“THE danger of aerosol transmission of coronavirus was understood from the earliest days of the pandemic, but the loss of the opportunity to meet together and sing for the members of the nation’s amateur choirs was a consequence that governments north and south of the border have been cruelly slow to acknowledge.

Fortunately, new technology has made it possible for choirs to maintain contact even if live performances together for audiences were forbidden, and chorusmasters and singers have shown themselves hugely adaptable to the present circumstances. Few, however, have attempted anything on the scale of this effort of Bearsden Choir and musical director Andrew Nunn.”