John Corigliano's Of Rage and Rememberance

John Corigliano's Of Rage and Rememberance

American Choral Review 54 includes an analysis of John Corigliano's work inspired by the AIDS crisis as well as reviews of summer festivals.Read more

David Hamilton’s Music for Choir and Instrumental Ensemble

David Hamilton’s Music for Choir and Instrumental Ensemble

Research Memorandum Series No. 202 This issue provides insight into the music of David Hamilton, prolific composer and music educator from New Zealand. Jennifer Morgan Flory gives us a complete listing of Hamilton's works for choir and intstrumental...Read more

The Choral Works of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)

The Choral Works of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)

This issue provides insight into the music of Hamish MacCunn, Scottish romantic composer, conductor, and teacher. Jennifer Oates gives us a complete listing of MacCunn's choral works, including audio file examples.Read more

On Tour with the Eric Whitacre Singers

On Tour with the Eric Whitacre Singers

The Eric Whitacre Singers recently made its debut U.S. tour in March, organized and presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY.) Chorus America asked four of the Singers to provide some insight into life on the road,...Read more

Member Spotlight: Dominick DiOrio, Composer and Choral Conductor, Indiana University

Member Spotlight: Dominick DiOrio, Composer and Choral Conductor, Indiana University

Dominick DiOrio is one of the youngest people ever to be hired on the conducting faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He leads the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, a 30-member auditioned ensemble that specializes in music of the...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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How Choruses Have Become Ambassadors of Peace

How Choruses Have Become Ambassadors of Peace

Kelsey Menehan | Community Outreach, Impact/Value, Profile, Repertoire, Singing

There is perhaps no more fitting metaphor for bridging discord than voices joined in harmony. Read more

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The Singer's Responsibility for Artistic Excellence

The Singer's Responsibility for Artistic Excellence

Kelsey Menehan | Recruitment, Singing, Volunteer

Over 40 million people sing in choruses in the United States and countless more worldwide. But why don't choruses usually garner the prestige that, say, symphony orchestras do? Is it because we're just not measuring up? Read more

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Reaching for Artistic Excellence

Reaching for Artistic Excellence

How Choruses Actively Plan for Improvement

Kelsey Menehan | Governance, Impact/Value, Professional, Recruitment, Singing, Technique/Tool, Volunteer

No matter where your chorus is on the road toward artistic excellence, you can take steps to get better—a diverse sample of choruses tell their inspiring stories. Read more

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Building Today's Professional Choruses

Building Today's Professional Choruses

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

Adventuresome repertoire, distinctive voices, flexible organizations, and innovative productions have expanded the concept of what a professional chorus looks like today—here's what it takes to excel. Read more

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Watch & Learn A Chinese Folksong

Watch & Learn A Chinese Folksong

Jing Ling-Tam | Repertoire, Singing

"Mò Li Hua" (Jasmine Flower) has been popular since the Qing Dynasty. Read more

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The 10 Commandments for Recording Your Chorus

The 10 Commandments for Recording Your Chorus

Brad Spencer | Impact/Value, Legal/Licensing, Management/Leadership, Marketing/Public Relations, Technique/Tool

Professionally produced recordings are still one of the best ways you can enhance the quality, image, reputation, and morale of your chorus. Read more

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Breaking the Silence of Addiction

Breaking the Silence of Addiction

Daniel O'Neill | Community Outreach, Education, Health

Composer Michael Shaieb's oratorio, "Through a Glass, Darkly," is making choral music a vehicle to address methamphetamine addiction in the gay community. When the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC set out to perform it, they did a lot more than just learn the music. Read about the comprehensive outreach initiative they developed to bring this growing social problem to light. Read more

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The Wow Factor

The Wow Factor

Kelsey Menehan | Composing/Commissioning, Impact/Value, Innovation, Marketing/Public Relations, Repertoire

Think choral music is only found in drafty churches or formal concert halls? Think again! These innovators are stretching our imaginations and taking choral performances to the next level. Read more

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Out of the Concert Hall...

Out of the Concert Hall...

Choral Concerts in Unusual Venues

Kelsey Menehan | Audiences, Community Outreach, Innovation, Operations, Performance

What happens when you take your concert to a museum, armory, warehouse, stone mill, or parking garage? Performing music in unusual venues can ignite a spark of creativity and community connection for choruses. Read more

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The Choral Works of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)

The Choral Works of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)

Jennifer Oates | Audiences, Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, History, Performance, Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing

This issue provides insight into the music of Hamish MacCunn, Scottish romantic composer, conductor, and teacher. Jennifer Oates gives us a complete listing of MacCunn's choral works, including audio file examples. Read more

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David Hamilton’s Music for Choir and Instrumental Ensemble

David Hamilton’s Music for Choir and Instrumental Ensemble

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, Performance, Rehearsal, Repertoire, Singing

Research Memorandum Series No. 202 This issue provides insight into the music of David Hamilton, prolific composer and music educator from New Zealand. Jennifer Morgan Flory gives us a complete listing of Hamilton's works for choir and intstrumental ensemble. Read more

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John Corigliano's Of Rage and Rememberance

John Corigliano's Of Rage and Rememberance

Community and Ritual in the Age of AIDS

Chorus America Staff | Repertoire

American Choral Review 54 includes an analysis of John Corigliano's work inspired by the AIDS crisis as well as reviews of summer festivals. Read more

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Choral-Orchestral Engagements: Common Practices

Choral-Orchestral Engagements: Common Practices

Chorus America Staff | Management/Leadership, Operations, Performance, Rehearsal

This practical resources for choruses provides guidance on collaborating successfully with orchestras, based on conversations with more than 30 artistic administrators. Originally published in 2004, the report was reviewed and republished in 2013. Read more

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The Choral Works of Stephen Chatman

The Choral Works of Stephen Chatman

Chorus America Staff | Conducting, Repertoire, Research/Data

Research Memorandum Series No. 201. This issue provides insight into the music of Stephen Chatman, internationally known Canadian composer and teacher. Graeme Langager gives us a complete listing of Chatman's published and unpublished choral compositions. Read more

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Renaissance and Baroque Performance Practice: Invaluable Resources for the Choral Conductor

Renaissance and Baroque Performance Practice: Invaluable Resources for the Choral Conductor

Chorus America Staff | Conducting, Research/Data

Research Memorandum Series No. 200. A thorough and definitive compilation of resources in Renaissance and Baroque performance practice spanning, approximately, the past 70 years. This issue provides a broad yet in-depth overview of the manifold issues faced by choral conductors in preparing performances of music from these time periods. Read more

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Navigating a Music Director Transition

Navigating a Music Director Transition

An Online Seminar

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Conducting, Governance, Operations, Strategic Planning, Technology

Responding to survey data that revealed that 33% of responding conductors were founding directors that anticipated retiring from their ensembles within 5-10 years, Chorus America created this online seminar, Navigating a Music Director Transition. Packed full of video interviews with leaders in the field who have addressed this transition from all different roles (departing music director, incoming music director, board president, executive director, search committee member, etc.), as well as practical worksheets and tools, the 4-part seminar is a vital resource for any choruses anticipating an artistic change. Read more

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Kent Tritle on Monteverdi Vespers

Kent Tritle on Monteverdi Vespers

Kent Tritle | Conducting, Performance, Repertoire

Conductor Kent Tritle, who conducted Monteverdi's Vespers at the 2011 Berkshire Choral Festival, offers his insights on the challenges of singing this seminal choral work. Read more

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Arthur Farwell’s New York City “Song and Light Festival”

Arthur Farwell’s New York City “Song and Light Festival”

Chorus America Staff | Research/Data

American Choral Review 53.2 Read more

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Singer Audition Form

Singer Audition Form

Chorus America Staff | Evaluation, Operations, Recruitment, Sample/Template, Singing

A sample form for conductors to use when evaluating potential singers. Read more

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Events

 

Cordus Mundi & Friends - June 9, 2013

Cordus Mundi & Friends - June 9, 2013

Solebury, PA

Rick Rosen | Performance

Bucks County, PA-based male acappella group Cordus Mundi presents Cordus & Friends, a collaborative concert. Read more

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New Hope - Solebury Community Choir - June 2, 2013

New Hope - Solebury Community Choir - June 2, 2013

New Hope, PA

Rick Rosen | Performance

New Hope-Solebury concludes Season #1 with a mixed program.   Read more

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PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

2315 Durant Ave Berkeley, CA 94704

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PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

1111 O'Farrell St San Francisco, CA 94109

Dale Engle |

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PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

PME’s A Cappella Jazz & Pop Concert

1970 Chestnut Street, Berkeley, CA

Dale Engle | Diversity

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ARS MUSICA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA PRESENT Stravinsky & Bruckner: A Masterworks Concert: Themes of Psalms, Peace, and Salvation

ARS MUSICA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA PRESENT Stravinsky & Bruckner: A Masterworks Concert: Themes of Psalms, Peace, and Salvation

6 S. Monroe St., Ridgewood, New Jersey

Ars Musica Choraloe | Composing/Commissioning

Ars Musica's Stravinsky &  Bruckner: A Masterworks Concert, conducted by Music Director Kelly Crandell will be performed at 8 pm on Saturday, June 8, 2013, at West Side Presbyterian Church,6 South Monroe St.,Ridgewood,NJ. It features Ars Musica's world premiere of "Longed-for Rain," by contemporary composer Martha Sullivan, who offers a preconcert talk at 7 pm. Purchase tickets at www.arsmusica.org or +1‑973‑628‑8793: $20 (advance); $25 day of concert; 12 and under, free. Read more

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Columbia Pro Cantare Performs Music of Spain and Latin America

Columbia Pro Cantare Performs Music of Spain and Latin America

5460 Trumpeter Rd, Columbia, MD 21044

Columbia Pro Cantare | Performance

The Columbia Pro Cantare chorus will perform music of Spain and Latin America at the Jim Rouse Theatre, Columbia. The chorus, under the direction of Frances Motyca Dawson, will be joined for the performance by classical guitarist Magdalena Duhagon, soprano Laura Whittenberger, pianist Alison Gatwood, and a brass ensemble led by Jared Denhard. Read more

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Dark Eyes/New Eyes: A Journey in Armenian Music

Dark Eyes/New Eyes: A Journey in Armenian Music

New York City

emilymt | Audiences

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Simply Gershwin

Simply Gershwin

Kirkland, WA

Master Chorus E... | Adults/Seniors

  Enjoy the smooth tunes and jazzy rhythms of one of our greatest tunesmiths and finest contributors to the great American songbook, George Gershwin, as only Master Chorus Eastside can do it.  Revel in the lavish melodies and driving jazz of Rhapsody in Blue for piano and chorus, swoon to the rich choral harmonies of Love is Here to Stay, Embraceable You, and Someone to Watch Over Me, and tap your toes to the irresistible dance rhythms of Nice Work if You Can Get it, Strike Up the Band, and more!  The consummate entertainer Mary Jo Dugaw makes a guest appearance in solo renditions of the show tunes of Gershwin and a few of his Tin Pan Alley contemporaries, and then joins the chorus in an unforgettable finale, selections from Porgy and Bess.  Don’t miss it!   Read more

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Festival Chorale Oregon Presents Bluegrass Mass

Festival Chorale Oregon Presents Bluegrass Mass

Mt. Angel, Oregon

diltis | Performance

  Tim Sharp’s bluegrass choral mass, "Come Away to the Skies : A High Lonesome Mass," blends traditional Latin text and folk-hymns of the American South, with a special guest appearance of the composer on banjo joining the bluegrass musicians. In contrast, "Eclectic Mass" is a stunning collection of movements of the traditional mass by different contemporary composers, chosen by FCO Artistic Director Dr. Solveig Holmquist. Read more

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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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