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jumped in feet first. In the elementary
school orchestra, he played the cello.
In junior high, he joined band and
began learning the trombone.
"Learning to play a stringed
instrument just sort of developed me
into being a singer," he noted.
Most of what Britt played would be
for church – sacred music – and he
could sight read the music right out
of the hymnal.
Cumberland Oratorio Singers
An oratorio, generally a religious
musical work, is very similar to an
opera, only it's not staged, there are
no costumes and there is no scenery.
Oratorios have always been the
heart of COS, especially when it was
started by Alan Porter 25 years ago.
Porter, who used to be an associate
professor of music at Methodist,
took a sabbatical to Austria in 1991
to study the work of Mozart. It was
the bicentennial of the composer's
death and numerous concerts
and lectures were held, centering
around his pieces. One focused on
Mozart's "Requiem," the piece the
composer was working on when
he died. Luckily, Mozart had given
instructions to one of his students
on how to finish the last third of the
piece; otherwise, we may not have
been graced with that work in its
entirety.
Upon arriving home in the
fall of 1991, Porter returned to
Methodist and had the school's
choir begin working on "Requiem."
Britt, a student at Methodist, was
in this choir and remembers the
performance that was given for the
community. People were in awe, he
said. ey asked, "Why can't we have
a choir that does this all of the time?"
Cumberland Oratorio Singers was
born.
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