may I add that architecture plays an important role in the mediation between the listener and the music sung by a group. It is the architecture that acts as the mediation for the experience of the power and beauty. If you sung in a cardboard box would it be the same as singing in a cathedral with vaulted ceilings. Let us not forget that it is the architecture in fact, for which choral music is written for, an unwritten part that cannot be placed on paper; rather, its part is heard when performed in its space, taking the listener to another level.

(this is written as a response to a quote on calvin's blog)