COMMUNITY BACH
SIR,--Mr. Martin Cooper suggests that the audience of Bach's Passion music might participate next year in the chorales. Admittedly a large proportion of the audience is familiar with them, and with the aid of a rehearsal or two, as he suggests, a result might be produced which would be satisfactory as well as satisfying. All the same I object strongly. It is difficult to get a seat for the performances and they are few and far between. This makes it imperative that every member of the audience must be as sure of a perfect hearing as possible. But it might be the lot of a musical member of the audience to be placed next to an enthusiastic participant whose voice and rendering would painfully fall short of the requisite standard.—Yours faithfully.
Rhosygilwen, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire.
RITA MORGAN-RICHARDSON.
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