Collegiate Chorale

The Collegiate Chorale is a symphonic choir based in New York City, USA. It was founded in 1941 by Robert Shaw, who was later to found the professional Robert Shaw Chorale. The Collegiate Chorale continues to give several performances annually in Carnegie Hall and other major venues. In July 2007 the Collegiate Chorale was invited to perform Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem at Switzerland's Verbier Festival. Robert Bass was its music director from 1980 until his death in August, 2008.

The Chorale was named for its first home, Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, and was notable for Robert Shaw's insistence, from its inception, that the group be racially integrated--a radical stance in 1941.

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The Collegiate Chorale

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