The Michigan State University Children's Choir programme began in 1993 with the founding of the Michigan State University Community Music School. The programme has a present membership of over 180 singers in four choirs representing 23 communities. In August 2002 the MSU Children's Choir performed at the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music as the official representative of the United States, and it was a featured choir on the national NPR special broadcast produced by Peabody Award-winning host, Brian Newhouse. The MSU Children's Choir gave performances at national, division, and state conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). They have been guest artists with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Neemi Jarvi conducting), Greater Lansing, MSU, and Rochester symphony orchestras, and have appeared in concert with the Canadian Brass, Peter Nero, Marilyn Horne, and Marvin Hamlisch. Opera chorus engagements include Bizet's Carmen and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. The choir has recorded the CDs Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope, works with texts written by children caught in the Holocaust and the war in Bosnia; America the Beautiful: Songs of Our Heritage;and Rejoice!, traditional Christmas music. The choir's tenth anniversary CD, Songs From the Heart, was released in December 2003.

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