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• See the New York Times review of David Lang's the public domain, performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival. (2016-8-15)
• Neil F. Brown is the new music director of The Shrewsbury Chorale. (2016-7-26)
• Gregg Smith, who founded the Gregg Smith Singers in 1955 and was a pioneer of professional choral singing, has died at the age of 84. Read his obituary in The New York Times. (2016-7-18)
• The Dessoff Choirs has annnounced its appointment of Malcolm J. Merriweather as its ninth music director. (2016-5-24)
• Libero Canto, a unique way of teaching singing that originated in Europe and has in recent years established a beachhead in New York, will be holding a series of demonstration lessons in June and July to introduce the approach. See the ad in the Info Exchange for details. (2016-5-5)

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• September 23, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the New Jersey-based Woodbridge Community Choir
• September 22, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the RenChorNY, also known as the Renaissance Chorus of New York.
• September 21, 2016: New link for TakeLessons, offering articles, tips, resources and guides for singing students and teachers.
• August 19, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the New York Youth Chamber Choir.
• August 17, 2016: We've done our periodic clean-up of the Links Collection. As always, send corrections and updates to steve.friedman@van.org.
• August 10, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Fort Washington Community Choir.
• July 18, 2016: New link for Manhattan Holiday Carolers (formerly Definitely Dickens Holiday Carolers), offering premium professional carolers.
• July 14, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the St. John Nepomucene Choir, a volunteer church choir on the Upper East Side.
• July 11, 2016: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Ensemble Companio, a traveling chamber choir that performs throughout the northeast.
• June 24, 2016: New listings for the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer and for the Parish Choir of Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Catherine of Siena, both directed by James D. Wetzel.

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• Looking for rehearsal space or performance venues? Try NYC Music Spaces, part of Fractured Atlas's SpaceFinder NYC database of available rehearsal and performance spaces for instrumental and vocal musicians. You'll find places to rent, from studios to large venues, for classical, jazz, rock--whatever you need to rehearse or perform in NYC.
• Looking for an outstanding vocal ensemble coach? Mark Johnson, possessor of an amazing ear and terrific interpretive insights in a variety of styles, is available to coach your group. To arrange for Mark's services, e-mail Colette Thompson.
• Liz Fleischer's Sight-Singing Program is offered each season at the Kaufman Center (129 West 67th Street). Classes include ear-training, rhythm and pitch reading, music theory, basic notation and terminology, with emphasis on learning to hold a part with confidence. For more info, visit www.kaufman-center.org/lucyadults_mus_sight.htm, e-mail fleischerliz@aol.com or adultdivision@kaufman-center.org or call (212) 501-3362. The sight-singing program is just one of the classes offered by the Kaufman Center's Lucy Moses School.

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The Dessoff Choirs, Grace Church Choral Society, The West Village Chorale

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Big Apple Chorus, The Brooklyn Community Chorus, The Brooklyn Contemporary Chorus, The Canby Singers, The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Dalton Chorale, Florilegium Chamber Choir, Greenwich Village Chamber Singers, Riverside Choral Society, St. George's Choral Society, Schola Cantorum on Hudson, The Stonewall Chorale

Americas Vocal Ensemble, AmorArtis, The Babylon Chorale, C4: The World's First Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, Cantabile Chamber Chorale, Cerddorion, Chorus 802, Christ Church Choir, Douglas Frank Chorale, Down Town Glee Club, Greater Nassau Chorus, Lehman College and Community Chorus, New Amsterdam Singers, The New Choral Society, New York Choral Society, Nikolai Kachanov Singers, The Peace of Heart Choir, Renaissance Street Singers, Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, Riverdale Choral Society, Russian Chamber Chorus of New York, Sacrum Convivium, St. James' Compostela Choir, St. Paul's Englewood, Sing We Enchanted, Uncommon Chord, Voices of New York, Women Singing

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