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Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, [2] who sang with the group until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from AIDS in 1997. [3] As a graduate student of musicology, Botto found that much of the medieval and Renaissance music he was studying was not being performed, and, because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male ensemble, as ...
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses [1] and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement. [2] The chorus was founded by gay music pioneer Jon Reed Sims. The group does not require that members identify as gay, bisexual, or male.
Alber was a member of the Grammy-award-winning all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer from 1998 until 2003 when he left to pursue a solo career. Alber released his first album, Nonchalant, in 2005. It was co-produced with Jeff Crerie at Utmosis Studios in San Francisco.
"A Message From the Gay Community," performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) and posted to YouTube last week, starts out defiantly: "You think we're sinful, you fight against our ...
Frank Scott Albinder is a conductor of male choral music.A former director of Chanticleer, Albinder currently conducts the Washington Men's Camerata, the Woodley Ensemble, and the Virginia Glee Club, and is president of Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, Inc., a national association of men's choruses.
Cantus is the only artist-led full-time vocal ensemble in the United States, and is one of two professional classical male vocal ensembles in the United States that pays its artists full-time salaries, while maintaining a year-round schedule of performances, the other being San Francisco's Chanticleer.
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He is also former artistic director of the Victoria Bach Festival and in 1998-1999 was the artistic director of Chanticleer, [7] the second person to hold that position (after founder Louis Botto). [4] In January 2001, Johnson was named director of the Houston Masterworks Chorus, a position he held for two years. [8]