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Rock Choir is described as being the United Kingdom's original, and the world's largest, contemporary choir.〔(Amazing Rock Choir Facts, Official ITV website ), accessed 19 July 2012〕 It holds three Guinness World Records – 'biggest hit act in the UK',〔(Guinness World Records website ), accessed 19 July 2012〕 'largest musical act to release an album (signed)'〔(Guinness World Records website ), accessed 19 July 2012〕 and 'largest song and dance routine held at multiple locations'.〔Nurse, Jon ''Get Wokingham'' ('Rock Choir Join Forces in World Record Attempt' ) 28 June 2012〕〔Unk. ''The Scotsman'' ('Choir Rocks the Capital' ) 17 July 2012〕 Rock Choir offers teenagers and adults the chance to sing pop, Motown, gospel and chart songs without the need to audition, read music or have any previous singing experience.〔Unk. ''Get Hampshire'' ('Rock Choir plays hometown shows' ) 27 June 2012〕 On 16 July 2010 the Daily Mail called it "Britain's biggest choral movement."〔Boase, Tessa ''The Daily Mail'' ('Move over, Glee! It started as a bit of fun, now Rock Choir could be set to open the 2012 Olympics' ) 16 July 2010〕 In November 2014 it had more than 16,000 members rehearsing in 300 locations throughout the UK.〔Jones-Berry, Stephanie ''Get Surrey'' ('Rock Choir 'flash mob' raises Sport Relief cash' ) 27 March 2012〕 In August 2011, (Coutts Woman Magazine ) described Rock Choir as "a community singing phenomenon that is sweeping the country," and "one of Britain's biggest brands."〔Walshe, Barbara ''Coutts Woman Magazine'' ('Caroline Redman Lusher - Rock Star' ) accessed 19 July 2012〕 ==History== Rock Choir was established in 2005 by musician and singer Caroline Redman Lusher.〔 The Sunday Times Culture magazine said 'its formula is unique. Learning by rote (repetition, not sheet music), amateurs rehearse harmonies and choreographed movements to those hits that everybody knows and impulsively sings along to'.〔Boase, Tessa 'Singing is Believing' ''The Sunday Times Culture Magazine,'' 22 March 2009〕 Redman Lusher first came up with the concept in the 1990s, while teaching music and performing arts at Farnborough 6th Form College, Hampshire. To help students pass their singing modules, she introduced weekly group singing sessions in which she taught three-part harmonies to well-liked songs. It became so popular that she decided to offer the concept to the general public.〔 In 2005, Redman Lusher placed an advertisement for Rock Choir in a coffee shop in Farnham, Surrey, which initially attracted the first 70 members. Redman Lusher said: ‘I started saving my salary as a teacher and handed in my notice. My mother had come up with the name over a cup of tea and a friend's son designed the logo for me to put on the posters! By July I had left my job and also borrowed £1,000 from my father David to buy a portable piano, P.A. and head mic. We hired a local hall and put out 40 chairs. 70 people walked in. Some told me they’d been stopped from singing in the school choir many years ago, or their husbands or children would tease them and wouldn’t let them sing in the house'.〔Cable, Amanda ''The Mail Online'' ('The choir that saved our lives: For its 8,000 members, Rock Choir is about more than just singing' ) 10 June 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rock Choir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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