Kansas City Chorale

To bring audiences a rich and diverse repertoire that entertains, educates, provokes, and inspires. The chorale will use its reputation as a world class artistic ensemble to broaden its reach and touch an increasing base of listeners in a wide varienty of socioeconomic, ethnic and georgraphic communities through its performances, broadcasts adn recordings. In additon to direct marketing to specific target audiences, a key element in attracting new and diverse audiences is in our programming. The chorale programs converts each season to reach sepcific segments of the general kansas city audience. Program service accomplishments: a concert in parternship with people to people featuring music from brazil, china, finland, africa, samoa, and japan; milagros de navidad, a holiday concert of latino works; music of jewish traditions; music of ireland; rhythm of life, a concert of native american and western african music; a concert of duke ellington's sacred music.

To provide students and choral instructors the opportunity to rehearse and perform with world class artists. A holiday concert each year features a performance of the chorale with over 200 honor students from high schools across the metro. Working with their teachers, chorale singers prepare the students for rehearsal and performance with the chorale and provice many of them with individual solo performances. This concert exposes young minds to the rigores of marking art with a preofessional chorus and instills respect, self-confidence, discipline and commitment. Conductor charles bruffy provides a program of workshops and performance coaching at schools throughout the nation. We offer a "free at curtain" program, which provides students free admission to any chorale concert ten minutes prior to the start of the concert.