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Choristers Guild

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Choristers Guild
501(c)(3) Nonprofit
ISIN🆔
GenreSacred music, educational
Founded 📆Los Angeles, 1949; 75 years ago (1949)
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️,
Dallas, Texas
,
United States
Area served 🗺️
Products 📟 Sheet music, books, magazines, music workbooks
Members
Number of employees
🌐 Websitechoristersguild.org
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Choristers Guild is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in Dallas, Texas.[1] This ecumenical organization is a boutique publisher of choral, handbell, and instrumental music for churches, schools, and community ensembles, with customers mostly in the United States, but also around the world.[2][3] It publishes, prints, and ships sacred and school choral music, workbooks, and handbell and instrumental music from hundreds of composers, and is an active guild which provides educational resources for it members comprising of choral conductors, handbell ensembles, educators, community organizations, and church musicians.[4]

Choristers Guild’s mission statement is “Enabling Leaders to Nurture the Musical and Spiritual Growth of Children, Youth, and Adults” with the goal to develop the artistic, creative, and spiritual nature of people of all ages. The organization's events are held to inspire and empower musicians via in-person and online events for education and training. The signature program of the guild is the Choristers Guild Institute, a three-year training program for leaders of children and youth choirs, which began in 2009.[5]

Founder[edit]

Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs, founder

Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs founded Choristers Guild in Los Angeles in 1949, based on the idea that children’s choir could systematically develop Christian character in boys and girls.[3] [6] Jacobs was a lecturer and conductor and had achieved national prominence from speaking at festivals, seminars, and through her books.[7][8] Upon receiving numerous questions after events, she began publishing her responses in letters on a regular basis, which evolved into the Choristers Guild Letters, now the quarterly magazine called The Chorister.[9]

The first CHORISTERS GUILD LETTERS, 1949

What initially started out as a personal venture, supported entirely by Ruth and her husband, Leslie Jacobs, Choristers Guild grew and officially became an incorporated organization in 1953 in Memphis, Tennessee, where the Jacobs had moved. Once incorporated, Leslie Jacobs was named Executive Secretary, and a Board of Directors was selected. The Jacobs moved to Santa Barbara, California, but during the Guild’s formative years, local city and regional chapters of the Choristers Guild began forming around the United States as a result of workshops or festivals held nearby, led by Ruth Jacobs.

The Choristers Guild office moved to Dallas, Texas in 1963 and Dr. Federal Lee Whittlesey became the Executive Director.[6] When Ruth Jacobs died in 1960, her husband Leslie sent a box of unfinished projects, articles, and Ruth’s personal notebook to noted choir director and clinician Helen Kemp, who would follow in her footsteps and take over a large part of the Choristers Guild. Kemp continued the tradition of leading festivals, workshops, and seminars while fellow Guild members continued to help expand Choristers Guild by publishing workbooks, sacred music, hymn studies, choir awards and learning tools, and other choir products.[10][11][12] Since 2010, Choristers Guild expanded onto a digital platform, providing members weekly e-news bulletins and occasional webinars.

Notable Members, Composers, and Officers, Past and Present[edit]

Jann Aldredge-Clanton, composer
Anton Armstrong, conductor[13][14][15][16]
Lynn Shaw Bailey, composer[17]
Michael Bedford, composer[18]
Roberta Bitgood, composer
Mark Burrows, composer[19]
Kris Crunk, composer[20]
Taylor Davis, composer[21]
Sandra J. Eithun, composer[22]
Laura Farnell, composer[23]
Dan Forrest, composer
Carolyn Gillette, composer
Michael Helman, composer[24]
Hal Hopson, composer
Bill Ingram, composer[25]
Helen Kemp, composer[26]
Robert Leaf, composer [27]
Mary Lynn Lightfoot, composer[23]
Jody W. Lindh, composer[28]
Austin C. Lovelace, composer[29]
Trevor Manor, composer[30]
Mark A. Miller, composer[31]
Cathy Moklebust, composer[32]
Anna Laura Page, composer[33]
Sue Ellen Page, composer[34]
Mark Patterson, composer[35]
Alice Parker, composer[36][37]
Allen Pote, composer[38]
Carl Schalk, composer
K. Lee Scott, composer[39]
Natalie Sleeth, composer[40]
Terry D. Taylor, composer[41]
André J. Thomas, composer[42]
Martha Lynn Thompson, composer[43]
Margaret R. Tucker, composer[44]
H. Dean Wagner, composer
Dale Wood (composer)[45]
Brian Wren, composer[46]
Cynthia Wright, composer[47]
Terry W. York, composer[48]
Laurie Zelman, composer[49]

2022 Board Members[edit]

President: John Sutton[50][51]
Director: Tim Sharp
Immediate Past President: Stephanie McIlwain Miller[52]
President-Elect: Todd Arant
Secretary-Treasurer: Andy Masetti
Officers: Sandra Rosales, Ruth Szucs, and Elizabeth Shepley[53]
Executive Director: Dawn Jantsch

Past Executive Directors Years Served
Dawn Jantsch 2017–present
Jim Rindelaub[52] 2004–2017
C. Michael Hawn (interim)[54] 2002–2003
James Steel 2000–2002
George Eison 1999
Patty Evans[55] 1987–1998
John T. Burke[56] 1978–1986
Cecil Lapo[57] 1972–1978
John S. C. Kemp 1968–1972
F. Lee Whittlesey 1963–1967
A. Leslie Jacobs 1960–1963
Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs, founder 1949–1960

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=951921157&name=Choristers%20Guild&city=Dallas&state=TX&countryAbbr=United%20States&type=pub78Search
  2. ↑ "New Choristers Guild Sheet Music | Sheet music at JW Pepper". www.jwpepper.com.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Choristers Guild". Los Angeles Times. April 10, 1999.
  4. ↑ "Choristers Guild • Music Publishers Association of the United States". www.mpa.org. October 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ Powell, Timothy Michael; Bryson, Julian David; Brockes, Barthold Heinrich; Ken, Thomas (2019). "Reviewed work: Redemption Mass, BrysonJulian David, BrockesBarthold Heinrich, KenThomas". The Choral Journal. 59 (8): 88–92. JSTOR 26601987.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kurian, George Thomas; Lamport, Mark A. (November 10, 2016). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442244320 – via Google Books. Search this book on
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  8. ↑ Casey, Glenda; Turnbow, Shelley (1996). "Southwestern Division: Dallas, Texas March 20—23, 1996". The Choral Journal. 36 (6): 127–143. JSTOR 23550717 – via JSTOR.
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  12. ↑ "Something To Sing About". Baylor Magazine, July/August 2002 | Baylor University.
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  17. ↑ "More Than Enough (Unison ) by Lynn Shaw Bail | J.W. Pepper Sheet Music". www.jwpepper.com.
  18. ↑ "Artist - Don Michael Bedford". GIA Publications.
  19. ↑ "Mark Burrows Bio". Choristers Guild - Atlanta. July 14, 2020.
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  25. ↑ "Bill Ingram". Sonology Music.
  26. ↑ "Helen Kemp Lifetime Achievement Award – ACDA East".
  27. ↑ https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/robert-leaf/isbn/978-613-3-36380-9
  28. ↑ "Jody W. Lindh". Discogs.
  29. ↑ "Music in Worship-Austin C. Lovelace Interview". www.selahpub.com.
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  32. ↑ "Handbell World | Handbell World - Bio of Cathy Moklebust". www.handbellworld.com.
  33. ↑ "Anna Laura Page - Hope Publishing Company". www.hopepublishing.com.
  34. ↑ "Artist - Sue Ellen Page". GIA Publications.
  35. ↑ "Mark Patterson".
  36. ↑ https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=28339&context=newsreleases
  37. ↑ "N.Y. composer Alice Parker to conduct concert, workshop here". Rochester Post Bulletin. February 23, 1995.
  38. ↑ Metzger, Andy. "Pensacola Children's Chorus co-founder enjoys international composing career". Pensacola News Journal.
  39. ↑ House, Concordia Publishing. "K. Lee Scott | Composer | CPH Music". music.cph.org.
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  47. ↑ "Music Library - Music provided by Western District Conference and its Congregations". kipdf.com.
  48. ↑ "Terry York". Center for Christian Music | Baylor University.
  49. ↑ https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=theology_music_etds
  50. ↑ "John Sutton". LA Phil.
  51. ↑ "John Sutton, Artistic Director". Angeles Chorale | Inspiring LA with great choral music.
  52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 Roberts, Ken Schwencke, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Alec Glassford, Andrea Suozzo, Brandon (May 9, 2013). "Choristers Guild - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica.
  53. ↑ Arts, Conference on Worship, Theology, and the (August 13, 2013). "2012 Conference Archive".
  54. ↑ https://www.smu.edu/Perkins/FacultyAcademics/degrees/-CSCO-3h--/-/media/Site/Perkins/Bios/C-Michael-Hawn-Bio-2018-New.pdf[bare URL PDF]
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