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Bronze Award Chorus America's award-winning quarterly magazine, The Voice, highlights chorus news, artistic initiatives in the choral world, and advice and commentary on the business of running a successful chorus. The Voice is distributed to more than 4,000 choral leaders throughout North America. It is published in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter; ISSN 1074-0805. Browse articles and past issues in the tabs below.

Editor, Liza W. Beth; Associate Editor, Lauren Rosenthal; Advertising Manager, Anne Grobstich Erps

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Articles

Why Business Support May Come in Smaller Packages

Heidi Waleson | Fundraising, Marketing/Public Relations, Networking

Choruses looking for new sources of corporate support might do well to investigate small businesses, which, according to a survey by the Business Committee for the Arts, represent a largely untapped resource. Read more

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Tomorrow's Voices: A Composer In the Classroom

Katryn Conlin | Children/Youth, Composing/Commissioning, Education, Schools

Thanks to a residency program, one composer spends time with three high school choirs, creating new music, new singers, and audiences for the future. Read more

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Gregg Smith Singers At 50

Kelsey Menehan | Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, History, Repertoire

A look at the Gregg Smith Singers' astounding legacy of supporting new choral music in America. Read more

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Chorus America Has an Appetite for Learning

And What the Choral Field and Fruit Flies Have in Common!

Ann Meier Baker | Education, Governance, Impact/Value, Management/Leadership, Strategic Planning

For an organization to make significant progress it needs collective thinking, an appetite for learning, and the ability to adapt. Read more

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Performing Under Pressure

On Being a King's College Chorister

Karin Brookes | Children/Youth, Education, History, Impact/Value, Singing

Thorough preparation is key to a flawless performance when 200 million listeners tune in to hear the annual (and beloved) broadcast of the King's College Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Read more

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Is Your Personnel Manual Complete?

Dave Ljung | Finance, Management/Leadership, Operations

Communicating personnel policies to your staff is critical, especially in small arts organizations such as choruses where the lines between staff and board responsibilities are not always clearly spelled out. Here are the policies most commonly missing in personnel manuals of nonprofits. Read more

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Gay and Lesbian Choruses - Then and Now

John D. Sparks | Community Outreach, Diversity, History, Impact/Value

A history of gay and lesbian choruses in America: A movement that began in anger and isolation has given way to musical excellence and collaborations promoting tolerance and inclusion. Read more

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But I Don't Have a Tuxedo...

Is Concert Hall Etiquette Exclusionary?

Duain Wolfe | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, Impact/Value, Marketing/Public Relations, Operations

We have created an elitist culture around classical music, about clothes and small talk and polite applause, and then we wonder why the cabbies and those who "don't have tuxedos" don't come to our concerts. Should we be working to change this? How can we do it? Read more

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What Is A Chorus?

How We Define Choral Music - Now and Then

Tom Kelly | History, Impact/Value, Repertoire

And what exactly is choral music? Music claimed by choruses is often not choral in origin—it becomes choral music when a chorus sings it. Read more

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Switching the Dial On Choral Music

John D. Sparks | Impact/Value, Repertoire

Even with many more choices, you hear less and less vocal music on the radio - why, and what can you do about it? Read more

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Issues

Spring 2013, Volume 36 #3: Singing and Wellness

April 17, 2013

In this special issue of The Voice, Chorus America explores the research and tells stories about how singing together contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities.Read more

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Winter 2012/13, Volume 36 #2

December 17, 2012

The print issue includes an article about Benjamin Britten's War Requiem in honor of the centenary; strategies for artistic leaders to excel in administrative areas as well; findings from Philadelphia's Mendelssohn Club's strategic alliances study; and...Read more

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Fall 2012, Volume 36 #1

September 19, 2012

The print issue features Eric Friesen's thoughts on the place of the human singing voice in today's constantly changing world, adapted from his keynote speech at Chorus America's 35th Annual Conference; practical advice on how choruses can effectively...Read more

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Summer 2012, Volume 35, #4

June 1, 2012

The print issue includes an exploration of chorus culture and its impact on a chorus's ability to change; in-depth advice for volunteer choruses that are seeking to add professional singers to their rosters; a spotlight on composer/conductor Alice Parker...Read more

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Spring 2012, Volume 35, #3

March 1, 2012

The print issue includes an exploration of educational opportunities for conductors; a look at how choral music programming is changing on radio stations nationwide; a spotlight on Chicago a cappella and its journey to capture the history and repertoire...Read more

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Winter 2011-12, Volume 35, #2

December 1, 2011

The print issue includes a series of interviews with ASCAP Award winners about the challenges and rewards of programming contemporary music, a focus on the many paths to becoming the executive or managing director of a chorus, an essay by Chorus America...Read more

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Fall 2011, Volume 35, #1

October 1, 2011

The print issue includes a feature article examining the best methods for keeping singers in tune, a meditation on choruses as a communal activity, an exploration of "give and get" policies for boards, and a summary of the 2011 Conference.Read more

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Summer 2011: Volume 34, #4

May 31, 2011

The print issue includes profiles of numerous choral consortiums and other multi-chorus efforts around the U.S., a feature article on the growing trend of young men's choruses to keep boys singing through voice change, a lengthy exploration of the...Read more

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Spring 2011: Volume 34, #3

February 28, 2011

Winner of the Association TRENDS Media Bronze Medal, this special focus issue examined the face of today's audience from all angles: data on audience engagement from WolfBrown, lessons to be learned from opera marketing efforts, a conductor's perspective...Read more

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Winter 2010-11: Volume 34, #2

December 31, 2010

The print issue includes these three articles on singer health as one feature article, a discussion on the art and science of good sound design for your concerts, an interview with Grant Gershon on performing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, and the 2010...Read more

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