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The Young Singers of Missouri, a children’s chorus program which has been rehearsing on the Lindenwood College campus for the past eight years, will be starting rehearsal units at Grace Methodist, Waterman and Skinker, this fall. Director of the program is Leona Greenlaw, who is also Director of Music at Grace Methodist, home of the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Music Series. “The decision to inaugurate rehearsal units at Grace came last spring, in conjunction with our performance with the St. Louis Symphony in Puccini’s Turandot,” said Greenlaw. “So many people approached me about Young Singers, wanting their child to have the opportunity to be a part of our program, but unsure about the wisdom of making a commitment to a trip to Lindenwood every week.” Distance has not been a problem for parents of Young Singers in the past.
A look at the roster shows that children have been coming from a 65-mile radius of Lindenwood for years.
In fact, the Young Singers membership has included children from four eastern Missouri counties, as well as western Illinois. “We have always had children from the Wentzville and Wright City area, since we began rehearsals eight years ago,” said Greenlaw.
But now she feels it is time to make the program more accessible to children in the St. Louis area. Plans for the fall term include a wide variety of German repertoire, which will all come together in a presentation of “A German Christmas.” This includes not only the familiar “O Tannenbaum” and “Silent Night,” but also the less familiar classics by Praetorius, Scheidt, Mozart and Haydn. Grace and Lindenwood units of Young Singers will combine for at least two performances in December — one at Grace and one in St. Charles.
If the history of The Young Singers of Missouri program is any indicator, the new St. Louis members will have some special opportunities waiting for them.
The Young Singers of Missouri inaugurated a touring program two years ago, when they went to Romania as Friendship Ambassadors.
This past June, they participated in a three-week concert tour to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, and had a busy sixteen-concert performance schedule. Plans for next year are for a concert tour to Costa Rica and Mexico. Plans are to take the best singers from each group on the annual tours. Goals of The Young Singers of Missouri program are ”to make possible a quality choral experience for young people who love to sing.” Children in grades first through ninth are eligible to audition, and auditions are now being scheduled.
For further information, or to schedule an audition, call Mrs. Greenlaw at 946-4579.
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Young Singers of Missouri in concert. Original caption, The Paper, October 1983, page 8. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1983.
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