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Masterclass in Motion: The Making of a Choral-Orchestral Conductor

Masterclass in Motion: The Making of a Choral-Orchestral Conductor

Matthew Sigman | Conducting, Education

Early- and mid-career learning for choral conductors is hard to find and requires a public process that demands courage and stamina. Read more

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Member Spotlight: Anne Sears and Westminster Choir College

Member Spotlight: Anne Sears and Westminster Choir College

Chorus America Staff | Audiences, Civic Engagement, Community Outreach

Anne Sears, director of external affairs at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, tells Chorus America's president & CEO Ann Meier Baker about a special audience participation project during this year’s choir tour. Read more

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What Happens After the Premiere?

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

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The Rewards of Adventurous Programming

The Rewards of Adventurous Programming

Don Lee | Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, Innovation, Performance, Repertoire

Chorus America/ASCAP Award winners describe their commitment to new music and share strategies for building programs, cultivating audiences, collaborating with composers, and bringing new music to life. Read more

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The Power of "With"

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

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Singing in Tune

Singing in Tune

Chloe Veltman | Audiences, Health, Performance, Rehearsal, Science, Singing

The anatomy of choral intonation and techniques for improving it. Read more

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From Score to Seat

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

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The Rise of the Professional Chorus

The Rise of the Professional Chorus

Matthew Sigman | Careers, History, Innovation, Management/Leadership, Professional

We look back on the emergence of professional choruses in North America and the role of professional singers in bringing them public acclaim. Read more

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Rach On! Performing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil

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

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Verdi's Requiem: Under the Influence

Verdi's Requiem: Under the Influence

Jeffrey Baxter | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Singing, Symphonic

Composers don't exist in a vacuum; they are continually influenced by their predecessors and peers, their culture and society. Here, we look at some of the influences (and influencers) reflected in Verdi's Requiem. Read more

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Resources

Events

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

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

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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir - Choral Conductors Symposium Concert and Webcast

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.   Find out more about the concert: http://www.tmchoir.org/tmcPerformances/conductors-symposium-concert.cfm If you can't be at the concert, you can watch a live webcast at 3pm (UTC -5) on the TMC website.  Sign up to watch the webcast: http://www.tmchoir.org/tmcPerformances/webcast-register.cfm   Read more

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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir - Choral Conductors Symposium Concert and Webcast

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

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The Skylark Vocal Ensemble presents: Joyous, Clear and Fresh

The Skylark Vocal Ensemble presents: Joyous, Clear and Fresh

Marietta, GA

Matthew Guard | Performance

“Joyous, Clear, and Fresh” Classics from both sides of the Atlantic Featuring English Madrigals, English Folksongs set by Gustav Holst, and American Classics arranged by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker March 17, 2013 at 3pm Episcopal Church of St Peter and St Paul, 1795 Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta, GA Read more

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The Skylark Vocal Ensemble presents: Something About Mary

The Skylark Vocal Ensemble presents: Something About Mary

Atlanta, GA

Matthew Guard | Performance

"Something About Mary” Ancient, Romantic, and Modern Hymns to the Virgin Featuring works by Victoria, Gombert, Parsons, Brahms, Bruckner, Britten, Tavener, and Kvoschchinsky Read more

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The Washington Chorus Presents "Elijah"

The Washington Chorus Presents "Elijah"

Washington, DC

The Washington ... | Performance

ELIJAH Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano Laura Vlasak Nolen, mezzo-soprano Benjamin Butterfield, tenor Stephen Salters, baritone with the Children’s Chorus of Washington Joan Gregoryk, Music Director Experience Mendelssohn’s masterpiece—one of the greatest choral works of all time! Read more

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Prelude to Spring

Prelude to Spring

714 S. Westnedge, Kalamazoo, MI

Leona Gould-McElhone | Performance

The five choirs of The Kalamazoo Children's Chorus will herald the coming of Spring with a concert sure to put the audience in the mood for flowers blooming, tress budding and the shedding of winter's gloom.  Join us for a joyous celebration of the coming season. Tickets: $10     Read more

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Missa Pangea

Missa Pangea

157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-3587

CHM | Audiences

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn performs Missa Pangea: One Text, Three Cultural Perspectives Read more

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Missa Pangea

Missa Pangea

85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217

CHM | Audiences

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn performs Missa Pangea: One Text, Three Cultural Perspectives Read more

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Missa Pangea

Missa Pangea

286-88 Seventh Avenue (at Seventh Street), Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215

CHM | Audiences

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn performs Missa Pangea: One Text, Three Cultural Perspectives. Read more

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Dialogue

Questions During Rehearsal?

Questions During Rehearsal?

Anonymous | Rehearsal, Singing

Conductors, do you let your singers ask questions during rehearsal? What are the pros and cons? Read more

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