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Head, the Chorale director, pointed to one transformative moment from a competition in Spain in 2010. One evening, choirs from around the globe found themselves in the same Barcelona restaurant for a late-night dinner. One table from Bulgaria spontaneously launched into a song distinctive to Bulgarian culture. A table from Germany then followed suit. Then another table. And another. Soon, a multilingual concert was underway, with participants reveling in a shared passion, a familiar adage top of mind: “If everyone sang in a choir, there would be no war.”
Most recently, during the summer of 2023, the Chorale traveled to Wales for the Llangollen Choir of the World event, which you might call the Super Bowl of singing competitions. They secured a first-place win in the Open Choir division. But it’s this connection to a shared humanity that Blue Hens have come home crooning about.
“This is why art exists,” Head said. “It reminds us we are more alike than we are different. The same things make us happy; the same things make us melancholy. There’s something profoundly beautiful about that.”