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The Children’s Chorus of San Antonio (CCSA) was founded in 1983 by artistic director Marguerite McCormick. The interim Artistic Director is Doreen Rao. The chorus is a non-profit corporation and is composed of over 450 young singers from the San Antonio area and surrounding communities. CCSA’s mission is to bring the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to children throughout the metropolitan area. In addition to presenting its own concert series, CCSA regularly sings with the San Antonio Symphony and San Antonio Mastersingers, and has performed alongside the Texas Bach Choir and the UTSA Choirs and Orchestra, the United States Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants. CCSA has also been featured in the San Antonio Festival, the San Antonio Early Music Festival, Musica San Antonio, and the San Antonio Founders Day Celebration. CCSA has traveled state- and nationwide to places such as Victoria, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Princeton, and New York City. They have been featured in performances at major music education and choral conferences such as the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA), Texas Choral Directors Association (TCDA), and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). The chorus is known globally as well, having collaborated with children’s choirs from the Czech Republic and Germany. CCSA has held numerous summer national and international concert tours. These tours have taken the Chamber Choir (CC) and Youth Chorale (YC) to east- and west-coast North American destinations and to Europe, including England, Scotland, Denmark, Italy, and France. The chorus has performed in venues including the * U. S. Air Force Academy Chapel * Carnegie Hall * the Alamo * the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas * Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York * Cathédral of Notre Dame, Paris * St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. * Other acclaimed performances include a fully staged Baroque opera production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in 1998, and on-air features with NBC-TV’s Today Show and NPR’s Performance Today. In 2014, CCSA became a resident affiliate of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, moving the majority of its performances and collaborations with other arts groups into the Tobin Center. == Philosophy == CCSA believes that (a) all children possess a degree of musical ability and (b) engaging in music promotes a greater degree of achievement artistically, academically and socially. It has been well-documented that “students who participate in music education frequently do better than their peers on many measures of academic achievement such as grade-point averages and standardized tests like the SAT or ACT.”〔Hodges, D.A. and O’Connell. The Impact of Music Education on Academic Achievement. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005.〕 In addition, noted early-childhood researcher Lili Levinowitz cites the following: According to Dr. Thomas Armstrong (1994,5), "Intelligence is galvanized by participation in some kind of culturally valued activity and that the individual's growth in such an activity follows a developmental pattern; each activity has its own time arising in early childhood."〔Levinowitz, L. General Music Today, Music Educators National Conference, 1998.〕 The chorus’s programs augment the opportunities currently available through San Antonio public schools and early childhood programs and increase the San Antonio community’s capacity to develop the entire child. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children’s Chorus of San Antonio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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