>> Certainly, personality is part of it.
How well you can relate to an ensemble.
There are more choirs, per capita, in Washington DC than almost any other city.
I think, the Bay Area and the Twin Cities might be a little bit higher up on the list,
but we have so many choirs, and so anybody who wants to sing can find a conductor they like.
Part of is programming personality, the kind of music that you choose.
There are all kinds of different choirs.
I happen to conduct a couple of men's choirs, which is a smaller subset of the choral world.
In DC, we have a lot of symphonic choirs that perform
with orchestras like the National Symphony.
So they do major works like Brahms Requiem or Handel's Messiah.
If you want to join a large community of like-minded people, you've moved here.
You don't know anybody, you're doing an internship or working on The Hill,
joining one of the dig choral societies is an excellent way to gain yourself 180
or 200 new, close, personal contacts.
And so there's that' aspect of it, as well.