She and I met, long ago, in a group singing Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, and Purcell. The performance on stage is clean and in tune. But it lacks passion. Of course it does. Youth itself lacks passion.
Passion is still hypothetical.
These singers have so much to learn. The Latin mass is still an antiquarian exercise. Now they do a piece by the fine German choral composer Hugo Distler. Distler wrote during Hitler's rise. He was anti-Nazi, and he suffered for it.