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Watch this 2,000-voice choir fill Massey Hall for a Prince tribute

By Luc Rinaldi
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Watch this 2,000-voice choir fill Massey Hall for a Prince tribute
(Image: Joseph Fuda)

Last Monday was like any Choir! Choir! Choir! session: anyone who wanted to sing showed up, spent a couple of hours learning their parts and recorded a video to end the night. Except, instead of 200 people in the back room at Clinton’s, there were 2,000 choristers filling the seats of Massey Hall. Like they did with “Space Oddity” after David Bowie’s death, choir leaders Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman led the crowd through a three-part arrangement of Prince’s “When Doves Cry.” Watch the haunting result below.

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