The first stone chorus notice began with the hall’s rehearsal schedule and the chorus’s shared verse book. Since then, the city has moved through a source check, a public hearing and a trial at the public chorus steps in the Hall of Echoes.
The current docket records 44 ward groups represented at open rehearsals; the earlier file recorded 44. The count is more specific than the first summary, but still does not answer whether the city can preserve a shared chorus while allowing each ward to keep its own verses.
A key point in the timeline was the discovery of a low ledge where singers can hear the second return of the hall’s echo. It narrowed the dispute from a general claim about the rule to a question about how the rule behaves at the site.
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 parties now share more of the record than they did at the start, though they assign it different weight.
The responsible office has offered a limited remedy with an end date for review. The entry belongs to the open-book review file at the public chorus steps in the Hall of Echoes. The next rehearsal will mark shared lines and ward-specific verses separately. The next review will show whether the change lasts beyond this docket or returns as another temporary exception.
