Repertoire
Articles
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
- Views (364)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Vance George: My Life in Choral Music So Far
Vance George | Conducting, Impact/Value, Profile, Repertoire
Vance George, former director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, reflects on a lifetime of musicmaking. Read more
- Views (343)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Do Choral Concerts Need To Be More Visual?
Sandra Bernhard | Audiences, Innovation, Marketing/Public Relations, Repertoire
Stage director Sandra Bernhard and conductor Stephen Coker consider ways choruses might enhance the concert experience by using visuals and storytelling techniques. Read more
- Views (354)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
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
- Views (336)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
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
- Views (324)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
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
- Views (415)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Sacred Texts in a Secular World
A Word To Nonbelievers and Believers
Michael Steinberg | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire
What should we do when a piece of music offends a whole group of people? Read more
- Views (319)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Your Concert As Feast: Notes on Programming
George Gelles | Conducting, History, Operations, Repertoire
Never program down to your audience, and never assume that your audience isn't ready to be challenged by fresh interpretations of familiar pieces, by works from the canon that unjustly have been ignored, by the music of today and tomorrow. Read more
- Views (315)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Say Little and Do Much: An Interview with Steve Reich
Victoria Looseleaf | Composing/Commissioning, Profile, Repertoire
With his finger still firmly affixed on contemporary music's pulse, Minimalist composer Steve Reich, at age 68, creates rich, rhythmic universes of hypnotic sound. Recently hailed by the Village Voice as "America's greatest living composer," the New York-born maverick's works cover the gamut—from his early taped speeches in 1965 to his and video artist Beryl Korot's 2002 digital video opera, Three Tales. Read more
- Views (296)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Studying Bach with Mel Gibson
Tom Hall | Composing/Commissioning, Diversity, History, Repertoire
Performances of Bach's Passions, particularly in light of the attention that Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has received, present an opportunity for Christians and Jews to confront issues of religious intolerance, the role of the arts, and how the arts might, advertently or inadvertently, promote intolerance. We can use our role as musical leaders to engage in this important dialogue on religious intolerance. Read more
- Views (371)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Resources
A Contemporary Vision of the End: R. Murray Schafer's Apocalypsis
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing
American Choral Review 45.2 Read more
- Views (337)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Recent Research in Choral Music I: Books and Dissertations
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data
Research Memorandum Series No. 183 Read more
- Views (327)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Life on a Higher Pedestal: Otto Dresel's Bach Club (1883-1890)
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, Diversity, History, Performance, Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing
American Choral Review 45.1 Read more
- Views (557)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
The Motets of Georg Schumann (1866-1952); Bach: The Learned Musician: Aspects of Bach Biography
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing
American Choral Review 44.2 Read more
- Views (460)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Diction and Vocal Repertoire: Reference Tools for the Choral Conductor
Chorus America Staff | Repertoire, Research/Data, Singing, Technique/Tool
Research Memorandum Series No. 181 Read more
- Views (367)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
From Billings to Ives: American Choral Music Recordings, Part II
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data
Research Memorandum Series No. 180 Read more
- Views (317)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): A Comprehensive Bibliography
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data
Research Memorandum Series No. 179 Read more
- Views (344)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Writings on the Choral Music of Brahms, Part III
Chorus America Staff | Composing/Commissioning, History, Repertoire, Research/Data
Research Memorandum Series No. 178 Read more
- Views (376)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Events
San Gabriel Valley Choral Company Presents "Tell It!"
Pasadena, CA 91101
San Gabriel Val... | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, CA News, Community Outreach, Conducting, Performance, Repertoire, Singing
The San Gabriel Valley Choral Company presents a concert entitled “Tell It!” Complete with soloists and instrumentalists, this rousing concert features folk songs, spirituals, and American classics by Aaron Copland, Stephen Foster, and more. Tickets are now available at the cost of $9 to $15 for two performances: June 8 at 6:15 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia and June 15 at 5:00 p.m. at All Saints Church in Pasadena. More information can be found at www.choralcompany.org or by calling 626-579-2433. Read more
- Views (25)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
San Gabriel Valley Choral Company Presents "Tell It!"
Monrovia, CA 91016
San Gabriel Val... | Adults/Seniors, Conducting, Families, Performance, Repertoire, Singing
The San Gabriel Valley Choral Company presents a concert entitled “Tell It!” Complete with soloists and instrumentalists, this rousing concert features folk songs, spirituals, and American classics by Aaron Copland, Stephen Foster, and more. Tickets are now available at the cost of $9 to $15 for two performances: June 8 at 6:15 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia and June 15 at 5:00 p.m. at All Saints Church in Pasadena. More information can be found at www.choralcompany.org or by calling 626-579-2433. Read more
- Views (23)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Breath of Inspiration: An evening of Gospel, Classical, Jazz and More!
111 S Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012
iris@DCINY.org | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, Children/Youth, Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, Diversity, Education, Families, General, Marketing/Public Relations, Participation, Performance, Repertoire, Schools, Singing, Symphonic, Venue
An evening of triumphant music! Members of Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony and Gwen Wyatt Chorale (CA) provide an entertaining palette of unique genre-bending sounds. From Gospel to Classical, these passionate, energetic artists perform with a supreme gusto and enthusiasm that is sure to delight and entertain audiences of all ages and tastes. Read more
- Views (46)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Choral Arts presents Life Stories: The Choral Music of Eric Barnum
Seattle, WA
Choral Arts | Audiences, Children/Youth, Community Outreach, Composing/Commissioning, Conducting, Education, General, Performance, Repertoire
An extraordinary concert devoted to the luminous harmonies and deep spirituality of one of America's foremost choral composers, Eric Barnum. This program features many of Barnum's most alluring works and includes the Seattle premiere of "Human Heart", performed as a combined finale with six exceptional student choirs. During the evening, Choral Arts will also premiere "Chronologic", its annual Finding Your Voice poetry contest commission. For more information visit: http://www.choral-arts.org/concerts/life-stories.html Read more
- Views (114)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Voce Chamber Singers presents "Summertime..."
432 Van Buren Street, Herndon, Virginia
Joan Winter Skerritt | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, Families, Performance, Repertoire, Singing
Voce welcomes the sultry months with a concert featuring the summer section of Haydn's “The Seasons” along with selections by Gershwin, Brubeck, Piazzolla and many more, all with a summertime theme. Read more
- Views (47)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Voce Chamber Singers presents "Summertime..."
Reston, Virginia 20191
Joan Winter Skerritt | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, Families, General, Performance, Repertoire, Singing
Voce welcomes the sultry months with a concert featuring the summer section of Haydn's “The Seasons” along with selections by Gershwin, Brubeck, Piazzolla and many more, all with a summertime theme. Read more
- Views (52)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (1)
Tim Sharp Talk on "High Lonesome" Bluegrass Mass
Salem, Oregon
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
- Views (152)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
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
- Views (75)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
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
- Views (77)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
Concert: The American Choral Tradition
545 Meadow Road, W. Windsor, NJ
Princeton Pro Musica | Adults/Seniors, Audiences, General, Performance, Repertoire
Princeton Pro Musica closes its 34th concert season with a celebration of The American Choral Trandition on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 3pm in the Princeton Meadow Event Center. Read more
- Views (74)
- Favorites (0)
- Comments (0)
