When the Chorus sang its Olé Olé Olé concert back in March, our smaller ensemble OutLoud! performed what I think was one of the most depressing songs I have ever heard in my life. It was called “La Llarona” (“The Weeping Woman”) and it was based on an old Mexican legend about a woman who drowned her children in order to win the heart of a man she loved. Even then he still rejected her, and she was so distraught with grief that she killed herself. She got to heaven and was asked where her children were, and she just said she didn’t know. So they won’t let her into heaven until she finds her kids. One of the …

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