Evening Standard - London, April 26th, 2002
THE members of the Crouch End Festival Chorus rush in from jammaking, gardening, surgeries, quartet playing; from challenging jobs and boring ones. Lenny Fagin, first bass, head of mental health in Walthamstow, says, "Singing is the exact opposite of what I normally do." Geoff Kemball-Cook, a research scientist and onetime church choirboy "went to a concert and thought, if it's this good in the audience, it must be even better being on stage". Betty Rosen, a retired teacher, auditioned without hope. "I thought, they won't want me, they'll want some 20-year-old." But she earned a place in the...
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