Race/Related: A Harlem Choir Returns

For many, church music was a source of strength during the pandemic. Re-establishing that lifeline became a top church priority. 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The original article features music, giving you the opportunity to hear a choir in Harlem.] At Bethel Gospel Assembly, a Pentecostal church in Harlem, Sundays once typically began with handshakes, hugs and kisses. The pastor welcomed parishioners from the pulpit to the 2,000-seat sanctuary — his greeting simultaneously relayed in French, Spanish and Italian by translators to accommodate the mostly European tourists who crowded into the church’s balcony to hear the choirs sing. In Harlem, a neighborhood with hundreds of churches — one of which, Elmendorf Reformed Church, dates back to 1660 — choirs aren’t relegated to backing up the pastor. They are a primary attraction for church members and tourists alike. Many of the local gospel choirs are well-known internationally — the topic of must-see travel lists — and before the pandemic they drew hundreds of visitors each week. That changed the week of March 20, 2020, as pandemic closures went into effect and church leaders including Bishop Carlton T. Brown, Bethel’s senior pastor, told congregants that church doors were closing. Until further notice, services would be streamed online. Which also meant the choirs could no longer gather in person to sing. “Some would say that, in the United States, you can never shut the church down, the church will always be open here,” Bishop Brown said. “Then all of a sudden we came to a place where the church had to shut down.” [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-0) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRigi76P0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTc0MTQ5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIxMDUxNVcDbnl0QgpgnPqpn2AgRlhbUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ As services moved online, Harlem churches tried different approaches to including music. Some streamed soloists singing from home; others asked choir members to record themselves singing, then combined those videos to play during services. At Bethel, the church invested in streaming services and saw an increase in online attendance for Sunday and midweek services, with people searching for community during difficult times. The church’s online Bible studies have gone from 20 to 30 students to well over 75 in each class. Other churches saw similar increased attendance to virtual gatherings. But many church members spoke of missing hearing the live music, which is so central to the worship service. Dianette Hicks performed during a Sunday service at Bethel.Hannah Price for The New York Times For choirs, singing online was technically challenging; the experience felt disjointed and the results were often disappointing. For churchgoers, watching services from home was lonely. They were grateful for the connection but it wasn’t what it once was. They longed to pray and sing together and they missed the shared experience of worshiping — in particular, the experience of hearing their church choirs. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-1) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRigi76P0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MjA3NTc3JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIxMDUxNVcDbnl0QgpgnPqpn2AgRlhbUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ “I remember feeling so awkward not being in the house of God and not actually being able to sing on this pulpit,” said Warren S.L. Hicks, a choir worship leader who has been singing at Bethel since he was a boy. “It was almost like air being sucked out of my lungs.” Leaders at these Black churches said that cutting music out of services entirely was never an option. “You can’t have worship completely without music in the Black church,” said Rev. Calvin Otis Butts III of [the Abyssinian Baptist Church](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRigi76P0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS8wMy8xMC9ueXJlZ2lvbi9oYXJsZW0tY2h1cmNoLXZhY2NpbmUuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIxMDUxNSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0zMDg5NSZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTgxNjkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmCc-qmfYCBGWFtSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) on 138th Street. “It’s impossible. The Black church is culture bearer, so if you want to have the best of poetry, the best of music, the best of our cultural expressions, you come to the church.” During the pandemic, being separated from other church members created a sense of loneliness for congregants and choir members. No number of Zoom and FaceTime calls, Facebook Bible studies and streamed Sunday services could make up for not being able to hug someone in person, read a passage from Scripture in unison, hold hands and come together to sing and worship. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-2) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRigi76P0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIxMDUxNVcDbnl0QgpgnPqpn2AgRlhbUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ For many, church music became a source of strength and a lifeline. Re-establishing that lifeline became a top church priority. Church leaders in majority Black and Latino Harlem were aware that their community was being affected disproportionately by Covid-19, so they were especially sensitive about the risks of bringing people together again. At Canaan Baptist Church of Christ on 116th Street, more than 40 members of the congregation, including some choir members, died from Covid in 2020. But church leaders also found that, during a time of fear and uncertainty, churchgoers felt cut off from a source of strength they needed: their community of faith. Not being able to gather and sing together — at funerals, in particular — made the distance from one another feel vast. So they looked for ways to bring live music back. Members of the church’s dance ministry on a Sunday at Canaan Baptist Church.Hannah Price for The New York Times At the onset of the pandemic, Abyssinian Baptist Church, founded in 1808, began streaming virtual services, and Ramón Bryant Braxton, the director of music, asked soloists to come sing alone, accompanied by musicians, in the empty sanctuary. By late April 2020, Mr. Braxton had another idea: He assembled additional groups of singers, including a quartet and an ensemble of nine. The groups would sing while socially distanced in the empty church on alternating Sundays. “At one point, we rehearsed in the sanctuary and lined the balcony with the big group of nine spread out,” Mr. Braxton said. “But the challenge was that, because everyone was so far apart, they had to work twice as hard to hear each other. To create the sense of ensemble you can’t be in a vacuum.” B. Dexter Allgood, the minister of music at Canaan Baptist, said that his church typically had seven different choirs consisting of dozens of singers and that, on any given Sunday before the pandemic, as many as 100 people would sing. “You have the Word and then you have the Word in song — there’s a connection there, and when it’s not there it feels like a void,” Mr. Allgood said, adding that he doesn’t think that before the pandemic he’d ever spent a single Sunday in his adult life away from a sanctuary. After trying various methods of keeping music in the service virtually, Mr. Allgood pulled together a group of eight singers to come sing live from the church. Some of them stood socially distanced on the stage, while others would sing while arranged among the empty pews. Reuniting to sing together, even while distanced, allowed choir members to once again feel a sense of community. “You think people get together because we all like to sing? Not necessarily,” said Frederick Myers, a singer at Canaan who also sings professionally. “They get together because they need somebody to talk to. It’s more counseling sometimes. You have an outlet and, once you have that person in the choir that you can talk to, you can sing because there’s somebody there who cares about what happened to you today.” Read the rest of the story [here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRigi76P0TvaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS8wNS8xMi9ueXJlZ2lvbi9oYXJsZW0tZ29zcGVsLWNodXJjaC1jaG9pci5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjEwNTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTMwODk1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01ODE2OSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYJz6qZ9gIEZYW1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). EDITOR’S PICKS We publish many articles that touch on race. Here are several you shouldn’t miss. [[Article Image] Photograph by Philip-Daniel Ducasse. 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