Singing and Healthy Children

Kelsey Menehan | Children/Youth, Education, Health, Impact/Value, Participation, Performance, Schools, Singing

Participating in a chorus can have a transformative effect on a child’s academic achievement and overall well-being. Read more

Singing and Psychological Well-being

Kelsey Menehan | Health, Impact/Value, Participation, Performance, Research/Data, Singing

The power of group singing to elevate mood and forge relationships can help people weather challenges and face life’s ups and downs. Read more

Member Spotlight; Melinda Pollack-Harris, Sing to Live Community Chorus, Chicago

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

When Melinda Pollack-Harris was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, she needed music to face the challenge. That was the inspiration for Sing to Live Community Chorus for women, loved ones, and friends touched by cancer. Read more

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

Kelsey Menehan | Composing/Commissioning, Education, General, Impact/Value, Innovation, Participation, Performance, Professional, Singing

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 last 50 years. Chorus America talked to DiOrio about his own compositions and his passion for finding and performing the music of contemporary composers. Read more

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

Singer Handbook Table of Contents

Chorus America Staff | Operations, Performance, Rehearsal, Sample/Template, Singing

Most choruses provide singers with a handbook for participation; use this sample table of contents to make sure you haven't forgotten any policies. Read more

Choral-Orchestral Engagements

Survey Results and Best Practices

Chorus America Staff | Community Outreach, Legal/Licensing, Operations, Performance, Research/Data, Sample/Template, Symphonic, Technique/Tool

This 2004 whitepaper provides practical guidance on the unique issues choruses face in working with orchestras for concert engagements. Based on data gathered from Chorus America's symphonic chorus members, it also provides a sample contract and budget to use when negotiating your engagement. Read more

Robert Schumann's A Cappella Choral Works

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

American Choral Review 51.2 Read more

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

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

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

Handel Jephtha

Boston, MA

Handel and Hayd... | Audiences, Civic Engagement, Conducting, Performance

Considered one of the finest Handelians in the world, Harry Christophers brings Jephtha to Symphony Hall audiences for the first time since 1867. Premiered in the US by the Handel and Haydn Society in 1855, the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus bring a legend to life: the oratorio tells the story of Jephtha, a commander for the Israelites against the Ammonites, and his daughter Iphis, who is betrothed to one of Jephtha's soldiers, Hamor. With a stellar cast, Christophers will enliven this dramatic story of passions and redemptions, and showcase the transformative powers of Handel's music.  Read more