Other Groups Named AD HOC
The blog of the 1970s-80s Salt Lake City 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.
A Canadian early-music ensemble.
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 November 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.
Festive music after the Abbeyfields & Derwen Deg blind club
Christmas Dinner at the Deganwy Castle Hotel, Dec 12, 2005
And Light Music,
3:00pm Sunday, September 24 at The Orangery, Sewerby Hall, Bridlington (a long way from Crediton; maybe a different group?)
And singing at the Sykes Lodge of Freemasons
19th annual carol service, held at Nafferton Church in Driffield (20 December 2006).
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH will have an "Ad Hoc Pick Up Choir"
for the 6:00pm Christmas-Eve 2006 Candlelight service.
(A guess at the permanent link after Dec 2006)
Parkway Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi, Texas musters their Ad Hoc Singers in their November 20, 2003
End of the Year Review [PDF] for caroling December 6 at Trinity Towers;
as they did in their November 14, 2002 Newsletter
for caroling December 14 (3 short rehearsals).
McGill University has ad-hoc Christmas carollers, reported in November 2002.
A group at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. December 2000
A potential group of protest singers
in Cambridge, MA (April 2004).
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.
Emory University's student musical theater group: Ad Hoc Productions
(a review of a revue).
Australia,
Midsumma:
Gay Australia Mass for St. Dorothy, the Patron Saint of Fruit.
Midsumma's annual St Dorothy's Day Mass, St Agnes Church, 114 Booran Road, Glenhuntly. 6.30pm, February 7 (2004?).
Music of Arvo Part and the Ad hoc Singers.
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.
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 November 2006, City Hall.
(cached copy;
current link already has new content)
A reference on ABC Classic FM
(Australia's Classical Music Network) Sunday May 20, 2001
Conwy, Wales: the local Ad Hoc singers concerts
A mention of the Images Ad Hoc Singers (of Vancouver?)
A page about 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.
There's an eclectic 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.)
Other Mentions of Our Group
Anthony Smitha (Phantom Seraphim) mentions us in his blog, Sunday,
December 10, 2006