Victor C wrote: ↑<span title="Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:30 am">5 years ago</span>
How would you describe Libera in one sentence?
In other words, what would be your answer to the question
"What is Libera?"
Many people describe Libera as a choir which isn't incorrect. However when hearing the word 'choir' people tend to think of traditional church choirs, and Libera is obviously
very different from those, or even the likes of WSK (Vienna Boys' Choir).
Well, define choir!
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For me, there is absolutely no reason not to call Libera a choir. No-one over here would automatically associate the word "choir" with traditional (or) church music. Actually the first question you hear when telling other people that you sing in a choir is: "What kind of choir, what music do you sing?" There are so many different, classical, chamber, church, gospel, jazz, Gregorian, mixed style etc. Here is a list of the choirs we have in Cologne alone:
http://www.choere.de/choere_in/ort_k/koeln/a_z.html
Choir is simply a singing music group, where the different voices have more than one singer each, and it says nothing about their style. So, Libera is correctly called a choir and I really love them to be one.
I agree, though, with a certain traditional association, when it comes to saying "boys choir", but on the other hand many of them have started to loosen a strictly traditional repertoire. It's right: When I tell someone about Libera I say that they are a boys choir and explain what their characteristics are. However, I think that, rather than searching a new "drawer" to put Libera in, we should give up our narrow image of what a "boys choir" may have to be like. They are special, they are unique, but they are still a boys choir or at least that's how I see it. I also have no problem to explain about them, as I don't think that you can explain them in one expression or sentence so that people not familiar with them can really picture by it alone what Libera is.
Definitely, I will always refuse to ever call them a "boy band", which had already been suggested here and there!
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I stick with Kavana, see
here at 0:40.