the harmony. You can just cry sometimes, it’s so pretty,” he says.Gerard’s husband, Craig Arnold, also joined the chorus in its first year, equally drawn by the bonds that quickly formed among members. “It really felt like a family,” Arnold says. “And we formed friendships in the chorus that have lasted over the years.”Friendships that have lasted — as well as deepened and evolved — just like that between Gerard and Arnold, who met in the chorus. “We were just friends back then,” says Arnold. “Jack had a boyfriend at the time.
I had several.” They stayed in touch even after each retired from singing with the chorus, for different reasons, after six or seven years. “Jack and I would run into each other every now and then, not just at chorus.