Site Seeing Special

Choirs and choral music

with KEITH BRAMICH

San Francisco Bay Area Choral Archive

Helene Whitson and Valerie Howard, compilers of the SF Bay Chorus Directory, are working on a project to provide current and historical information about choral activity in the area. The project's umbrella website contains the Chorus Directory and information about the Historical Archive and support services, and is at www.choralarchive.org .

Charlotte Choral Society and the Continued Growth Committee

Bruce Dalton, a member of the board of directors of the Charlotte Choral Society who directs the society's Continued Growth Committee, is seeking marketing ideas which might help the choir to increase community awareness, audience numbers and choir membership. The society would also like comments on their new webpage at www.charlottechoralsociety.org.

Swanhurst Chorus

The Swanhurst Chorus (a mixed group of 50-75 singers from Newport, RI, USA) has a new website at www.swanhurst.org. Includes details of A Newport Triptych - their first professionally recorded CD.

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Paul Salamundovich's Los Angeles Master Chorale has a fairly comprehensive web-presence at www.lamc.org.

ACDA

The American Choral Directors Association publish The Choral Journal. Details at http://www.acdaonline.org/.

Sheet music and black folders

ChoralWeb publishing is a music publisher with facilities to sell choral music online, with immediate downloads from their website at www.choralweb.com . Whilst at their site, you'll see an advert for www.musicfolder.com who sell 'the black folder'! Handlo music sell choral sheet music but deliver by email, for output to your computer's printer. See www.handlo.com.

Tygerberg, South Africa

Formerly known as the Bellville Civic Choir, the City of Tygerberg Choir is a South African choir of about 140 members, active in making international contacts and organising tours abroad. Their director is Edward Aitchison (Lecturer in Music Education at the University of Stellenbosch). Tygerberg Choir's webmaster Reanie Janse van Vuuren invites you to visit members.tripod.com/~TygerbergCivicChoir/

The Ultimate Stabat Mater Website

Hans van der Velden and Hannie van Osnabrugge from the Netherlands have been busy with a CD collection of (currently) 84 different Stabat Maters. You'll find information on the composers, the music and the texts, and translations of the Stabat Mater Dolorosa in twelve languages at ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/HvanderVelden/.

British Choirs on the net

All known British choral websites are listed here at choral singer Rod Cuff's British Choirs on the Net. Follow the links at the bottom of the page for similar sites listing French, German and Italian choirs.

The Classical Singer

We've visited The Classical Singer magazine before at Site Seeing. You can visit some of the areas of the Classical Singer Community at www.classicalsinger.com for free, but you must subscribe to read the on-line version of the magazine.

Ron Hannah

Ron Hannah invites you to www.connect.ab.ca/~cent4lit/ron to sample some of his choral compositions.

Reference sites

ChoralNet Inc. - the most comprehensive choral resource on the web at www.choralnet.org

Mike Chadwick's www.choirpros.org is a source for listings of available singers, accompanists, organists, and now conductors too.

The Musica International Database of choral repertoire is at
www.musicanet.org

The Choral Public Domain Library has over 300 scores available
for free download in PDF format at www.cpdl.org

The Choir and Choral Music webring is at www.webmusic.se/ring

Choral music sites at Yahoo

Newsgroups and mailing lists: Vocalist is an international discussion list for singing professionals and amateurs. rec.music.makers.choral is where choral people meet on usenet.

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