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What Every Chorus Should Know About Its Singers

What Every Chorus Should Know About Its Singers

Chorus America Staff | Impact/Value, Management/Leadership, Participation, Singing, Volunteer

What do choral singers wish their chorus managers and music directors knew about them? What would make singers' experience in the chorus more enjoyable, more meaningful, more fun? Read more

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Boys to Men: Singing Through Voice Change

Boys to Men: Singing Through Voice Change

Chloe Veltman | Children/Youth, Education, Health, Participation, Schools, Singing

An influx of new programs are beginning to recognize the value of keeping boys singing—through changing voices and for a lifetime. Read more

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Keeping Singers Well: Exercise and Sleep

Keeping Singers Well: Exercise and Sleep

Matthew Sigman | Health, Singing

When your body is the instrument, it's imperative to keep it in tip-top shape with good exercise habits and the right amount of sleep. Read more

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Keeping Singers Well: Hydration

Keeping Singers Well: Hydration

Matthew Sigman | Health, Singing

While it is ultimately the responsibility of the singer to stay properly hydrated, it's not always so easy. Read more

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Why the Bach Passions Are Problematic

Why the Bach Passions Are Problematic

Tom Hall | History, Performance, Repertoire

What is our responsibility as singers and as choruses when historic choral works are offensive, even hostile, to a whole group of people? Tom Hall, music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, discusses Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion. Read more

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Spotlight on Eric Whitacre

Spotlight on Eric Whitacre

Kelsey Menehan | Composing/Commissioning, Innovation, Profile, Repertoire, Singing

We take a look at the man behind the cluster chords: how Eric Whitacre arrived at a life in music, and the ups and downs he's encountered along the way. Read more

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Selecting Music for Diverse Audiences

Selecting Music for Diverse Audiences

An Interview with Julian Wachner

Chorus America Staff | Audiences, Conducting, Innovation, Profile, Repertoire

With so many music directors juggling multiple podiums, choosing repertoire that meets the specific needs of each chorus and the audience in that community takes on special significance. Read more

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The Rise of A Cappella

The Rise of A Cappella

An Interview with CASA Founder and Sing-Off Producer Deke Sharon

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Community Outreach

Choral music—especially a cappella choral music—is more popular than ever it seems. Chorus America sat down with Deke Sharon, founder of the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA) and a producer of NBC's The Sing-Off, to get the inside scoop behind the a cappella choral music movement and its current place in pop culture. Read more

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The Art and Science of Good Sound Design

The Art and Science of Good Sound Design

Michael Shaughnessy | Audiences, Performance, Technology

Whether your needs are as simple as amplifying announcements from the podium or as complex as balancing voices with instruments in a large space, paying attention to sound design can make or break your concert. Read more

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5 Tips for Performing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil

5 Tips for Performing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil

Alexander Ruggieri | Rehearsal, Repertoire, Singing, Technique/Tool

The All-Night Vigil doesn't last all night anymore, but doing what it takes to perform it well certainly can keep conductors and singers up nights. Here are five tips for conquering this masterpiece: Read more

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Resources

Events

Santos: World premiere oratorio

Santos: World premiere oratorio

3321 Sixteenth Street, San Francisco, CA

sf girls chorus | Children/Youth, Composing/Commissioning, Performance, Singing

World Premiere oratorio by Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nilo Cruz Read more

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Choral Journey to the East

Choral Journey to the East

5 Thomas Circle, NW Washington, DC 20005

Children's Chor... | Audiences, Children/Youth, Families, Performance, Repertoire, Venue

Join Children's Chorus of Washington, the finest children's chorus in our nation's capital, on its "Choral Journey to the East" on Sunday, May 12 at 4:00pm at National City Christian Church. The concert will feature all CCW's ensembles joined by Erhu and Guzheng players, for a program of songs from various countries in East Asia. Read more

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The Great American Sing

The Great American Sing

4310 County Road 137, St. Cloud, MN 56301

Great River Chorale | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, Children/Youth, Community Outreach, Education, Families, General, Marketing/Public Relations, Participation, Performance, Repertoire, Schools, Singing

Music by the people and for the people!   Read more

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Annual Spring Concert featuring Puccini's "Messa di Gloria"

Annual Spring Concert featuring Puccini's "Messa di Gloria"

222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364

LeeAnn Close | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, General, Performance

If you thought Puccini was just an opera composer, think again. Come and hear the Oratorio Society of Queens perform the brilliant mass for chorus and orchestra, "Messa di Gloria," that Puccini wrote as a young man - on the verge of greatness! Also featured are opera highlights and the best of America's musical heritage - reflecting a wide range of music that is the American choral experience - with Maestro David Close and The Orchestral Arts Ensemble of Queens. Read more

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Bella Voce Women's Chorus of Vermont -  Spring Concert

Bella Voce Women's Chorus of Vermont - Spring Concert

24 South Street, South Hero, VT

Linda Wheeler |

Contact Information: www.bellavocevt.org director@bellavocevt.org 802-879-1218 Tickets: $18 Adults, $15 Seniors and Students Advance tickets (will be) available after April 18 from FLYNNTIX.org, 802-86-FLYNN  Read more

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Bella Voce Women's Chorus of Vermont -  Spring Concert

Bella Voce Women's Chorus of Vermont - Spring Concert

81 St. Paul Street, Burlington, VT

Linda Wheeler |

"Songs of Hope and Freedom" Tickets: $18 Adults, $15 Seniors and Students Advance tickets (will be) available after April 18 from FLYNNTIX.org, 802-86-FLYNN  Read more

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ALL SCHOOL’S CHORUS Debut Concert

ALL SCHOOL’S CHORUS Debut Concert

4025 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110

MediaPro | Children/Youth

Six schools strong will sing six contemporary tunes + one in the first “All School’s Chorus” concert. More than 100 children will be on stage along with special appearances from La Colina’s OutBurst Group and Santa Barbara Children’s Chorus Concert Chorus directed by Erin Bonski Evans. Read more

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Susquehanna Chorale "Sojourn"

Susquehanna Chorale "Sojourn"

One Ames Ave., Chautauqua, NY

Susquehanna Cho... | Audiences

  This spring, there is something to refresh and delight you at every corner, at every bend in the road. Come to "Sojourn" and experience surprise, color, and rebirth in a mix of styles that's sure to inspire you.   Read more

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Susquehanna Chorale "Sojourn"

Susquehanna Chorale "Sojourn"

Messiah College, One College Ave., Grantham, PA

Susquehanna Cho... | Audiences

  This spring, there is something to refresh and delight you at every corner, at every bend in the road. Come to "Sojourn" and experience surprise, color, and rebirth in a mix of styles that's sure to inspire you.   Read more

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Susquehanna Chorae Sojourn

Susquehanna Chorae Sojourn

64 W. Chocolate Ave., Hershey, PA 17033

Susquehanna Cho... |

This spring, there is something to refresh and delight you at every corner, at every bend in the road. Come to "Sojourn" and experience surprise, color, and rebirth in a mix of styles that's sure to inspire you. 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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