Start with the hall’s rehearsal schedule and the chorus’s shared verse book. It is the source used to make a decision about whether the city can preserve a shared chorus while allowing each ward to keep its own verses; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the public chorus steps in the Hall of Echoes.
The latest count is 64 ward groups represented at open rehearsals; the prior file listed 68. A second set of hands has checked the count and recorded where the methods differ. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: The music steward wants one agreed version for the annual ceremony; singers say variants are part of the record, not errors. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a low ledge where singers can hear the second return of the hall’s echo.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. 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.
Next: The next rehearsal will mark shared lines and ward-specific verses separately. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
