In anticipation of pleasing an audience, we develop a program we think will be engaging, we select a venue of appropriate size and location, and we choose production elements—attire, staging, lighting...

Arts participation occurs against a backdrop of changing leisure patterns and a quicksilver notion in the public psyche of what constitutes an enjoyable evening out. Drawing on a wide range of arts...

Numerous Chorus America member choruses are staging productions that combine choral music with an array of other media and art forms, including film, sound tracks, dance, and even circus acrobatics...

When I first arrived in New York in 1982, there was a woman I knew very slightly who could be spotted at nearly any given Met performance of a Wagner opera. She always sat in the same place—the center...

“The wonderful thing about the amateur chorus,” the conductor Robert Shaw once said, “is that nobody can buy its attendance at rehearsals, or the sweat, eyestrain and fatigue that go along with the...