Question for singers out there. I'm in a secular choir. I'm used to works being cut to make works suitable length or easy enough for particular choirs (eg movements in the Messiah) I have sung a mass setting omitting one part. This time the choir has decided to cut out not the whole creed, but only part of it. I'm definitely carrying on and understand the need to cut but feel would have been better to cut whole of the creed evwn if the concert was short. I think the decision was easier as not singing in English so people not bothered as much. I feel that the creed tells a story so singing about birth of Jesus but missing out death and resurrection strange, I think this might be my overreacting as I am a practicing Christian. After all it is beautiful and we are secular choir.
Do you think that singing part of a work where that changes the story is a problem?