Choir Practice Makes Perfect

You could hear a pin drop as more than 50,000 people at Beijing’s National Stadium awaited with bated breath this very moment: the Olympic Anthem—Greek edition—sung by 44 Chinese children.

Most of the kids, aged 6 to 12, had no previous experience performing on stage, let alone live, and had first learned about the score some four months earlier. After more than 110 days of absorbing the music and learning the Greek lyrics from zero, the songsters made their way onto the stage of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.

All young performers hailed from the Malanhua Children’s Choir of Fuping