Even if you didn’t attend Part 1, join us for Part 2, and continue to explore the ways that music, specifically choral music, has been composed and used to build a variety of communities—that of the composer within his/her creative cohort; of the performers; of audiences; and of scholars and commentators, past, present, and future. We will focus especially on the concept of “community” in the framework of the arts, and how community is built by artists. We will consider six such artists, living in the ages of “Enlightenment and Brotherhood” (18th and early 19th centuries), and “Romanticism” (later 19th century): Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. Their use of the choir had some things in common, but also interesting differences resulting from their individual artistic, narrative, and expressive intentions.