Choral Stream

Minnesota based choral director Dale Warland is the 2021 recipient of the American Prize National Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Join Julie Amacher for an hour of traditional, patriotic choral music performed by the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.

Watch and listen as 12 Twin Cities choral organizations present Voices Rising: A Choral Affirmation of Black Lives. The event on Wednesday night was the opening-night concert of Chorus America’s 2021 Summer Conference.

What does it mean to be a man? How do we define "masculinity" in these rapidly changing times? And what values to fathers want to pass on to their sons today? Join host Steve Seel and Cantus for the special program Brave, which seeks to answer these questions through music and words.

Join Cantus for Fields of Wonder, a special program that explores the relationship between composers and the poets whose words they set to music.

A Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal early last year became a deadly COVID-19 superspreader event. Now, the group is figuring out how to come back together and reforge the bonds of a community choir.

Listen as Cantus performs three rare, early-American hymns during a recent recording session with YourClassical MPR at Central Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul.

Listen as Border CrosSing performs three rare, early-American hymns during a recent recording session with YourClassical MPR at Central Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul.

We’re taking time to reflect on the way classical music has been an outlet for grief, anger and frustration after the murder of George Floyd, as well as a source of solace and joy, uplifting Black voices and art. Watch a stunning performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by the Clark Atlanta University Philharmonic Society.

Composer Christopher Tin has joined ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ director Jon Chu to create a public service announcement to help spread awareness for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Please find out more about their work, along with Tin’s major choral project from a 2021 interview.