Forty-one percent of community-choir members hum the second verse, and Futures in Committee now drops any verse above the cohort median from the concert night.
A survey of 214 community-choir members now governs the concert programme
Forty-one percent of community-choir members hum the second verse. That share, reported as a distribution across eighteen suburban choirs, is now the cut that decides what is sung.
The School of Emergent Priorities releases a research poster today by Dr Anneke Tolan, Dr Ronja Oyelaran and Tove Ilesanmi. Verse-knowledge cards from 214 members over fourteen weeks place the second verse’s hummed share at a median of 41 percent and the third at 63 percent, both above the cohort median. Futures in Committee now drops any such verse from the concert programme, with no exception, and affiliated choirs in the community-partnership round inherit the cut.
The School reads the distributions as a programming standard it can keep.
A verse the room will not sing is already a decision. Writing it down is the smaller part.
— Dr Anneke Tolan, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Convenor, Futures in Committee
Dr Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer in the School, said the cards asked only whether a member would sing the verse. “The programme is what followed from that answer.”
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.ufu3cl.