And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.

Singer of songs.

Choir Aahs

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

Pad 4 Choir

This is Sleep, the Virtual Choir.

A choir that sings in tune.

The choirmaster's daughter.

This is Lux Aurumque sung by the Virtual Choir.

It wasn't a virtual choir.

My sister and I used to sing in choirs together constantly.

The 10 Tapping Troubadours?

Eric Whitacre A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

Look behind the altar and up at the choir.

That's the Klopmann Monastery Choir.

And because of that, then a lot of singers started saying, All right, what's Virtual Choir 2.0?

Of course you can. I've heard you. Very nice for choirs and weddings, but...

Singer of songs? But what work did you do?

Now, we're going to do other poems for you, and here's a preview of some of the poets.

I asked the choirmaster to allow you to play there.

What I'd like to close with then today is the first look at Sleep by Virtual Choir 2.0.

There we were, the whole act, the 10 Tapping Troubadours.

But to sing beautiful things... and make people believe them

You've all seen him sitting here... a member of this choir.

We will now sing hymn number 256... 2, 5, 6... omitting verses three and four.

I feel a closeness to this choir almost like a family.

I'd like to practice the final choral now. The children still don't sing well enough.

Now, let us sing hymn number 291, Oft in Danger, Oft in Woe .

(singing if I fall ill, I won't go to the doctors.)

In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir.

The Sleepy Giant, which is the song that I just sang, is one of his poems.

Before you acquired the shop and the farm, you were simply the choirmaster.

Reportedly, some of them disappeared after being arrested for writing or singing national poems or songs.

But the number of arts participants, people who write poetry, who sing songs, who perform in church choirs, is exploding beyond our wildest imaginations.

Then in the same week, at a funeral, we sang the familiar hymn We Plow the Fields and Scatter, a very English hymn.

And about a week later, a friend of mine came to me and said, Listen, you've got to join choir.

And I went to my first day in choir, and I sat down with the basses and sort of looked over my shoulder to see what they were doing.

They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love.

In the Middle Ages, troubadours would travel across the land singing their tales and sharing their verses Lesbor travels through the Balkans like this, singing, connecting people divided by religion, nationality and language.

The choir people in my high school were pretty geeky, and there was no way I was going to have anything to do with those people.

And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0 that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing, Sleep, which is another work that I wrote in the year 2000 poetry by my dear friend Charles Anthony Silvestri.

Some cyclists sing hymns or recite nursery rhymes as a climbing aid.

What verses?

I decided to write a piece for choir a couple of years later as a gift to this conductor who had changed my life.