The Voice

About The Voice

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 nearly 2,000 choral leaders throughout North America. It is published in Spring, Summer, and Fall/Winter; ISSN 1074-0805. Browse articles and past issues in the tabs below. Editor, Liza W. Beth

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The experience of several professional core choruses demonstrates there are ways to gracefully handle the inherent tension that arises when paid singers are brought on board in a mostly volunteer...
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Adding paid professional singers to a volunteer chorus raises issues of fairness, finances, artistic prowess, and culture. We offer advice for managing the process from those who've been through it.
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Videos play a vital role in advancing the careers of conductors today, both as self-evaluation tools and as a way to easily showcase skills to others. We explore two types...
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Today's radio programmers are moving past the bad rap of early research and experimenting with a richer mix of choral and vocal music.
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A journey through the history of Jewish liturgical music alters a chorus’s path to the future.
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Chorus America set out to build a new website and it ended up reshaping our organization. Here's what we learned along the way.
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Early- and mid-career learning for choral conductors is hard to find and requires a public process that demands courage and stamina.
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Chorus America/ASCAP Award winners describe their commitment to new music and share strategies for building programs, cultivating audiences, collaborating with composers, and bringing new music to life.
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As the profession of chorus management matures, managers are finding new ways into their careers.
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The majority of choruses in North America are all-volunteer organizations, from the singers who give their musical talent to the board members who run the organization. This poses special challenges...
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Sabbaticals are being used by more nonprofits as an effective tool to retain and reward the best executive talent.
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How can choruses stay competitive in the quest for audience in a fast-changing world of busy lifestyles, cultural glut, home theaters, and web-based entertainment options? And how do we make...