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Our Links Collection, your gateway to vocal ensemble resources on the web, offers many happy hours of surfing. New York City resources and groups are identified with the [NY] token (remember those?) symbol. Information about New York area choirs can be found in the VAN Choir Directory.
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Resources Information / listings / discussion, Organizations, Music on-line, Ticketing services, Concert producers, Repertoire, Publishing, Festivals, Workshops, Education, Body work, Tools, Other geographies, Travel
Selected Vocal Ensembles The Bobs, Harmonytryx, New York Voices, Take 6, The Western Wind
New York
Area Choirs		 See the VAN Choir Directory: more info than ever about tri-state area choirs.
College
a cappella
and choirs		 Northeast area groups: Harvard Krokodiloes, Yale Spizzwinks(?), Columbia Kingsmen, Skidmore Bandersnatchers, MIT Concert Choir
Around
New York		 CitySearch, New York City Subway Resources, The New York Times, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera
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Resources
Information / listings / discussion

Organizations

Music on-line (buying, listening)

  • Mainely A Cappella, "your one-stop source for CDs, videos, and sheet music related to a cappella and close vocal harmony."  VAN receives a referral fee based on your purchases here.
  • Primarily A Cappella now offers a very wide range of a cappella selections for on-line ordering via their Catalog and Online Buyers Club.
  • Virtual Voices, on-line product fulfillment service serving the a cappella community
  • cdstreet, selling music goods online through their own superstore and/or by e-commerce enabling your own  website
  • FindUsedCDs.com, a used CD comparison shopping site.
  • Town Crier Recordings, home for The Real Group and Vox P
  • earBuzz.com, read reviews, download samples and buy CDs of music by independent artists
  • A Cappella Radio International (ARI), "the worldwide showcase of the human voice," produced by CASA, sponsored by SPEBSQSA
  • The Applause Show, hosted by Rich Taylor and Rich Pearson, Thursday nights from 6:30-11:00 PM on WVRM in Montclair, NJ, 1620 AM, 91.9 FM or Comcast Cable channel 34 or at www.villageradio.com
  • A Cappella Always, all a cappella Internet radio station.
  • Hear the Choirs Sing, a web directory of sites that play choral music clips in Real Audio format
  • Global Music Network, "the best of classical music, jazz and opera on the internet"
  • California Throatsinger, Martyn St. Michael's mp3.com site of harmonic and throat singing clips
  • Cantolopera, "The Virtual Opera House"
  • [NY]Music Memorabilia, records, sheet music, photographs, books, magazines, posters from the 1800s to the 1980s
  • Tara Publications, Jewish recordings, music books, books, software
  • Vox Novus, "the new voice in contemporary music", sponsoring and encouraging new music
Ticketing services
  • Vendini, provider of online ticketing solutions for small to medium sized organizations

Concert producers

  • [NY]Music Before 1800 Productions, based at Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street
  • [NY]MidAmerica Productions, producer of Carnegie Hall concerts featuring choirs from around the world
  • StARS (St. Adalbert Recital Series), based at St. Adalbert's Church in Elizabeth, NJ
  • [NY]Haystack Needle, run by Townsend Belisle
  • [NY]Manhattan Concert Productions, offers distinctive workshop and performance opportunities in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Hawaii, Italy, Germany and Scotland to deserving musicians worldwide.

Repertoire

Publishing

Festivals

Workshops

Education

  • [NY]New York Opera Forum, "gives classically trained singers the opportunity to learn and perform standard operatic repertoire in the original languages."
  • Vocal Power School
  • National Association of Teachers of Singing
  • aLesson, where pupils and instructors (in voice and other subjects) can find each other
  • Singers Forum, "New York's premiere vocal academy"
  • Anyone Can Sing, Audrey Hunt's vocal training and coaching site
  • The Art of Body Singing, Breck Alan's complete vocal instruction system for beginners to professionals. teaching singers how the mechanics of "the voice" work
  • An Introduction to Singing, online course with instructor Kristen Widenmaier
  • Tipbook Vocals, "a handy, accessible, thorough and convenient guide to the vocal instrument, written in close collaboration with classical and non-classical singers and teachers, therapists and other experts."
  • American Singers' Opera Project, provides training for the American singer who is ready to embark on a professional career; directed by Nancy Stokes-Milnes
  • [NY]The New York Continuo Collective, concentrates on the study and performance of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque with an emphasis on improvised realization of accompaniment from figured bass.

Body work

Tools

Other geographies

Travel
  • Choral Group Travel, a specialty of American Tours & Travel
  • Concept Tours, arranges performance tours to Europe, South America and Asia for American performing groups
  • Target Travel, specializes in choir tours to Italy and Europe
  • Friendship Ambassadors, providers of specialized performance tours
  • ZefiroWorld Tours, Italian choir concert tour operator specializing in events, international festivals and custom concert tours
Selected Vocal Ensembles
College a cappella groups and choirs in the Northeast
Around New York
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Revision Date: February 22, 2008.
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