A decision on the stone chorus should be judged by what happens at the public chorus steps in the Hall of Echoes. The docket is at step 10 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: The docket has returned for review with the exceptions and unresolved objections attached. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
47 ward groups represented at open rehearsals were entered this cycle, compared with 50 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is whether the city can preserve a shared chorus while allowing each ward to keep its own verses.
The music steward wants one agreed version for the annual ceremony; singers say variants are part of the record, not errors. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
Ava Korr checked the hall’s rehearsal schedule and the chorus’s shared verse book against the field notes. The method is to note who made a record, who preserved it and who can still consult it; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The practical evidence is a low ledge where singers can hear the second return of the hall’s echo; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The next rehearsal will mark shared lines and ward-specific verses separately. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
