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February is a normally quiet choral month. Most big choruses and colleges begin their spring concerts in March, and church choirs are mainly planning major efforts for the week of Easter. This year is much the same, but there are … Continue reading →

The college choirs are coming to a church near you. Not the choirs from the six collegiate music departments featured here most often; Chaffey, Cal Poly Pomona, Claremont Joint Music Program, Mt. SAC, Pomona College, or the University of La … Continue reading →

The longest night of the year in the northern half of the globe has just passed, quickly followed as always by the longest night of choral singing. The colleges and chorales are done for now, the carolers and wassail singers … Continue reading →

With these four days, Saturday through Tuesday, we start tilting from chorale and college concerts to church choirs and services. That doesn’t mean the more classical composers are done – this weekend brings us the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Vivaldi … Continue reading →

And off we go! The first choral feast of the choral season has begun already, with Vivaldi last night in Claremont, and more tonight over in Pomona and Walnut with the choirs of Cal Poly and Mount SAC, all just … Continue reading →

Almost without warning, it seems the local choral season is beginning. A couple of local colleges have choral stuff going on here, a couple of college choirs will come to the area for church concerts, and there are a number … Continue reading →

With summer dormancy upon us, local choral types eager for something need to be willing to search far and wide for music to their taste. This month there are a few musical happenings on the first four weekends of August. … Continue reading →

School’s out for local college choirs and the choral season begins its final flourish today, in just four or five hours. For fifteen days there will be Copland, Fauré, Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Puccini, and Thompson in the Between Two College area … Continue reading →

End of the line, maybe? The schools are almost done, and most church choirs are winding down to summer. What have we left? Quite a lot, actually. By the end of a six week period that began with the last … Continue reading →

In more places than are to be found here, choirs and congregations will sing of eternity this week, following rituals formed over a hundred generations. This is the point of the perennial cycle where we hear ‘Hallelujah! Forever and ever!’ … Continue reading →