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Glenn Mohr Chorale
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The Glenn Mohr Chorale As far as Glenn Mohr is concerned, it all started with a blessing from the Pope. In 1989, the New York-based choir director, musician and songwriter brought his choral group to the Vatican to perform. Although Mohr had left the choir’s church following disagreements with its new leadership, his singers urged him to help fulfill their dream of appearing live in Rome. They became the Bellmore Catholic Chorale and sang at St. Peter’s Basilica – and then for the Pontiff at the Papal residence. “It was magical,” Mohr recalls. “I’d met John Paul II that morning; I told him we’d be singing for him, and that I was a church organist in Brooklyn. He said, ‘Ah, Brooklyn – I love Brooklyn!’ He sounded like Count Dracula! But he was so charming. So we performed a short piece as his ‘opening act’ in front of 15,000 people and His Holiness; the crowd just exploded, and he was waving at us. Afterward, he saw us at a barricade, came over and said, ‘What a beautiful choir this is, and what a wonderful song.’ After that, we all looked at each other and said, ‘How can we stop now?’” Twenty years, countless performances and several recordings later, the Glenn Mohr Chorale has become a mainstay of modern inspirational music. Its dedicated core of performers – at the urging of their creatively adventurous director – always zero in on the human heart of religious tradition, augmenting their celestial harmonies with searching dramatic interludes, poetry, dance
