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Articles

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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Bringing Today's Choral Composers into Your Community

Bringing Today's Choral Composers into Your Community

Kelsey Menehan | Children/Youth, Composing/Commissioning, Education

How Minnesota's VocalEssence and composer Eric Whitacre helped high school students, choral directors, and community members of all ages discover the power of contemporary choral music through a festival and community sing event. Read more

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Resources

The Choral Arrangements of Gene Glickman: Part II

The Choral Arrangements of Gene Glickman: Part II

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

Research Memorandum Series No. 191 Read more

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The Choral Arrangements of Gene Glickman: Part I

The Choral Arrangements of Gene Glickman: Part I

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

Research Memorandum Series No. 190 Read more

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The Choral Music of Healey Willan: Part III

The Choral Music of Healey Willan: Part III

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

Research Memorandum Series No. 189 Read more

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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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