• Amuse offers Villa-Lobos Mass (Posted 6/6/2010)
• Hoboken women's choir brings the world to New York area (Posted 5/20/2010)
• Two New York choruses collaborate to perform Russian masterpiece (Posted 4/30/2010)
• Works of international composers to premiere at Fourth Festival of Universal Sacred Music in Manhattan, April 24-25, 2010 (Posted 4/17/2010)
• New York Choral Society takes Mahler to Mexico (Posted 4/3/2010)

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• Cerddorion has selected James A. John as the ensemble's new artistic director. (2010-7-28)
• Julian Wachner has been named Director of Music and the Arts for Trinity Wall Street, the historic Episcopal parish in Lower Manhattan. Wachner will oversee all liturgical, professional and community music and arts programming at Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel. For more information, visit www.trinitywallstreet.org/news/articles/julian-j-wachner-named-director-of-music-and-the-arts. (2010-7-20)
• Cantori New York is the 2010 recipient of Chorus America/ASCAP's prestigious Adventurous Programming Award. The award "recognizes choruses that demonstrate a commitment to performances of choral music written in the last 25 years." Cantori is receiving this award in recognition of its 2008-2009 season and is one of only three non-professional choruses in the United States (and the only chorus east of California) to have received the Adventurous Programming Award three times. ASCAP also honored Cantori in 1997 and 2000. (2010-7-7)
• Schola Cantorum on Hudson has announced that Andrew P. Jones has been elected chair of the board of directors and that Scott Pollack has been elected a director, both effective July 1, 2010. (2010-7-1)
• Central City Chorus has appointed Phillip Cheah as music director the 2010-2011 30th anniversary season. (2010-7-1)

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• July 28, 2010: Several new Choir Directory listings and new ads on the Choir Auditions page for groups run by the Continuo Arts Foundation serving central New Jersey, along with a new listing in the Links Collection.
• July 21, 2010: New link for Betterfly.com Vocal/Singing page, a resource to connect with vocal coaches.
• July 14, 2010: New link for MusiciansWay.com, a site offering extensive free resources that help musicians succeed.
• July 13, 2010: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for A+ Jubliee Youth Chorale, based in Chinatown.
• June 26, 2010: The Westport Madrigal Singers are now known as the Southern Connecticut Camerata.
• June 17, 2010: New Choir Directory entries: a listing for The Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys and a listing for The Cathedral Girls' Choir, both based at The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, NY.
• May 14, 2010: New Choir Auditions ad for Khorikos.
• May 5, 2010: New Choir Directory listing for Makhelat Hamercaz, a Jewish community choir in Highland Park, NJ.
• April 25, 2010: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for The Pelham Larks, a women's ensemble in Pelham, NY.
• April 11, 2010: New link for ThatNewMusicLibary.com, a database of unpublished choral scores, hand-picked by Harold Rosenbaum and viewable in their entirety. New Choir Directory listing for Singers of Long Island (SOLI), a Sayville-based chamber ensemble.

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• 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.