Singing Out – Toronto

We are Toronto’s largest 2SLGBTQQIA+ community choir. We are a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, choir – a relative rarity in our communities across North America. But Singing Out is much more than just a choir. Above all, Singing Out is a community with a mission of pride, music, and belonging. With weekly Tuesday rehearsals, and social events throughout …

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Quiet No More

The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, and 16 other GALA choruses from across the country commissioned Quiet No More, composed by 6 of today’s most influential LGBTQ composers and an amazing librettist to tell the story of the Stonewall Uprising and the Gay Rights Movement through the …

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We Hold Your Names Sacred

We Hold Your Names Sacred – GALA Commission Consortium Artists: Mari Esabel Valverde & Dane Figueroa Edidi Length = 4 minutes SATB, SSAA and TTBB voicings available Text by Dane Figueroa Edidi Music by Mari Esabel Valverde The first in a series of choral pieces addressing the epidemic of violence, especially murders, of transgender women and in …

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Love, Death, What Else?

Love, Death, What Else?” was commissioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus as part of the McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship. It premiered in 2023 as a central focus of a concert titled “Generation“. The text is based on interviews with queer elder residents of Spirit on Lake in Minneapolis. Note: contains mature themes and language “Love, Death, …

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Naked in the Leaves

Partners in life and song, Robert Seeley and Robert Espindola created a vast body of choral songs that have been sung across the GALA Choruses network. “Naked in the Leaves” tells the story of two elder gay men, partners and lovers, as they reminisce about their past and wonder about their place in this world …

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Boxes

Using a variety of Broadway musical styles, this upbeat piece questions societal boxes while dreaming a world in which we are all free to be who we’re meant to be. “Boxes” is about wanting to live in a world where we can all “be free to be who we’re meant to be” – a world …

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Sea Change Chorale

We are Portland Maine’s Social Justice Choir. We use our voices to bring focus to social issues with concerts that celebrate local non-profits. ​