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• Sing New York! is looking for a new work to feature at its next Big Sing in June 2012. For details, see the ad in the Info Exchange. The application deadline for composers vetted by Project Encore is December 1; for others, it's October 15. (2011-10-4)
• Noah Glynn has been appointed sixth artistic director of the Greater New Haven Community Chorus. (2011-10-2)
• Francisco Núñez, founder and conductor of the Young People's Chorus of New York, is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award." See the article in The New York Times. (2011-9-20)
• The Requiem Project on Q2 Music (part of Classical 105.9 FM WQXR) will commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. To participate, visit www.wqxr.org/series/q2s-requiem-project/. See more details in the Info Exchange. (2011-8-25)
• Mark Shapiro has been named Music Director of The St. Cecilia Chorus. Shapiro succeeds St. Cecilia's previous Music Director, David Randolph, who died in 2010 after leading the chorus for 45 years. (2011-7-22)

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• October 29, 2011: New links for Artist Travel Consultants and Distinguished Concerts International, New York.
• October 4, 2011: New Choir Directory listing for The Princeton Garden Statesmen, a male barbershop chorus in Plainsboro, NJ.
• October 2, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the The Schola Cantorum of St. Michael's RC Church on West 34th Street.
• September 30, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Saint Athanasius Church Choir in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
• September 25, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Westfield Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir in Westfield, NJ.
• September 21, 2011: New link for TRYST, a vocal duo featuring Nora Ryan and Michelle O'Rourke "where tradition meets innovation in adventurous vocal music."
• September 12, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for The SymphoNYChorus, a Manhattan-based choir and orchestra.
• September 7, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the West End Collegiate Choir, a professional and volunteer church choir directed by Cynthia Powell. New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Musicocity, a Manhattan-based show choir. New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for The New Carillon Ensemble, a vocal and instrumental ensemble based in Chelsea.
• August 31, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Youth Pride Chorus, based in Manhattan.
• August 30, 2011: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Crescent Choral Society, an SATB choir in Central New Jersey.

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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.

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