WHY CHORUSES MATTER

“To sing like this, in the company of other souls, and to make those consonants slip out so easily and in unison, and to make those chords so rich that they bring tears to your eyes.    This is transcendence.    This is the power that choral singing has that other music can only dream of.” -Garrison Keillor

“A boy learns many things besides music, which when added to his other studies, begin to help him understand his academic work in a different light.  There is a new approach to history, geography, arithmetic, in addition to a keener sense of all that is about him in his everyday world.  One of the greatest advantages gained is an ability to concentrate and to discipline both mind and body.” -George Bragg

“There is perhaps no greater time-honored tradition than that of the boys choir.  For over seventeen hundred years this ancient institution has continued to exemplify one of the finest methods of educating a boy during his formative years.” -Unknown

The National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 showed that music participants received more academic awards and the percentage of music participants receiving As, and Bs was higher than non-participants receiving those grades. –US Dept. of Education