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Summer is usually so devoid of music not in some distant ‘bowl,’ meaning especially choral music in our neighborhood, that there is room for singers to fall back on their own devices for musical experience. This summer is like the … Continue reading →

I’m a couple of days late here, but I’ve been a little busy with rehearsals and practice. Two persons who read the last post have sent in news of more music this coming weekend, now added to the list of … Continue reading →

The Between Two Colleges area will be chock full of music for the thirty days that begin this Thursday at Cal Poly. The list below has ten events in Pomona, Walnut, Claremont and Ontario featuring local chorales, college choirs, community … Continue reading →

The ‘May Basket’ appears to have been a hit and run reverse of today’s Halloween practices, with a basket of flowers or sweets left by children anonymously on neighbor’s doors. Our musical May Baskets are to be delivered on stages … Continue reading →

You may dispute the ‘Maying,’ in this heading, but it is certainly a month with a college choir focus. If you stretch the month just four days, starting four days ago at University of La Verne, you have every college … Continue reading →

The discovered theme for April choral music ‘between two colleges’ happily turns out to be choral collaboration, for three of five programs in the month involve at least two different choirs. First, with the most choirs and ensembles of the … Continue reading →

The Mozart I heard last week was just the advance guard of a spring surge of choir, a tide that peaks over the last nine days of March, beginning with the Claremont Chorale this Saturday and ending Easter afternoon. The … Continue reading →

March is almost ‘icumen in,’ though we’re still shy a few hours. February hasn’t been totally lacking for singing satisfaction (friends of mine made it possible for me to enjoy some Morley, Tallis, Campion and Byrd), but the next 31 … Continue reading →

No purely choral events this month, but there’s a nice span of time and types of music to sample for those inclined. First, the Repertory Opera Company (more on them in a moment) is presenting “Serenades of Love,” a concert … Continue reading →

Here’s the mid-season concert lull, with a background humming of college choirs and local chorales preparing for major March concerts, and the dozens of local church choirs about to enter Lent leading inexorably to their Easter musical peak. With this … Continue reading →