Simple lives of each of us, singers, conductors, fans, audience… during past decades, in our personal corners of the globe should be the written word! This is the World Youth Choir after two decades! Our dreams, hard work, constant believe, artistic professionalism and enormous enthusiasm for remarkable idea. We and our lives before the dream, and now, when we are still dreaming! For 20 years the World Youth Choir has been the meeting point for young singers from around the world. More than 1000 individuals have taken part and left an indelible mark on the ensemble, imbuing it with their unique talent, personality, creativity, warmth and humour. From October 18-25, 2009, for the first time in the history of the ensemble, over 200 former singers, conductors and organizers throughout the globe were reunited in order to celebrate the choir’s birthday! Anniversary celebration; simple in its greatness, as a best human present to the World Youth Choir! “Happy birthday, World Youth Choir”, it was said so many times! “Happy birthday to YOU all” people were saying to each other! One simple sentence, so innocent and thousands of existential memories for all of us! And then, singing, laughing, moments of choirs history visible on almost yellowish pictures taken during late 80’es, singers walking with their families, little children running around, people hugging…remember this, remember that…conductors stories, emotional moments while explaining the quality of a performance 1989, 2000, 1999…concert uniforms, remember him….remember her…and so on for 10 days and nights. World choral beehive! This is how the celebration gathering started, thanks to the collaboration of the International Center of Choral Music and Swedish International Choral Center, Orebro, the organizers of the Anniversary celebration together with the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) andEuropa Cantat (EC), World Youth Choir patron organizations. All organizations were proud to present a week of celebrations in Sweden, first host country of the World Youth Choir. On the stage of social, intercultural, and above all, friend’s reunion, the 20 Anniversary Celebration of the World Youth Choir was musical universe at concerts of the: th
WYC - About 20th Anniversary
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