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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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Resources

Two Composition Lessons from Handel

Two Composition Lessons from Handel

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

Handel’s practice of borrowing from other composers allows us the opportunity to probe into the great composer’s style and creative thought processes. A number of scholars have shown without question that the majority of Handel’s borrowings transform his source materials into new creations entirely his own. But what does “entirely his own” really mean? Read more

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Choral Music from Jewish Tradition: Bibliography

Choral Music from Jewish Tradition: Bibliography

Joshua Jacobson | Composing/Commissioning, Diversity, Repertoire

A bibliography of important resources from the Jewish choral tradition prepared by Joshua Jacobson. Read more

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

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

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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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