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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David Lang on Hearing Music with Fresh Ears

David Lang on Hearing Music with Fresh Ears

David Lang | Audiences, Composing/Commissioning, Innovation, Performance, Profile

Composer David Lang tells about the creative vision of Bang on a Can: Take concerts apart and put them back together again so that music can be heard with fresh ears. Read more

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Your Desert Island Discs

Your Desert Island Discs

Chorus America Staff | Impact/Value, Repertoire, Singing, Symphonic

If you were stranded on a desert island, what choral music recording would you take with you? When we asked this of some 600 choral singers, many of them thought the question was—how to put this delicately?—ill-advised. Read more

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Alice Parker: Finding the Music in the Text

Alice Parker: Finding the Music in the Text

Alice Parker | Composing/Commissioning, Profile

Which comes first—the melody or the lyrics? Composer Alice Parker explains her creative process. Read more

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Singing Seniors

Singing Seniors

Good for the Body, Good for the Soul

Kelsey Menehan | Adults/Seniors, Community Outreach, Health, Impact/Value, Participation, Singing

Senior choruses are springing up all over, and singers are reaping the benefits of meaningful community involvement, increased social interaction, and better health. Read more

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Brazeal Dennard Celebrates 60 Years

Brazeal Dennard Celebrates 60 Years

Chorus America Staff | Conducting, Diversity, Profile

Sixty years ago Brazeal Dennard stood up before the Angelic Choir of the Peoples Baptist Church in Detroit for the first time as its conductor. We profile the life and career of this champion for African-American music and composers. [Editor's note: Brazeal Dennard sadly passed away in July 2010.] Read more

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New Voices on Composing and Commissioning

New Voices on Composing and Commissioning

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, Technique/Tool

Are more composers increasingly looking to the choral genre as a means for expression? We explore the issue in this roundtable discussion featuring Heather Hitchens of Meet The Composer, John Nuechterlein of the American Composers Forum, and Joanne Hubbard Cossa of the American Music Center. Read more

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Working with the Music Director

Working with the Music Director

Chorus America Staff | Conducting, Governance, Management/Leadership

Artistic leadership of a chorus is both an individual balancing act and a highly collaborative endeavor. Read more

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Choral Music: Worth Listening To

Choral Music: Worth Listening To

Tom Hall | Audiences, Impact/Value, Marketing/Public Relations, Performance

When choruses take the time to really sing the text—be it biblical or poetic, somber or silly—we demonstrate the moral consequence of lives that are animated by beauty, passion, and love. Read more

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How to Choose Chorus Apparel

How to Choose Chorus Apparel

Lawana Holland | Marketing/Public Relations, Operations, Performance

Finding the right look for your chorus is no easy undertaking. Here's a look at the questions you should consider before making a decision on what your chorus should wear on stage. Read more

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Learning for Life: A Conducting Masterclass

Learning for Life: A Conducting Masterclass

Karen Deans | Careers, Conducting, Education

Cellists hang out with the other cellists, singers hang out with other singers, but conductors—who do they hang out with? Stephen Czarkowski and 31 other conductors hung out together for four days in May 2006 to share with each other, explore some of the great works in the choral-orchestral repertoire, and learn from some of the nation's finest choral conductors. Read more

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Resources

 

Orchestra Contract

Orchestra Contract

Chorus America Staff | Legal/Licensing, Operations, Performance, Sample/Template

Use this basic sample contract when your chorus is retained to perform by an orchestra. Read more

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Choral Conductors Today: A Study

Choral Conductors Today: A Study

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Conducting, Management/Leadership, Recruitment, Research/Data

Chorus America interviewed more than 700 conductors about their career paths, levels of education, salary, job satisfaction, and more in 2005. The resulting data provides a profile of the "typical" choral conductor that may be surprising. Read more

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Additional content: Ambassadors of Peace

Additional content: Ambassadors of Peace

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

Examples of concert programming that are designed on themes of peace or reconciliation. Partner piece to "How Choruses Have Become Ambassadors of Peace." Read more

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28 American Master Choral Composers

28 American Master Choral Composers

A Repertoire and Recording Listing to Support NEA's American Masterpieces

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, Government/Policy, Repertoire

Celebrating America's greatest choral composers, this publication provides repertoire and recording lists for 28 composers from Billings to Whitacre. Read more

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A Repertoire Reference Guide of Twenty-First Century Works for Male Chorus

A Repertoire Reference Guide of Twenty-First Century Works for Male Chorus

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

Research Memorandum Series No. 199 Read more

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Commissioning Timeline

Commissioning Timeline

Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, Operations, Sample/Template

Commissioning a new work? Follow this two-year timeline to help plot out which steps you should take when. This timeline is appropriate for a work that does not involve complicated instrumental requirements or multiple movements. Read more

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The Jubilee Songs of 1872 and 1884: Reconciling Reconstruction(s)

The Jubilee Songs of 1872 and 1884: Reconciling Reconstruction(s)

Chorus America Staff | Audiences, Diversity, History, Research/Data

American Choral Review 53.1 Read more

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'Music Director Transition' Tool: Where to Publicize the Search

'Music Director Transition' Tool: Where to Publicize the Search

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Conducting, Governance, Marketing/Public Relations, Operations, Strategic Planning, Technique/Tool

A list of chorus- and arts-specific job boards. Read more

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'Music Director Transition' Tool: Sample Search Timeline

'Music Director Transition' Tool: Sample Search Timeline

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Conducting, Governance, Operations, Sample/Template, Strategic Planning

A sample timeline to help with music director search planning. Read more

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'Music Director Transition' Tool: Readiness Quiz

'Music Director Transition' Tool: Readiness Quiz

Chorus America Staff | Careers, Conducting, Governance, Operations, Strategic Planning, Technique/Tool

Is your chorus ready for a founder transition? This 9-question quiz will help you determine the answer. Read more

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Events

 

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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Tim Sharp Talk on "High Lonesome" Bluegrass Mass

Tim Sharp Talk on "High Lonesome" Bluegrass Mass

Salem, Oregon

diltis | Repertoire

  Tim Sharp will lecture on the folk-hymns and musical tradition of the American South that together form the basis of "A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass: Come Away to the Skies". This presentation previews Festival Chorale Oregon's performance of the bluegrass mass on May 19 in Mt. Angel, Oregon, with Tim Sharp on banjo joining the bluegrass musicians. 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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