The Lake Chapala Orchestra is sustained by devotion

The Lake Chapala Orchestra is sustained by devotion

They say music has a way of rearranging a room. I used to think that was just a poetic way to talk about acoustics; how a violin’s tremolo slips into the corners, or how a timpani rolls and the walls seem to breathe with it.  I’ve come to learn, though, that rearrangement is something social as well as sonic. It’s how shared attention can change how strangers hold themselves in a place. The modern orchestra of Lake Chapala is close to 60 players…