Bahamas National Youth Choir Are Participants in 2012 World Choir Games
The world’s largest choral competition will have its American premiere in Cincinnati this summer, when the World Choir Games comes to town on July 4-14. More than 360 choirs from
48 countries have registered to participate in this year’s event, which
has previously been held in Austria, China, Germany, South Korea, and
elsewhere. With 23 competitive categories that encompass a vast range of
choral genres, the World Choir Games is one
of the world’s largest musical competitions, and will attract thousands
of participants and attendees to Cincinnati.
The
selection of Cincinnati as the site of the seventh biennial World Choir
Games has drawn attention to the city’s historic reputation as an
important regional center for
choral music. This tradition is evident in the Cincinnati May Festival,
a two-week choral celebration that dates back to the 1840s, and is the
oldest annual choral festival in the Western hemisphere. The May
Festival emerged from Cincinnati’s tradition of
hosting Saengerfests, large-scale choral competitions that were produced by the city’s German immigrant community throughout the 19th century. The Festival is held in the Cincinnati Music Hall, a historic Venetian Gothic building constructed
in1878 specifically for the event.
A. J. Fox
Assistant Account Executive
Resnicow Schroeder Associates
1995 Broadway, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10023
Assistant Account Executive
Resnicow Schroeder Associates
1995 Broadway, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10023
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