A distant stepchild

Alabany Pro Musica director David Griggs-Janower has some thoughts on why choral music is not as highly esteemed as orchestral music on his blog:

I was asked to write something about the “state of choral music,” a quite wide topic, and it’s either think about this or get to work on my taxes, so…

My first thoughts are about choral music in the USA vs. orchestral music. Choral music is a distant stepchild compared with orchestral music. This is not true in some other places, where choral music is far stronger, and where professional choruses have been established for centuries. But in the US, professional choruses have only come about, on the whole for the last 30 years or so, and only proliferated in the last decade and a half.

So I wonder why choral music takes such a back seat to orchestral music here.

Read the whole post here.