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Article: FOR A SONG COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS MEMBERS SING FOR LOVE, NOT MONEY .(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 16, 1999
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Byline: Marc Shulgold News Music / Dance Writer
In an enormous rehearsal room at Trinity Church downtown, Mary Louise Burke and the 200-voice Colorado Symphony Orchestra Chorus began their weekly evening practice session with a few old favorites.
``Zee-zoo-zee-zoo-zee,'' they sang in unison. Then the ditty was converted into a little round, started by the sopranos and sent across the room toward the basses. Followed, of course, by the ever-popular ``nay-no-nay-no.'' Burke, the group's assistant director, next led her singers in a cheery, five-note up-and-down scale whose lyrics consisted of ``singggggggg-ahhhhh.''
For the past 15 years, the CSO ...