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2 unusual facts about Peninsula Women's Chorus


Peninsula Women's Chorus

In 1966, after a decade of involvement with local musical ensembles, Marjorie Rawlins of Palo Alto founded the American Association of University Women Midpeninsula Chorus, with 17 members.

The Peninsula Women's Chorus is an award-winning female choir based at Palo Alto, California.


Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus

The AGMC has also performed joint concerts with several special guests, including the Derivative Duo (Seattle, Washington) in 1995, Dr. Maya Angelou in 1998, and the Atlanta Ballet in 1999.

Betwixt!

The cast also included the London Gay Men's Chorus as "The Taravatanians" and an ensemble provided by Arts Ed drama school.

Boston Children's Chorus

In 2013, BCC was awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards by First Lady Michelle Obama for its exemplary after school youth arts program.

Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus

The Chorus has performed with guest artists such as George Howe, Mark Hardy, Tommy Femia, Julie Halston, and Julie Wilson, and has given joint performances with Another Octave/Connecticut Women’s Chorus, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Baltimore Gay Men’s Chorus.

Conor Mitchell

In 2012, he was commissioned by the London Gay Men's Chorus for a piece to mark the choir's 21st anniversary.

David Conte

Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the Golden Gate Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony.

Diverse Harmony

In 2005, Seattle's pride week theme was “The Courage to Love,” and Diverse Harmony again performed, sharing the stage with the Seattle Men's Chorus and the Seattle Women’s Chorus.

Don Cossack Choir

The Don Cossack Choir of Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Russian Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him.

Eleanor Joanne Daley

In her native Canada, she has composed for numerous ensembles including the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Toronto Children's Chorus, the Amabile Youth Singers, St. Mary's Children's Choir, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver Men's Chorus and the Victoria Scholars.

Folly Theater

It hosts the Harriman-Jewell Series of classical performers, the Friends of Chamber Music series, and the Heartland Men's Chorus.

LACC

Los Angeles Children's Chorus, a community children's choir for girls and boys with unchanged voices from the Los Angeles area ranging from ages 8 to 17

Pacific Center for Human Growth

The Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus was founded under the auspices of the Pacific Centre in 1999 before becoming an independent organization.

Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus

Three years later, PGMC performed for the first time at the historic Academy of Music along with "HeartStrings," a national AIDS benefit concert tour that featured Sandy Duncan and Jason Bateman.

Seattle Men's Chorus

SMC perform several regularly scheduled concerts each year, regularly hosting celebrity guests such as Kathy Najimy, Kelli O'Hara, Betty Buckley and Debbie Reynolds, to name but a few.

When I Kissed the Teacher

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus recorded a cover of the song for their 1997 album ExtrABBAganza!.


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