i always forget this. we've sung south african gospel songs in three languages so far: zulu, xhosa, and sotho.

When: Friday, March 6, 2015 7:00-8:30 p.m ( Read more... )

i first sang the messiah with uchorus (which is the first time i sang the messiah, except for the hallelujah chorus which i first sang in seventh grade) fall quarter, 1998. since then, i have sung it every year with at least one group (one year i did the DIY, but not with uchorus). which means that this year will be the 16th time i have sung the ( Read more... )

previous years they didn't go on sale until november, but this year we will have two concerts and tickets are on sale already! the information ( Read more... )

i think i will be easy to spot, for once, but anyway, i am on the third riser from the top about five women from the stage right, audience left end. so the best place to sit and see me is in the audience right half of the house but i think i should be visible from almost anywhere since for once there is no organ in front of me. (fine, fine, make ( Read more... )

chicago people, here's the program for our march 4th concert--i would love it if you can come to this--i can't tell you how much fun we're having singing all this great music ( Read more... )

once again, the uchorus spring concert will be memorial day weekend, thereby conflicting with wiscon. *sigh ( Read more... )

apparently there are recordings of a lot of our stuff, available here:

http://www.archive.org/details/uso20040604

(that will take you to the last time that we sang the stravinsky, but it's easy enough to hunt around from there.)

but this gives you the setting--a few seconds of the hallelujah chorus from last friday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvm7i5XJ7L4&feature=youtu.be

...is that the brahms requiem concert went really well ( Read more... )