The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-14
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 City Sing For Rochester"
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 yEzaak do you snaaR of the Com- enunity Chorus7.' I asked of the mar row-cnesteA e4xi who was giving me the Anlsh1ng touches of a shampoo.
 oh love lts's she replied 1t's such eaAna'.
 Her voice was so vibrant W4&A joy 3ha& glanced at the nairror ba3Ure me ana saw In the girls face such a 1ransfiguratlon as may be wrought in thousands of OUT peOple-rieh and poor aIike-wlaose souls have found opportunity for emotional expression coupled with a passion for service
 Everybody Can Sing
 There have been many oosnNaAnAty cnorusas tthere is no patent on the nane0 from the ols-t1Yne singing school to the peoples choruses of many times and places but the Com rnuu1ty Chorus of Rochester N. r.. of organization since 1t Is founded on tho idea that any large group of peO- pie can sing and sing we'll
 Because of a belief in the close re- 3ation between the healthy expre ssion sf emotion and the prosperity of a only two of whom were musioiasns, met at the Rochester Memorial Art fsallery, early in 1914. to discuss ways And means for crowning the c5ty's material advance with some form of artistic expression
 One member of the group. a visitor, was trained singer, Harry Barn hart Since he had had wide expert ence in producing a. high order of musical art, 1t was decided to ask him and his .fanai1y to make Rochester their home and to help bring o pass the dreams of these idealists-
 MT Barnhart, deIiberateav 5rsak- ing the life and aims of tn A1usacal artist, entered enthusdast F ty into fAs work of 1aunching a fF Annuity aorus. With the peruaiss a sof the mayor he appeared upon t platform sAraa Sunday band concert ha1 spring And during the ixtaEnaissiC on. the hnge aadfence astonishad itself by Joining it's many voices in song
 he idea took root Atl once that Just anybody could Ang And when the people were asked to become charter member Of a chorus thirty eight so
 eniffed their intentaon to sing for Rochestetr.s' They sang so marvel oalsIy we'll that in hort time the membership ran into the hundreds The director WAS paid no salary there were no dues and no trying of voices If you wished to have a happy lime singing with . group of people dofng The same thing why you just put asour name down and joined n you wished to own your own music y9u could buy it at low price ana take 1t hohnes
 se The First sing Fest
 The first public appearance Of the 6so1nrnunity Chorus in RochesteT was n the spring Of last year, after tyye months of weekly rehearzalls Is The aaad the outside attractions many, the audie ence was small But did the one hundred and eighty singers care Not they. They loved to sing and sing they did, with wonderful attack enuneiation and artistic expression- As was printed on the programs, the object of the chorus was '-vhe devel- cp1nent of the spirit of song and good Fellowship and to place Rochester in the lead among cities in civic sing
 Following close upon it's first com cert the chorus started on a series of out cor siT1gs-each a festival with all the contagious goodfe1lows1aip, kfndIiness and hunnor of Its director Out on the Pinnacle HIl, after a ricnic supper; the chorus and it's friends sent floating to the valley be- low the inspiring messaEe from the heights
 Soon invftatl oas began to sdeseend upon the chorus. Now it was a n in s7tation to sing on the bea utiful lawn of oneso of it's members Then the chorus was asked to sing on the grounds of the orphan asy1Hm with
 waterneIon treat thrown in-
 If there is any civic function which needs little good music the chorus offers its services A picked sixty ia- Tustrafed- the talk given by Arthur Fa1-welI supervisor of municipa1 rfisic in New York city, at a meet E of the Rochester City Lunch club. TAe Ora fHundredth AnniyersazY of he Star Spang1ed Banner ceIehr ated fg the Grand Army of the Republic, xas made patriot1ca1Iy thrilling by sae chorus which led the audience in 1snailiar Aseng~
 Opening a Park With Song ss
 At the annual opening of the fssuesee Valley Park, one of the most Spectacular festivals in Rochester the more beautiful still by leading the singing Of the multitudes on the shore ssong the river For more than sixty wears renditions of the Messiah have been given occasionally in Rochester Jy highly trained singers This year the Community Chorus after less than a year for rehearsal and with few experienced must clans among it's Etrnber, gave the great oratorfO with AenaI success.
 fagious in western New York While EAnandaigua has had chorus, un- Sf Judge Thompson for some nine yars and the Ferry Oratorfo Society NsaS organized two years ago. Webster. Warsaw, Wyoming. and Newark have but recently caught it. Together these places have united into the Inter community Sing-fest Association.
 Indeed what is said to be the very rst intercoTnnaunity s1ng-fest was Fxen last spring at Exposition Park Rochester. There the Canandaigua EsEers and the Rochester Com mum iss Chorus Joined in giving g pro- gam which included Mendelssohn's Iy5an of Praise and Rossiniss staba4 Mater. The next day the Perry Gratorio Society and the community ehoruses of Rochester, Webster, War