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Boston City Singers Awarded $100,000
Dorchester Nonprofit Receives Cummings Foundation Grant BOSTON (May 31)—Boston City Singers is one of 100 local nonprofit organizations to receive a $100,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation’s $100K for 100program. As a Dorchester-based organization, we were chosen during a competitive review process from a total of 597 applications. The grant will be paid over four years. Founded…
Read MoreMilton teen to perform with Boston Pops
Patriot Ledger, May 6, 2018By Patriot Ledger staff Milton teenager Sam Higgins will sing with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall on June 6. Sam, 15, is one of three winners of the 10th annual Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition, a state-wide competition for high school students. They will perform with maestro Keith Lockhart and…
Read MoreVolunteers find unity, purpose at One Boston Day happenings
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter StaffDorchester Reporter — April 18, 2018 Hundreds of volunteers gathered on Sunday at IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester to celebrate One Boston Day, a city-sponsored commemoration of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that seeks to channel the “Boston Strong” ethos into a citywide day of service. Sunday’s event in Dorchester, organized by…
Read MoreCommunity Consulting Teams of Boston Awards a Consulting Project Grant to Boston City Singers
(February 28, 2018 – Dorchester, MA) Community Consulting Teams of Boston (CCT) has selected Boston City Singers as one of its 11 pro bono management consulting projects for 2018. CCT has awarded over 200 consulting grants to Boston-area nonprofits since its inception in 1990, providing an estimated $17 million value. Boston City Singers was chosen…
Read MoreTo Speak Truth To Power: Why Boston Camerata Is Staging An 800-Year-Old Musical Theater Piece
WBUR — January 24, 2017By Keith Powers Feel like your world has been turned upside down? There’s music for that. It’s a long way from the current topsy-turvy politics, to 12th-century clerics reminding the church establishment about the abuse of authority, but the intent remains the same: Speak truth to power. The Boston Camerata, under…
Read MoreSeen & Heard
Nano Interview with Jane Money of Boston City SingersMassachusetts Cultural Council Name: Jane MoneyOrganization: Boston City SingersTitle: Founding Artistic DirectorYears in the Field: 30 What do you do at Boston City Singers?I do pretty much everything! I conduct several of our choirs, including the most advanced, Tour Choir. I enjoy meeting with our donors, creating new arrangements of music…
Read MoreCambridge Community Foundation announces fall grants
Cambridge Chronicle & TAB — December 13, 2016 — Grants addressing a wide range of issues touching the lives of local residents and the Cambridge community as a whole were announced by Cambridge Community Foundation’s board of overseers at its Dec. 7 meeting. One late addition to the list is a $10,000 grant to establish a fund in…
Read MoreBoston City Singer Wins Med School Scholarship
Dorchester Reporter, December 1, 2016 Dorchester native and Boston City Singers alumna Gillian Chase has been awarded a Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship to further her studies at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The scholarship is awarded to medical students based on academic achievement, financial need and a demonstrated interest in the arts. Gillian sang…
Read MoreLexington pianist wins Young Artist Competition
Lexington Minuteman, November 29, 2016 Pianist Khoi Le, 13, of Lexington, under the direction of Richard Pittman, won the New England Philharmonic’s 22nd Young Artist Competition. As the winner, Le will perform the first movement of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Piano Concerto No. 2” in G minor at NEP’s annual Family Concert, to be held at 3…
Read MoreMen and Fellas Tour the British Isles
The Boston Musical IntelligencerOctober 10, 2016by Geoffrey Wieting In this most Celtic of American cities, a program of music from the British Isles makes a logical offering from one of its plethora of choral ensembles. Laden with diverse styles and dialects from a wide range of composers as well as a world premiere, Renaissance Men stepped…
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