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Stonewall offers "C'est Magnifique" on December 7
Posted 11/15/2024
On December 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM, The Stonewall
Chorale will perform its winter concert, "C'est Magnifique" featuring
works by Francis Poulenc, Antonio Vivaldi, Gabriel Fauré and others at Holy
Apostles, 296 9th Avenue, New York, NY.
The Stonewall Chorale was the nation's first
gay and lesbian choir and welcomes singers of all backgrounds who identify as
LGBTQ+. As it kicks off its 48th season, join The Stonewall Chorale for a
concert that blends the traditional and the innovative in classical music.
"C'est Magnifique" includes the two
major works by Poulenc and Vivaldi as well as shorter pieces by Fauré and
Poulenc.
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Melodia presents "She Sang the Stars"
Posted 11/4/2024
Melodia Women's Choir is thrilled to announce its
upcoming fall concert, "She Sang the Stars," scheduled to take place live on Saturday,
November 16, 2024, at 7:30 PM at the Holy Apostles Church in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The event will
also be available for free virtual broadcast on Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 7:00 PM (ET)
via YouTube.
As a champion of female works, Melodia has curated a program with songs that celebrate the
dynamic journey of womanhood.
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- November 4, 2024: VAN milestone: just entered the 20,000th listing into our concert database that dates back to January 1998.
- October 10, 2024: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Liederkranz Chorus on the Upper East Side.
- September 30, 2024: Curious about how we prefer to format bits of information on the Vocal Area Network website? See our new VAN Style Guide.
- September 27, 2024: New link for Dorico, music notation software from Steinberg, recommended as a successor to Finale. New link for Schubertline, an online digital database of downloadable and printable art songs by major composers.
- September 6, 2024: We've combined the duplicate listings for the
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- August 23, 2024: New Choir Directory listing for Re:Soundings -- A Choral Music Project, a 16-voice professional ensemble directed by Stephen Sands focused on creating a new concert-going experience by dispersing singers throughout the performance space.
- August 20, 2024: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the St. Luke's Episcopal Church Senior Choir in Montclair, NJ.
- July 30, 2024: We've resolved a coding issue with our VCS file generator so that downloading calendar listings (by clicking the "D" icon to the left of the listing) should now work reliably, even if the month of the event has only one digit.
- May 7, 2024: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Everybody Sing (Canti Tutti), a new group based at Columbia University that's open to all -- no auditions, no fees.
- April 5, 2024: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Westchester Gilbert & Sullivan Group, an informal group meeting monthly to perform G&S operettas.
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