What is a speech choir?

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It has been my desire for some time to have a speech choir. There is much power in the spoken word! This is not a new idea. The ancient Greeks used choral speaking with enormous impact and effect! The words are not sung. A speech choir is a powerful art that is experiencing a revival. There is tremendous satisfaction that comes from learning to speak well, and even a greater enjoyment that comes from speaking elegantly and powerfully as a group. The abilities and techniques you will learn as a member of a speech choir will become an asset in your social life. Your words become better, understood, richer, and more significant than daily speech. In the book 'CHORAL SPEAKING AND THE VERSE CHOIR,' Kingsley Povenmers offers this definition of the choir itself: "A verse choir is a group of people experiencing together, expressing thoughts and feelings lovely and freely for the purpose of communicating with each other and an audience being led by a director and adapting themselves to the disciplines of the art of group oral interpretation."