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Fourteen April days – just weeks to go These words are written late at night, with maybe five or six hours to go before the first notes of the last major wave of the 2016-17 choral season. Those who read … Continue reading →

With a touch of the bard we begin, singing: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers … Continue reading →

A string of concerts began with Brahms Friday night, and nearly ends with Orff on 1 May, six area concerts lying between, mostly at college if not all of college. The Brahms and the Orff seem curiously tied together – … Continue reading →

We’ll begin today with message for directors, singers and non-singers alike, regarding a special event. Please read this and pass it on: CHORUS BEING RAISED FOR BENEFIT CONCERT DEC. 28. “San Bernardino Cares” is a benefit concert on December 28 … Continue reading →

The calendar declares Spring is nearly dead – but Spring isn’t ready to leave the stage. Beginning this weekend, local choirs, chorales, choristers and choir directors, and ensembles tied to them, will sing eleven times before June gives way to … Continue reading →

It’s Friday afternoon, almost at the end of the work week, near the end of the month of May, and almost the end of the college choir season. The last two of the college programs in the between two colleges … Continue reading →

The end of the school year marks the coming end of the choral season, too. Season finales and choral ‘finals’ are already in progress with all six local college programs offering their end of season events from the 17th of … Continue reading →

The image is borrowed from a service for someone whose life was like a thread that appeared and disappeared from view, but who remained part of us. The different choirs and ensembles seem to be separate strings tying their own … Continue reading →

The four days in April are today through Sunday, some of the busiest days for choir on the calendar. Below are listings of services for over two dozen places of worship in the between two colleges area (from about Walnut … Continue reading →

Where is the middle of the choral season? Is it half way between Labor Day and the 4th of July? Is it right between Christmas and Easter? Or is it about where the middle concerts are of the groups with … Continue reading →