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The Kansas City Chorale ((www.kcchorale.org )) is a professional 27-voice chorus conducted by Charles Bruffy. They perform a four concert series in Kansas City, tour nationwide, and perform with their sister choir, the Phoenix Chorale, also conducted by Mr. Bruffy. During his tenure as conductor, the chorus has achieved international acclaim. Mr. Bruffy, renowned for his fresh interpretations of both traditional and new music, was noted by the New York Times as a disciple of the late Robert Shaw.〔James R. Oestreich, "Will the Voices Grow Ever Quieter?; Conductors Ponder the State of Choral Music After Robert Shaw's Death", ''New York Times'' (13 April 1999), http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/13/arts/will-voices-grow-ever-quieter-conductors-ponder-state-choral-music-after-robert.html〕 The Chorale has premiered works by Maija Einfelde, Jean Belmont, Libby Larsen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://libbylarsen.com/index.php?contentID=240&profileID=1071&startRange= )〕 Zhou Long, Stephen Paulus, Steven Stucky, Eric Whitacre, and Chen Yi, among other composers. ==History== The Kansas City Chorale was founded in 1982 by conductor Jonathan Griffith as part of his DMA graduate work at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music. When Mr. Griffith completed his work and moved on, the singers formed a board, hired a new conductor, and continued the choir. Mr. Bruffy began conducting the Chorale in 1988. The choir evolved from its “classy sassy” repertoire and bake sale fundraisers to one of the premiere performing arts organizations in North America. Nimbus Records, based in the United Kingdom, selected the Chorale as its first North American choir. The first album, ''Nativitas'', came out for the holiday season in 1994. Nimbus released four more Chorale recordings over the next four years. The choir performed the world premiere of ''Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine'', a setting of Charles Anthony Silvestri’s poetry by composer Eric Whitacre at the 2001 American Choral Directors Association National Convention. In 2004 the Chorale traveled to Washington, DC to present a concert at the Library of Congress. The Chorale joined forces with the Phoenix Chorale (then named Phoenix Bach Choir) to make a joint recording, ''Eternal Rest'', released on the Chandos Records label in 2006. The combined choirs released two more albums with Chandos the following year. Chandos will release a fourth “two choirs” album in March 2015. The two choirs received international attention when their 2007 Chandos release, Alexander Grechaninov’s ''Passion Week'', received four Grammy nominations and won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical. In 2009, the two choirs performed at Lincoln Center in New York. Later that year, the Chorale sang for the international choir festival at Incheon, South Korea. ''Life and Breath, music of René Clausen'', the Chorale’s 2012 recording on the Chandos label, won two Grammy Awards. One was for Best Choral Performance, the other, Best Engineered Album, Classical. In 2014 the Chorale travelled to Halifax, Nova Scotia to perform at ''Podium'', the Association of Canadian Choral Communities' national conference. They joined with the Phoenix Chorale and recorded the ''All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)'' to be released in March 2015. 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「Kansas City Chorale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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