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Magic City Choral Society History
The Magic City Choral Society (MCCS) is an inclusive community based choral arts, education, performance organization. MCCS strives to maintain the finest non-auditioned men's and women's choruses in the nation, present the residents of Birmingham with live concerts of the choral masterworks of the highest caliber, provide educational outreach, and showcase Birmingham's cultural distinction. Every year more than 100 people participate, without audition, in the Magic City Choral Society's (MCCS) men's and women's choruses and the MCCS makes up to $5,000 of scholarships available to people in need who desire to sing with the MCCS. The choruses present 3-4 free concerts each year, and each concert is performed at least twice and often more. Each concert series cost MCCS an average $15,000 to produce and represents a total of 12-16 hours of live concerts. These are choral masterworks of the highest caliber that entertain, educate, and inspire more than 3000 concert attendees from across the region. Two of Birmingham's best cultural distinctions are always featured at each performance: the performers and some of Birmingham's finest concert venues. Each performance represents more than 60 hours of music and vocal education that members receive during weekly rehearsals August through May. While the quality of performance is immediately observable, participants possessing more singing experience and those with degrees in music liken the kind of education received through MCCS as equivalent if not better than they received in higher education. MCCS is also committed to good citizenship and the community. We pay forward the good will and generosity we receive by singing an additional 10-11 outreach concerts for other earnest nonprofits, community groups, and organizations throughout the year. In the past six years, dedicated volunteers have managed the administrative needs of MCCS; however, because of our steady growth, MCCS has grown beyond the ability of our volunteers to manage the organization without professional assistance. During the 2013-2014 fiscal year MCCS will hire a part-time general manager and development coordinator to meet these needs and usher MCCS into the next phase of its service to the community. In addition, MCCS will partner with an underserved public school where music is not taught to develop a pilot educational outreach program to provide music education for its students. MCCS is the context for many good and profound things for its members and for community. Since 2007, the Magic City Choral Society has performed concerts in the following venues: Gadsden's Wallace Hall, the Southside Baptist Church, the Alys Stephens Center, Samford's Wright Center, the BJCC Concert Hall, Bluff Park United Methodist Church, Grace Episcopal Church, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, the Pell City Center for Performing Arts, the Montgomery Convention and Visitors Bureau and River Walk, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Covenant UMC in Dothan, Alabama. The MCCS has also collaborated with the following entities: Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, Magic City AIDS Walk, the Nature Conservancy's Earth Day Celebration, PFlag regional conference, First Light Women's and Children's Shelter, the Apollo Bal, Integrity Alabama, Alabama American Choral Directors Association, the Seasoned Performers, Birmingham AIDS Outreach, Episcopal Place, Pepper Place, Sloss Real Estate, Central Alabama Pride, AIDS Alabama, Southside Baptist Food Bank, West Alabama AIDS Outreach, the 1917 Clinic, Whatley Middle School, Ramsay High School Choir, UAB Choir, Macy's Galleria, SAKS 5th Avenue at the Summit, and most recently, the grand opening of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. |
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