Interesting...and sad, isn't it? My choir has to pay for a space to rehearse and pay for concert space and pay for a pianist and pay for a director. I would like to rehearse in my living room and sing on street corners, and find a director and accompanists who just love to play. Today I was downtown and there were young black men jamming on pickle barrels turned into drumsets on a street corner. They sounded GREAT and everybody on that block was groovin' on their beats. THAT is the kind of music I would like to participate in.