The Roots.
Tha e ro chunnartach do na busaichean falbh leis cho làidir sa tha a' ghaoth neo tha tuilleadh sa choir sneachda air na rathaidean.
You may even spot me waving my arms in the air along with the choirs of College International Ferney-Voltaire and International School Geneva, and will.i.am on skype if you so wish.
Only Kids Aloud, who were in a video played during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, performed at an open-air concert, as did choir Only Men Aloud.
The glittering lights also play the perfect backdrop for the numerous community choirs who fill the air with tidings of comfort and joy each night.
This is a combination of a 90's choir sampler patch mixed with my voice and dead air.
She complemented the "dramatic, theatrical air" of the song and noted that the addition of the choir made the song revelatory and ecstatic.
The choir will still sing and the spires will still receive air time, but the strategy was recalibrated.
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