Has anybody been watching this? It's kind of like real-life "Glee" (without the witty script). Last night, we saw choirmaster Gareth Malone take the 150-person choir he formed at a boy's school where "boys don't sing" to perform in from of 4,000+ people at the School Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. You can watch that performance
here. It may not be perfect, but when you realize that most of these boys wouldn't have dreamed of being part of a choir six months earlier, much less performing for thousands, it's just awesome. (The women in the choir are teachers at the school.)
From the program description:
Choirmaster Gareth Malone attempts to create choirs in the most unlikely settings. In the two-time BAFTA award-winning series, The Choir, Gareth sets his sights first on Northolt High School--a school with no music program, then on Lancaster School--an all boys school where sports dominates the landscape and lastly on South Oxhey--a blue collar community.
Gareth's belief that people should have access to sing beautiful music drives his fearless passion to unite people in song. He feels a choir allows people to come together and express themselves as a community which can be a deeply personal and touching human experience. But as he finds out, getting people together to form a choir is no small feat. He first has to overcome perceptions that being in a choir and singing is both uncool and embarrassing.
Gareth Malone is my new hero. This is one BBC show I would love to see adapted in the States.
The Choir on BBC America.
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