Do You Love Choral Singing?

As a choral singer, you make a big investment in time and energy. You spend hours in rehearsal every week, and often extra time at home learning your music. Performing takes still more time.

Here are some thoughts that we hope will increase the return on your investment, both for you and for your chorus or choir. We want to help with questions like these:

How can I improve my choral technique?
What tools are available to help me be more successful as a choral singer?
How can I expand my choral horizons?
What is science learning about choral singing?
How did we get here? How does the history of choral music affect what we do today?
What are other choruses or choirs doing that my group might want to adopt?

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Music with the Masters: Jester Hairston

Stan’s tribute to a great choral arranger, composer and conductor.

Choral Spotlight: Do You Take Requests?

Normally, the conductor chooses what pieces a chorus performs. What happens if the audience chooses? Three choruses found out.

How to Start a Choir . . . in 1786

A choir formed over 200 years ago (and still performing) got its start in a way surprisingly similar to how we organize choirs today.

In the Footsteps…

Singing Fauré’s music in his Paris church was a humbling, transcendent experience.

Tabernacle Choir Achieves Historic Milestone

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square recently aired the 5,000th episode of its weekly series, “Music and the Spoken Word.” What is it like to sing with this remarkable choir?

Music with the Masters: Robert Shaw

Stan describes how this master conductor changed choral singing.

Why Do You Sing?

Choral singers from across the country shared why they sing. How does your motivation and inspiration compare with theirs?