"Long and frequent rehearsals have brought this performance about. After ... the wage-earning day, these ... Master Singers have converged on time at a rehearsal spot for two hours or more to make sounds that early on could be mistaken for cacaphony. They have done this once, twice, or even three times a week for almost a year. A member keeping attendance records has calculated that the seventy-three singers have spent over three thousand hours in rehearsal... stretched beyond their own realization, to a mutual musical and spiritual conquest. These Master Singers ... joined the ranks of those who have sung the B Minor Mass. They know it, note for note, better than some erudite critics who write reviews of it. ... They have endured; nothing they've done in the past compares with it." -- Marjorie Otis Gifford from concert progam notes.
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