Other Groups Named AD HOC
- The Ad Hoc Singers of St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) will be singing several noon recital programs:
- Music of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur featuring music of Bloch and Berlinski on Sept 25, 2009.
- Music for Christmas featuring music of Pierre Villette and Charles Tournemire on Dec 11, 2009.
- Celebrating Black History Month with unfamiliar and familiar spirituals sung and played on Feb 19, 2010.
- Celebrating Spring with Jqazz featuring the Gunnison Memorial Chapel Organ on April 23, 2010.
- They also sang a lunchtime concert Dec 12, 2008, with video clips online of Personent Hodie and I Sing Of A Maiden.
- And they sang at a Pipe organ concert, 8 pm, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009.
- Mystic, Connecticut's Old Mystic Village Village Events Festival of Lights on 4:30 pm Friday, Dec 11, [2009?] will have Ad Hoc Singers.
- Ad Hoc Singers at a recital of choral and guitar pieces Oct 10, 1999 at the Katonah, NY Village Library.
- A potential group of protest singers in Cambridge, MA (April 2004).
- The Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH had an "Ad Hoc Pick Up Choir" for the 6:00pm Christmas-Eve
2006 Candlelight service. (A guess at the permanent link after Dec 2006)
- Emory University's student musical theater group: Ad Hoc Productions (a review of a revue).
- The Ad Hoc Singers, conducted by Christy Leonard, at the 1st Presbyterian Church, Columbia, MO 1979 on KOPN/KBIA.
- Parkway Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi, Texas musters their Ad Hoc Singers in their Nov 20, 2003
End of the Year Review [PDF] for caroling Dec 6 at Trinity Towers;
as they did in their Nov 14, 2002 Newsletter for caroling Dec 14 (3 short rehearsals).
- A group at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. December 2000
- The blog of the 1970s-80s Salt Lake City, Utah Ad Hoc Singers.
- Linda's Ad Hoc Post Hoc Reunion pictures.
- The same group (? active 1974-1989) with videos on YouTube singing Morley's
Now is the Month of Maying
and Sing We and Chant It
at a reunion party in September 2006.
The video was recorded with a camera, and neither the picture nor sound quality is good, but they are having fun.
- Carl Ellison of Seattle, Washington
mentions (Sept 18, 2007) his lapsed blog for the old Salt Lake City Ad Hoc Singers.
- Sheryl's Ad Hoc Singers sang at the 10th Annual Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil 4:15-4:45 PM Oct 4, 2007 at the Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro, OR.
- A Canadian early-music ensemble.
- McGill University has ad-hoc Christmas carollers, reported in November 2002.
- A mention of the Images Ad Hoc Singers (of Vancouver?)
- A page about Canadian author Caroline Hendrika Woodward has another mention of the Images Ad Hoc Singers in Nelson, BC.
- 7:30pm May 28, 2004 the University Women's Club of Vancouver presented a Soirée of French music with The Hycroft Singers and The Ad Hoc singers.
- Perhaps these folks in Crediton, UK (near Exeter) should be our sister chorus?
"They sing unaccompanied, close harmony, church music, madrigals, and any other pieces they enjoy."
- Their 25th reunion (no date on the page, but guessing July 2003)
- A Flower-festival concert, Sept? 28/29, 2002?
- Another Crediton concert, 7:30 pm, Saturday Nov 8th, 2003
- And from the Crediton Parish Church, another concert mention, this one marking the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (June 2, 1953/2003).
- Another Crediton concert reference. (These guys get a lot of press!)
- And another, Son et Lumiere Sept 9, 2004.
- And a Christmas Concert, 7:30pm Thursday Dec 8, 2005 in The Cheriton Fitzpaine Methodist Church.
- And Light Music, 3:00pm Sunday, Sept 24 at The Orangery, Sewerby Hall, Bridlington (a long way from Crediton; maybe a different group?)
- Ad Hoc Singers at the Sykes Lodge of Freemasons 19th annual carol service, held at Nafferton Church in Driffield (20 Dec 2006).
- A Driffield-based group, The Ad Hoc Singers, performed in the Sewerby Hall and Gardens Orangery Concert Series on Sunday, 7 Sept [2008] in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
- Skipsea Chapel anniversary celebrations on Wednesday 11th March [2009?] at 7:15pm with a concert given by the Ad Hoc Singers of Driffield.
- Conwy, Wales: the local Ad Hoc singers concerts
- The Colla Voce Singers of London (U.K.) have Ad hoc singers who deputise for concerts, corporate events and tours, and complement the choir when larger forces are needed.
- The Ad Hoc Chorale of Tramore, Waterford competed in the Cork International Choral Festival 2006 National Competitions.
- An American group of Ad Hoc Singers participated in the Berlin Festival of the Political Song in 1982.
- Australia, Midsumma: Gay Australia Mass for St. Dorothy, the Patron Saint of Fruit.
- Melbourne, Australia: 11th Annual Tribute to St Cecilia, Saturday, Nov 23, 2002, 8.00pm, Auburn Uniting Church, 81 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn. Bruckner Mass in E minor, Bach Jesu Meine Freude, Other selected works.
- Midsumma's annual St Dorothy's Day Mass, St Agnes Church, 114 Booran Road, Glenhuntly. 6.30pm, Feb 7 (2004?). Music of Arvo Part and the Ad hoc Singers.
- Bruce Macrae of Melbourne, Australia admits to conducting the Ad Hoc Singers.
- Wendy Hughes Chuck of Melbourne, Australia tweets at 9:31 PM on Apr 11th [2009?] that she "Sang St Mark Passion on Good Friday with the Ad Hoc Singers. Now recovering from nightly rehearsals over the past week or so."
- ABC Classic FM (Australia's Classical Music Network) Sunday May 20, 2001 and Saturday 25 Dec, 2004
- Aqua Opera in Capetown, South Africa (April 2003 -- the
original link is dead (and it's a pay site anyway), but Google has a cached copy.)
- Cape Town Opera's world premier of Alfred Schnittke's Oratorio Nagasaki at the First Cape Town International Summer Music Festival, 8:00pm, Thursday 23 Nov 2006, City Hall.
(cached copy;
current link already has new content)
- Ad Hoc Records label.
(Mostly contemporary, but they do list an album of 17th-century lute music
[MP3 sample].)
- commercial ad hoc – a 75-minute CD of sound samples from commercials.
(3 sample tracks on line, and I couldn't stand listening to 2 of them.)
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