A FEW MONTHS ago Emilia Olsson, a social worker in Sweden, received an email from her amateur choir informing her that, because of covid-19, there would be no rehearsals for a couple of weeks. Then they were cancelled until the summer. She missed the music-making, Ms Olsson says, but especially the sense of community, which had prompted her to join the choir in the first place. A quintessentially social art form, choral singing has been devastated by the pandemic. Suddenly, groups of people exhaling together in close proximity seem dangerous. According to Sonja Greiner of the European Choral Association-Europa Cantat (ECA-EC), an umbrella group for choirs, rumours of super-spreading at rehearsals were unfounded. In any event, they were suspended en masse, along with concerts and church services.
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机译：几个月前，瑞典的社会工作者艾米利亚奥尔斯森收到了她的业余合唱团的电子邮件，告知她，因为Covid-19，几周没有排练。然后他们被取消到夏天。她错过了音乐制作，奥尔斯森女士说，但特别是社区感，这促使她首先加入合唱团。一个典型的社会艺术形式，有意义的合唱歌曲被大流行摧毁了。突然间，一群人在靠近近距离呼气似乎很危险。据欧洲合唱协会 - Europa Cantat（ECA-EC）的Sonja Greiner称，一团合唱团的伞形集团，Rumbers在排练的超级蔓延的谣言被毫无根据。在任何情况下，他们都被暂停了，以及音乐会和教堂服务。
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