Choral music is on the rise!

 From the January 10, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook comes this:

“First there was “Glee.” Then “The Sing-off.” Now, from public radio, it’s “VoiceBox,” a show dedicated to the art of singing and it’s coming out of San Francisco.”

Tune in to KALW (91.7 FM) on Friday nights at 10 and hear arts journalist and a cappella singer Chloe Veltman discuss “Why do we sing?” Ella Fitzgerald, community choruses, countertenors and cabaret artists from the Bay Area will participate. Veltman hopes to bring the level of depth and intelligence to her conversations that is typical of the conversations of Terry Gross and Michael Krasny. The website is http://www.voicebox-media.org/.