A paparazzi scrum. A sea of rainbow umbrellas. The German premiere of a vital mini-opera about the Holocaust. And an utterly charming song about penguins. OK, let me explain. On June 19, about 125 of us converged on Berlin for the first leg of our four-city tour through Germany. In addition to about 75 singing […]

An 80-year-old man tries to forget the cruel pain of his past. The ghost of his young boyfriend gently urges him to remember. For a Look or a Touch, a stunningly beautiful mini-opera about the fate of two gay lovers in Nazi Germany and the redemptive power of memory decades later, debuted in Seattle’s Benaroya […]

Mindy Taylor shares her expertise on group decision making at GALA Symposium 2013 in Atlanta, GA. “Consensus Validation” is one of the strongest and most effective techniques a choir or board can use for problem-solving and making decisions. A key tool in the process is testing and polling the group during the conversation process. Mindy’s […]

The German word for love is “liebe.” It’s only fitting that a labor of love about an enduring love affair – the mini-opera For a Look or a Touch — will finally be showcased in the setting for this story: Germany. The idea of a German tour sprang from SMC’s 2011 performance of the powerhouse […]

GALA Choruses 411 Board Development Advisor Eve Campbell and GALA Choruses Board President Mindy Taylor lead a humorous and educational Mock Board Meeting session at the 2013 Leadership Symposium. Laugh and learn along with them.

On Sunday, April 6, 2014, the new Fargo-Moorhead Gay Men’s Chorus had their first public concert. Welcome to the Show! was billed as this young group’s “coming out” concert. The new chorus performed a few songs on their own before welcoming their guests Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus to the stage. Both choruses performed together […]