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More to come: choirs, services and concerts in April

This is a bit rushed, and certainly behind the eight ball, so the hope is that location links and more services, and probably one more April choral concert will appear in a few days. Check back at Choralescence blog, say … Continue reading

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The March Beat

This March will have a much different shape, chorally, than last year, when the vast majority of chorus sounds were sung and heard on the last two weekends of the month. This year March has a regular flow to it, … Continue reading

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Wachet auf, singers!

Wachet auf, singers! Okay, we’ve had our nap. Seven, almost eight weeks of choral slumber have passed, and it’s beginning to look like morning. Tomorrow (Sunday) will bring the Point Loma University Concert Choir to Ontario First Nazarene at 10:45 … Continue reading

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Sing We All Nowell

Counting Christmas Day, we’ve just begun our own Twelve Days of Choral Christmas, with this weekend marking the annual change from chorale and college choral groups to church choirs. We have over two hundred local chorale and college singers singing … Continue reading

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The chorus swells

Among the late news just arriving have been items for this weekend, so this page returns a few days early, with music through the 15th In Upland the arts and music festival at the Upland Latter Days Stake has already … Continue reading

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Choirs Rising

I just looked it up. Festal describes something related to a feast or festival, which makes it certainly appropriate to this season. On that note, it’s right that nearly a third of the twenty-nine choral events listed here from the … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving: to Grandfather’s house we go

Over the river, and through the wood, To Grandfather’s house we go; the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood, to Grandfather’s house away! We would … Continue reading

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Fall Flurry: An opera, two orchestras, a bunch of choirs and more

The major concentrations of choral music that you’d expect any year would be around Christmas and Easter. Sometimes, though, the planets seem to align, and we get a bunch of music at another time of year. Such is the time … Continue reading

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Britten, or a festival by any other name…

O.k. – there are concerts this month in our area, and other performances, but there are no festivals. Sometimes it can be hard to tell which is which, though a festival ‘by any other name would…’ Take an event of … Continue reading

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The chorales are coming!

Even as August is delivering another dose of summer heat, the fall choral season is tiptoeing to the starting line. If you are a skilled choral singer with no current ties, both of the Claremont centered chorales are beginning rehearsals … Continue reading

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