A Heartbeat

I always liked the idea of unity: of friends being in a solid team, of families going to vacation together, of human being and their relation with mother earth. It is just beautiful and mesmerizing how far we can achieve something when we go together as one. This adoration has brought me to the experience of singing in a choir. I always find it more interesting than any others, since we can’t make music if we don’t sing it together. Each member has their own parts, it begins to lose all the senses if one does not exist. Friends that became families, people that touched our lives, ones you can’t sing without.

These past few days, I jumped into a recording of Eric Whitacre, titled Choir: The Core of Who We Are. In it he explained that singers who sing together tend to have the same heartbeats. They breath the same compassion and emphaty. They maintain the same tempo and sing to the same rhythm. Also here I quote “it creates a bonding within the physiological bonding with the people in the room”. Speaking of health, singing in a choir reduces the stress hormone cortisol, moreover it releases endorphins. It makes you happy! Not to mention all great harmonies you can contribute in, how you wowed people after singing climax parts of beautiful pieces. All those spotlights, those goosebumps, those touches that move people’s lives and souls. Wow. Then how could that not be such a good reason to start singing in a choir?

The understanding sinks in and I started to believe this is where I belong. In choir, you can’t be just ordinary. The whole process, the same vision you try to deliver. That only, have formed the magical beauty every choir possesses. And have I told you that I always liked the idea of unity? Doesn’t matter how I pictured it before. For me now, there is nothing more intimate, than dozens of hearts beat as one. (SC)

By : Stefany Chandra – 1701335032
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