TAPESTRIES, AND TEMPLE-TO-TANGO TRANSITIONS
PALO ALTO, CA—A touring chorus and a homeless orchestra combined for a highly innovative holiday program that, I hope, will inspire others to broaden out beyond humdrum traditional-standards-and-sing-alongs Christmas formats. What you had to like about the Choral Project is that it’s not one of the elite choruses vocally. Nonetheless it assembles stunning programs with varied forces leaving crowds talking animatedly well after the First United Methodist Church concert. High point was what you might call a new “United-Nations cantata,”…