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Chor Leoni is a low voice choir based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The group was founded as Chor Leoni Men's Choir in 1992 by Order of Canada recipient Diane Loomer, C.M. (1940 - 2012), and consists of up to 70 TTBB singers.
Berliner Singakademie, consisting of nearly 90 singers, is one of the largest amateur choirs in Berlin. It sees itself in the tradition of Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, founded in 1791 and still existing. The choir sings Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and Contemporary music. The choir was founded in 1963 by Helmut Koch.
Beginning with 70 members, it currently has more than 33,000 members across the UK. [17] Caroline Redman Lusher is widely considered to be the pioneer of the "no audition, no need to read music" amateur contemporary choir movement. A 2009 article in the Sunday Times Culture Magazine called her "the key to the choir's success". [18]
This article is based on interviews with Florence Kopleff, who was a member of the Robert Shaw Chorale throughout its existence and served as administrative assistant to Mr. Shaw; and on recollections of John W. Cooledge, a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, and of the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers throughout the existence of that group.
The Paris Choral Society (or PCS) is an auditioned amateur choir based at the American Cathedral in Paris, France. The PCS is incorporated as a voluntary association under French law as an Association loi de 1901, and is made up of 100 singers of different nationalities [1] dedicated to the performance of choral masterpieces. Three concerts are ...
The University of Michigan Men's Glee Club is an all-male glee club (or choir) at the University of Michigan. [1] With roots tracing back to 1859, [2] it is the second oldest glee club in the United States and is the oldest student organization at the university. The club has won the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod on four separate ...
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889 – 12 May 1960) was a prolific and versatile English composer. Though best known for his choral music and, in particular, songs, Gibbs also devoted much of his career to the amateur choral and festival movements in Britain.
Both Giuseppe Verdi [3] and Antonín Dvořák conducted the choir in premières of their own works, as have Edward Roxborough, Ariel Ramírez, Raymond Premru and Geoffrey Burgon in more recent years. The choir continued to be conducted by the most eminent musicians of the day, most notably Sir Malcolm Sargent , whose association with the choir ...