Timothy DeWerff’s Louder Yet the Chorus Raise! is a book for people who still believe a room full of ordinary voices can become an event. Dr. Baker sits with him to talk about the lineage of communal singing, the temptation to professionalize every downbeat, and the quiet stubbornness of a congregation that knows its tunes.
The chorus is not a museum. It is a present-tense argument that we still belong to one another.
Conversation overview
We discuss how a book about song can serve a working conductor, what “louder” does not mean, and how Foundation choirs keep faith with older texts without embalming them.
