What is the summit of a choral performance? It is silence (in Latin, silentium). It may seem strange, but it is true. I have already described in other occasions the role of choral music as the evocation of what is not there, a role that follows the dynamic present in the Song of Songs: where is my beloved? Silence is thus not an absence, but the presen…
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