Ten or 15 years ago, my wife and I wanted to create something similar, so we began having singing parties. We'd invite 40 or 50 people... I'd say, 'Come on anyway-maybe you'll discover something about yourself.' I'd invite people from vastly different perspectives—from the Hill, from academia—and just start singing, often straight through to midnight.
The thing I love most is that, after a while, you realize you've got a real choir. There are stronger and weaker singers, but together, it's quite an instrument.
So you'll get to a song that has a really good chorus, and I'll make the instruments stop so it's just a cappella, and something just happens: People's faces light up with 'Look what we're creating here.'
There was a moment like that where I looked over and saw a very conservative news commentator standing next to a very progressive scientist, a Nobel Prize winner—and the joyfulness in both of their faces, with arms around each other.
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