The May Festival Chorus draws its singers from three different states and 92 different zip codes — a genuinely wide cross-section of a region that is deeply politically purple, not red or blue. Rather than treating that diversity of belief as something to work around, Matthew talked about it as part of the point…

…Lolly’s conclusion: music was never meant to be a thing we buy. It’s a thing we do. And the experience of doing it — together, in a room, for however many minutes or hours that will never come back — doesn’t lose value because it doesn’t last…