{"id":59162,"date":"2019-07-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59162"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:20:26","slug":"auditions-for-brock-university-choirs-begin-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/07\/auditions-for-brock-university-choirs-begin-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditions for Brock University Choirs begin in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singers across campus and in the Niagara community are encouraged to warm up their pipes as Brock\u2019s Department of Music searches for new voices to join its established choirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the Brock University Chamber Choir and Women\u2019s Choir are open by audition to all Brock students, staff and faculty, and the Women\u2019s Choir is also open to members of the broader Niagara community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock students who successfully audition can also enrol in choir for academic credit, if they so choose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choirs will once again be led by Conductor Rachel Rensink-Hoff and auditions will begin in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previous singing experience and the ability to read music is required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All singers accepted into the choir are expected to attend all rehearsals and performances throughout the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rehearsals begin the week of Sept. 10 in preparation for concerts throughout the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chamber Choir rehearses Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 4:20 p.m. and the Women\u2019s Choir rehearses Thursdays from 6 to 8:45 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/miwsfpa\/music\/sing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Department of Music\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to register for an audition time or to learn more about Brock&#8217;s choirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about the audition process, please contact Rensink-Hoff at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:rrensinkhoff@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rrensinkhoff@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or the Music Department at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:music@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">music@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singers across campus and in the Niagara community are encouraged to warm up their pipes as Brock\u2019s Department of Music searches for new voices to join its established choirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":59163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,7,3319,37,1,4],"tags":[8071,6053,8072,549,5982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59166,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162\/revisions\/59166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}