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The Voice
About The Voice
Chorus America's award-winning quarterly magazine, The Voice, highlights chorus news, artistic initiatives in the choral world, and advice and commentary on the business of running a successful chorus. The Voice is distributed to nearly 2,000 choral leaders throughout North America. It is published in Spring, Summer, and Fall/Winter; ISSN 1074-0805. Browse articles and past issues in the tabs below. Editor, Liza W. Beth
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Latest Voice Issue
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On any given day in any given city, people are gathering together to sing. Some arrive energized; others slip in quietly, carrying stress, loneliness, or fatigue. But within minutes, they...
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Singing Together and Staying Healthy: How Choruses Have Reshaped Their Health and Wellness Practices
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of the choral world and our views of health and wellness in ways we are just beginning to understand. While it was a traumatic...
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People have sung together for as long as we know of. Singing even predates human existence, with evidence suggesting that Neanderthals sang. So how has this art form continued to...
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Music has always been a vehicle for emotion. In choral spaces, we often ask singers to connect deeply to the music being performed. That collective emotional openness is part of...
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Previous Voice Content
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Chorus America polled a number of choral directors and singers about the pros and cons of allowing questions in rehearsal. Their answers shed light on different teaching and learning styles...
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Many choral directors take on administrative responsibility with little formal preparation. Here are strategies to excel in the office and boardroom as well as the concert hall.
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When do partnerships add value and when do they distract from a chorus’s mission? Philadelphia’s venerable Mendelssohn Club explores the spectrum of collaboration, from artistic to administrative.
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As the world celebrates the centenary of this central figure of 20th century classical music, noted scholar John Evans illuminates the power and impact of his great choral-orchestral work.
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It's really the staff's job to position the board to do their best work―and most of that boils down to excellent communication and clarity of expectations.
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The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s education outreach program leads young people into the heart of the creative process
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How chorus leaders can use the principles of organizational culture to implement change and get the best results for their organizations
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This peripatetic Jenny Appleseed of melody continues to traverse the country as a distinguished teacher, coach, conductor, and advocate for words and melody
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DC's "dean" of choral conductors steps down and reflects on a career that spanned a half century in the U.S. capital
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The experience of several professional core choruses demonstrates there are ways to gracefully handle the inherent tension that arises when paid singers are brought on board in a mostly volunteer...
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Adding paid professional singers to a volunteer chorus raises issues of fairness, finances, artistic prowess, and culture. We offer advice for managing the process from those who've been through it.
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Videos play a vital role in advancing the careers of conductors today, both as self-evaluation tools and as a way to easily showcase skills to others. We explore two types...
