How Deep Is Your Love

On May 29, 2026, in the warm sanctuary of Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, the Gay Men's Chorus of Tampa Bay turned to one of the silver screen's most enduring slow dances. As part of "Love in Technicolor," the chorus offered Rune Ulset Furberg's SATB arrangement of "How Deep Is Your Love," the Bee Gees ballad written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb for Saturday Night Fever. Soloist Will Hession carried the melody.

Furberg's setting honors the original's gauzy, falsetto-lit intimacy while opening it into full chorus, trading the brothers' close three-part harmony for layered choral voicing. Suspended chords bloom and resolve, and the arrangement leans on sustained inner lines that let the famous hook drift rather than punch.

Hession sang with an unhurried, conversational ease, floating the verses in a light upper register before the choir gathered beneath him. The ensemble's blend was notably even, basses anchoring without weight, the tenor and baritone sections trading phrases with clean diction. Dynamic shaping stayed gentle, swelling only into the chorus.

The church's generous acoustics flattered the softest passages, letting held vowels ring and decay naturally as the hall returned a halo of reverberation around each cadence. Audience members swayed in recognition from the first piano figure, and a hush settled over the room before warm, sustained applause rose at the final chord.

Within "Let's Go to the Movies!," the song landed as a tender breath between brighter, splashier numbers, a reminder that the most cinematic love is often the quietest. For a chorus built on chosen family and visibility, the question at the heart of the lyric felt less like romance alone and more like a pledge among friends, sung in the round and meant.