Chapel Hill

Rosslyn Chapel,

Chapter 7. The Chapel.

Choir Aahs

The Sistine Chapel is a vast chapel built inside the Vatican Palace in 1473.

Pad 4 Choir

celestial choir man snores

phone rings celestial choir

It wasn't a virtual choir.

Listen, you've got to join choir.

All right, what's Virtual Choir 2.0?

This is Sleep, the Virtual Choir.

I call that the hidden choir.

Like the voice of a heavenly choir

Like the voice Of a heavenly choir

And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.

We also have a gift shop and a wedding chapel.

This is Lux Aurumque sung by the Virtual Choir.

Let's try it again. (Music) Oh, the TED choir.

I'm Richard Carter, and this is the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

And then just last spring we released Virtual Choir 3,

I had an idea it was The Mormon Tabernacle Choir...

I feel a closeness to this choir almost like a family.

I also became a part of a choir using sign language.

Northern Ireland, Catholic, Protestant, children's choir and ended with Bono in Dublin

He earned enough money to buy a burial chapel and decorate it with a pretty painting.

Uh, no, I'm sorry, she's in chapel just now. She will be out in a minute.

She has been invited to sing in a choir in a foreign country.

In its essence, the orchestra and the choir are much more than artistic structures.

In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir.

It wasn't a bad debut for the TED choir, not a bad debut at all.

And once again, in Edinburgh with the wonderful African Children's Choir who I simply adore.

Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change,

Virtual Choir we will be singing Sleep a piece that I wrote in the year 2000.

I was very lucky, I discovered my talent in primary school when a local choir recruited me.

(Music) And we released to YouTube this, the Virtual Choir Project, 185 singers from 12 different countries.

And here we are once again in the recreation of the Sistine Chapel, on Vassar's campus, and we're going to talk this time not about the ceiling, but about the fresco that Michelangelo painted on the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel, about 25 years later,

What I'd like to close with then today is the first look at Sleep by Virtual Choir 2.0.

The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.

And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0 that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing,

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

One father, who had initially balked at his daughter coming out in such a choir, now writes songs for them.

Virtual Choir 2, 2,052 singers from 58 different countries, this time performing a piece that I had written called Sleep.

So Richard came up from Houston last year to visit us in Detroit here and show the wonderful Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

The very first Virtual Choir was Sleep, but that was really just a test to see if the concept would work.