What Happens After the Premiere?

Don Lee | Composing/Commissioning, Performance, Repertoire

To commission and premiere a new piece of music can garner a chorus and a composer media attention, industry recognition, and a concert hall full of audience members. We explore the strategies that choruses have employed to keep their programming fresh and their commissioned works evergreen. Read more

The Power of "With"

Ann Meier Baker | Civic Engagement, Diversity, Performance, Singing

Choruses bring diverse people together to make beautiful music and offer us a much-needed antidote to the "i" epidemic. Read more

From Score to Seat

A Composer and Her Audience

Gabriela Lena Frank | Audiences, Composing/Commissioning, Diversity, Families, Innovation, Profile

Composer Gabriela Lena Frank explores the evolving relationship with her audience, beginning with her doting parents. Read more

Rach On! Performing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil

Grant Gershon | Performance, Repertoire, Singing, Technique/Tool

An a cappella masterpiece of staggering beauty and power, Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (or Vespers) presents many challenges for the choral singer. Grant Gershon, music director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, chose the piece to open his 10th Anniversary season with LAMC. We talked with him about the work and how he prepared his singers to perform it. Read more

The Vocal Chamber Music of Hans Gal

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Performance, Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing

American Choral Review 52.1 Read more

Robert Schumann's A Cappella Choral Works

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Performance, Repertoire, Research/Data

American Choral Review 51.2 Read more

Choral Music from Jewish Tradition: Music You Should Know and How to Perform it Well

Joshua Jacobson | Composing/Commissioning, Diversity, Repertoire

A comprehensive repertoire list prepared by Joshua Jacobson. Read more

Healey Willan's Missa Brevis Settings for St. Mary Magdalene

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data

American Choral Review 51.1 Read more

Spirit / Breath / Voice

5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL

Matt Greenberg |

  Please join the nine singers of Chicago a cappella for Spirit/Breath/Voice, an inspiring program celebrating generosity, compassion, peace, and joy.The acclaimed vocal ensemble’s new concert includes a joyous Renaissance mass, uplifting Shaker tunes, and the Midwest premiere of Gwyneth Walker’s Songs of Ecstasy.This concert will be musically directed by William Chin, the accomplished assistant director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Don’t miss this deeply moving and blissful musical experience! Read more

Two CDs Released by Boston’s Coro Allegro

kipjld1964 |

Coro Allegro, a classical SATB ensemble composed of members and friends of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, extends its commitment to contemporary choral works with the release of two CDs under the Navona label. Awakenings features two extraordinary works by Massachusetts composers: “Shofar” by Robert Stern, an intensely dramatic recounting of the Biblical story of Moses and the Israelites premiered by Coro, with libretto by Catherine Madsen; and “Why I Wake Early” by Ronald Perera, a suite of eight evocative songs with text drawn from poems by Mary Oliver. Says The New York Times: "Ms. Oliver's poetry...reveals an awestruck regard of nature that verges on the religious...Enhanced by Mr. Perera's estimable knack for setting English, this is a substantial addition to the choral canon.” In Paradisum features live performances of two Coro-commissioned works by acclaimed composer Patricia Van Ness: “Requiem,” a personal, intimate ritual of consolation reinforcing the presence of divine love; and “The Voice of the Tenth Muse,” an expansively spiritual work based on the texts of Sappho. Featured soloists include Sanford Sylvan and Ruth Cunningham. Both CDs are available for purchase at www.coroallegro.org/cds Read more

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir - Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle - Concert and webcast

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Mendels... | Audiences, General, Performance, Singing

Brighten up a winter afternoon with this graceful and lyrical work. The TMC last performed this great work in 1982.  Noel Edison, conductor; James Bourne, piano;
Andrew Adair, organ;
Lesley Bouza, soprano;
Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo soprano;
Charles Davidson, tenor;
Michael York, baritone. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St, Toronto. One block north of St. Clair subway station.    Tickets: $42-$65; seniors $37-$60; VoxTix (under 30) $20.    http://www.tmchoir.org/tmcPerformances/petite-messe-solennelle.cfm   Podcast: http://www.tmchoir.org/downloads/audio/podcast_Rossini.mp3   Program Notes: http://www.tmchoir.org/downloads/programNotes_RossiniPetiteMesse.pdf   This concert will also be webcast live on the TMC website at 3pm (UTC -5). The webcast will be Adobe Flash and iPhone and iPad compatible.   Read more

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir - Choral Conductors Symposium Concert and Webcast

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Mendels... | Audiences, Conducting, Families, Performance, Singing

    A free Toronto Mendelssohn Choir concert. Enjoy a potpourri of great choral works performed by the Mendelssohn Singers and by the 20-voice Elora Festival Singers. This concert concludes the TMC’s 3rd annual Choral Conductors’ Symposium for emerging conductors, led by Noel Edison. The five conductors participating in the Symposium will conduct: Xavier Brossard-Ménard, Catherine Klopoushak, Brett Kostrzewski, Jennifer Min-Young Lee and Kemuel Wong. <a href="http://www.tmchoir.org/tmcPerformances/conductors-symposium-concert.cfm">Find out more about the concert</a>. If you can’t be at the concert, you can watch a live webcast at 3 pm (UTC -5) on the TMC website. The webcast will be Adobe Flash and iPhone and iPad compatible. <a href="http://www.tmchoir.org/tmcPerformances/webcast-register.cfm">Sign up to watch the webcast</a> .   Read more