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September is here, and that means it's time to audition for your local choral group.  I'll give you a list of those choruses that have made enough noise about their auditions to get my attention, but of course there may be a few more more across this great land gearing up for the fall season.  In many cases, they pay double for male singers.  (That's a joke, people.  Well, in most cases it is.)

In the Ann Arbor area we have The Cantata Singers, the Choral Union, and (for men only) Measure For Measure.

Coro Stella Maris sings music, early and late, in Gloucester, MA.  River City Chorale is on the other side of the country, in Sacramento, CA, as is the Peninsula Women's Chorus of Palo Alto (who I hear is looking for women) and also Harmonia, in L.A., with two choirs to choose from, big and small. The Fairfax Choral Society, of the D.C. area, has several choirs, but it's getting late, so contact them soon.  The New York Catholic Chorale is, well, Catholic, but open to all kinds of singers.  Meanwhile, up the Hudson River we find The New Choral Society.  (So what was wrong with the old one?)  Over east of there we find The Concord Chorus, a big choir performing major works.  (What, another choir in the Boston area?  I was told Boston had no choirs.  They also said it's not a big college town.)

UPDATE: Gotta add the San Francisco Lyric Chorus to the list.  Also the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut; they're performing RVW's Sea Symphony just four days after the Choral Union of Ann Arbor.  The tide is coming in for one of my favorite choral blockbusters!