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Tue 04 Apr 2007The sound of musicTeen Times/Ciaran O'Rourke:Our silence was brimming with an eager kind of intensity as we waited for Mr Potts to lower his hands. I could feel the flutter of excitement in my heartbeat and knew that around me, the rest of the choir felt the same.And I knew that, like mine, their eyes were unblinking and tight with concentration, willing our choirmaster, our principal, to unleash the sound.