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Journal of GM 9 30 2020

Journal of Gospel Music

September 30, 2020
Chicagoan Lonnie Norwood Jr. Teaches “The Gospel Essentials” to Youth Nationwide

Earlier this year, the Chicago Children’s Choir was busy coordinating some 5,000 youth meeting in various in-school and after-school ensembles throughout the region.

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WBEZ Chicago

June 18, 2020
Chicago Children’s Choir Celebrates Juneteenth Virtually

Reset checks in with the Chicago Children’s Choir to discuss their June 19, 2020 virtual call-to-action in honor of Juneteenth and Black Lives Matter.

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Fox32 Chicago

June 18, 2020
Chicago Children’s Choir to hold virtual Juneteenth concert

Their beautiful voices echo throughout Chicagoland and now, the Chicago Children's Choir and honored alumni will be presenting a free live stream concert to honor Juneteenth. Choir alumnus Michael Preacely talks about it.

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Chicago Crusader

June 15, 2020
Chicago Children’s Choir honors Juneteenth with virtual concert

Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC), a nationally recognized nonprofit founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, announces “A New Freedom: Black Voices Honoring Juneteenth in a Time of Struggle,” a free virtual concert of music and spoken word in honor of Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, at 6:00 p.m.

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WTTW

June 10, 2020
Chicago’s ‘Year of Music’ Goes Virtual

Check out offerings from the Chicago Children’s Choir and a new Millennium Park at Home series.

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Chicago Tribune

May 19, 2020
Chicago Children’s Choir concert goes virtual for Paint the Town Red: ‘This is an opportunity for us to share our love and passion for the arts’

The phrase “paint the town red” may lack a certain luster these days with the pandemic curbing our ability to go out. But the Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC) is not letting COVID-19 stem their annual concert celebration of the same name.

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Chicago Crusader

May 11, 2020
CCC spreads joyous message via virtual concert

For 10 years, the beloved Chicago Children’s Choir, the nationally recognized non-profit organization that inspires youth to become global citizens through music, has hosted its popular free “Paint the Town Red” concert celebration at Millennium Park, featuring some 5,000 young singers from all Chicago zip codes, alongside special guest artists.

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Chicago Tribune

May 5, 2020
Review: A Ravinia production of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ to be broadcast on PBS’ ‘Great Performances’

The TV production’s subtitles also help considerably, enabling listeners to decode the avalanche of sound coming from Vocality and the Chicago Children’s Choir, sensitively directed by Josephine Lee.

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Chicago Tribune

February 7, 2020
Chicago Children’s Choir’s Black History free concert series to focus on African Americans, the vote and giving voice to the legacy of struggle

The rehearsal, led by their conductor Lonnie Norwood Jr., was one of the last before the group participates in the Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC) annual Black History Month concert at Symphony Center.

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Chicago Tribune

November 10, 2019
Grammy winner credits Chicago Children’s Choir with teaching him 'the power of raising your voice’; benefit brings in $1.5 million

The Chicago Children’s Choir hosted Red Jacket Optional, its signature fundraiser, Oct. 18 at The Geraghty.

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Chicago Tribune

November 3, 2019
Lyric Opera review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ powerfully probes guilt and redemption

The Chicago Children’s Choir, under the direction of Josephine Lee, brought much-needed rays of sunlight to this story.

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WTTW

July 29, 2019
Ravinia Festival Pulls Out All the Stops in Celebration of Leonard Bernstein

The first concert, on Friday night, brought together 398 instrumentalists and vocalists (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Children’s Choir and eight operatic soloists), for a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (hyperbolically subtitled “Symphony of a Thousand”).

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