Mollie Stone
Timothy DeWerff
Diana Solomon-Glover
Helen H. Cha-Pyo
Jeffrey Douma, moderator

In our increasingly globalized world, more and more choral musicians are taking their art form out of the rehearsal and concert hall and into the real world, harnessing choral music’s unique power to address a variety of challenges facing modern society, such as poverty, homelessness, the preventable spread of infectious disease, or a lack of access to education, to name but a few.  The present discussion examined several such initiatives, reflecting not only on their successes, but also on the financial, logistical, and cultural pitfalls these initiatives may encounter.