Boom-box Choir Soloist (recorded 'Ave Maria')

A professional, unnamed choir soloist whose recorded high-voiced rendition of Schubert's 'Ave Maria' plays from a boom box and catalyzes an intense emotional response in Joshua Lyman. The soloist operates as a diegetic, musical presence rather than an onstage interlocutor: her voice furnishes spiritual and aesthetic weight that reframes private crisis and underscores moral stakes. She remains anonymous within the staff's world, serving the narrative as evocative texture that propels character interiority without participating in dialogue or plot decisions.