It's a choir that preaches to itself.
Michael Jackson wants a children's choir that knows sign language.
This is also a choir that puts a premium on robustness.
He continued, "We are lucky as we have a choir that does it for us.
(They turned out to be Graduale Nobili, the Icelandic girls' choir that is accompanying Björk on her tour).
"My father had, when I was very young, a gospel choir that came to our house and rehearsed.
He performed with the San Francisco opera company, and sang in a choir that performed at Barack Obama's first inauguration.
But it is Holy Name's all-Haitian choir that continues to help heal local Haitians, and it does so through song.
He is preaching to a choir that was converted long ago: Who among the National's constituency wouldn't be on the side of societal betterment and compassion?
Setting aside for a moment the issue of gender discrimination, there are several other attributes of the traditional cathedral choir that are ripe for reassessment.
But I was lucky enough to get in and this was the children's choir that often performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
