Chorus History
This list is maintained by CMC Historian Steve Hutzel.
1991-1992 Season
| Tidings of Pride & Joy |
Dec 19th |
First Unitarian |
| Never Turning Back |
April 3rd |
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| Together in Pride |
June 13th |
Withrow High School |
1992-1993 Season
| Home For the Holidays |
Dec 18th |
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| Broadway Bound |
March 20th |
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| Touched by Pride |
June 5th |
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The combined talents of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus and the CMC unite for the area's premeire
of When We No Longer Touch.
1993-1994 Season
| A Holiday Fanfare |
Dec 10th & 11th |
Memorial Hall |
| Escape to the Movies |
March 19th |
Emery Auditorium |
| With Liberty and Justice fof All |
June 16th & 17th |
NKU Auditorium |
The CMC Chamber Singers (now AcoustiCool) participates in the premiere of MUSE's New Spirituals Project.
1994-1995 Season
| An Evening in December |
Dec 9th & 10th |
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| The Music is You |
April 1st |
4-Sided Triangle |
| Songs from Our Rainbow |
June 17th |
NKU Auditorium |
Participated in Artists for Awareness '95 in the AVOC (AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati) event at historic Music Hall.
1995-1996 Season
| Traditions |
Dec 7th & 8th |
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| Strictly Sondheim |
March 8th & 9th |
Memorial Hall |
| Feelin' Groovy |
June 7th & 8th |
Jarsen-Kaplan Auditorium |
The holiday concert was Patrick Coyle's first as Artistic Director. Pam Myers joined the CChorus for the Strictly Sondheim concert. Feelin'
Groovy was the Chorus'
first concert in the Jarsen-Kaplan Theatre. That summer the Chorus performed at GALA V in Tampa Florida.
1996-1997 Season
| One Light, One World |
Dec 6th & 7th |
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| 'S Wonderful |
April 5th & 6th |
Memorial Auditorium |
| Fantasia & Fairytales |
June 13th & 14th |
NKU Auditorium |
Special guest artists include Bill McKinley during Fantasia & Fairytales and our favorite diva Ann Hampton Calloway for 'S Wonderful.
1997-1998 Season
| Ring in the Season |
Dec 13th & 14th |
Jarsen-Kaplan Auditorium |
| Glory |
March 28th & 29th |
Jarsen-Kaplan Auditorium |
| Naked Man |
June 13th & 14th |
Jarsen-Kaplan Auditorium |
We perform with grammy-award winning gospel artist Andrae Crouch. We also joined forces with the Detroit Together Men's Chorus to
present the soul-stirring song-cycle, Naked Man.
1998-1999 Season
| Let it Snow |
Dec 12th & 13th |
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| Sleeping with the Past |
March 20th & 21st |
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| We are Family - Music of the 70's |
June 12th & 13th |
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Our first CD is released. Local boy Lee Roy Reams is our guest artist for the holiday Concert.
1999-2000 Season
| Carols from the Four Corners |
Dec 18th & 19th |
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| Leading Men Don't Dance |
April 1st & 2nd |
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| Among Friends |
June 10th & 11th |
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That holiday season Russell Winters joined us as accompanist for the first time. The chorus performed "Hearing Voices" with Columbus
GMC, a work we commissioned. "Hearing Voices" chronicled the lives of gay men during the 20th century. that summer we traveled to
San Jose California and participated in GALA Festival 2000.
2000-2001 Season
| Don We Now! |
Dec 2nd & 3rd |
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| Standard Time |
April 7th & 8th |
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| Freedom Come! |
June 9th & 10th |
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We celebrated our 10th Anniversary with 3 concerts focusing on the best for our first 10 years plus new arrangements with pointed toward
the future. For the first time we appeared with the Cincinnati Pops at Riverbend in a program titled "Now Appearing on Broadway".
2001-2002 Season
| Child of Wonder |
Dec 8th & 9th |
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| Mothers & Sons |
March 16th & 17th |
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| Tales of the City |
June 8th |
Hoffner Park |
Named "Best Songfest" by CityBeat Magazine, recognizing our "seasonal concerts, paying tribute to American songbook favorites such
as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong".
2002-2003 Season
| An Animated Christmas |
Dec 7th & 8th |
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| Isn't It Ironic? |
March 22nd & 23rd |
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| Dreaming of the Day |
June 14th & 15th |
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The Cincinnati Men's Chorus performed with Erich Kunzel and the Cinicnnati Pops Orchestra for their Annual Holiday concert. This concert
featured the "Freedom Rings" Bell choir which is composed of members from the Men's Chorus. We were joined by guest artist Suede for
the "Isn't It Ironic" concert and by the Queen City Rainbow Band for the Pride concert.
2003-2004 Season
| Lights! Camera! Carols! |
Dec 13th & 14th |
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| Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! |
March 20th & 21st |
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| Everything's Coming Up Rosie! |
June 18th & 19th |
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The "Men in Lights" season put a spotlight on various local guest artists, including Ballet Tech Ohio, UC's College-Conservatory of Music
Musical Theater students, Pamela Myers and Kathy Wade, among others. We capped the season with a trip up north to Montreal for the
GALA Choruses 7th International Festival, giving a crowd-pleasing performance which included a hilarious social commentary on
"choralography," commissioned by CMC this year.
2004-2005 Season
| A Winter Wonderland |
Dec 11th &12th |
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| It's My Party |
April 9th & 10th |
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| Soul Sounds |
June 17th & 18th |
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A pair of sold-out shows kicked off our 14th season with "A Winter Wonderland" - just the first of this record-setting year. "It's My Party"
presented a salute to the music of the '50s and '60s in one of our most entertaining pair of concerts ever. This was Patrick's 10th season.
2005-2006 Season
| Chillin' Out |
Dec 10h &11th |
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| Bustin' Out All Over |
March 25th & 26th |
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| Best of Time: Music of Our Lives |
June 2nd & 3rd |
Mt. Auburn Presbyterian |
Go All Out - our gala 15th anniversary season - began with a reprise of "It's My Party" in the Contemporary Arts Center as part of the Enjoy
The Arts 20/20 Festival. We began plans to restructure our subscription season into October/December/Spring with a Pride concert
benefiting the LGBT community in June. Our first effort in this was a rousing success, raising more than $1,000 for Equality Cincinnati's
Safe Schools project.
2006-2007 Season
| Reach Out and Touch |
Oct 14h &15th |
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| Christmas with the Crooners |
Dec 16th & 17th |
NKU Auditorium |
| Women We Love |
April 9th & 10th |
XU Auditorium |
| This is Our Country |
June 1st & 2nd |
NURFC |
Out and About - This year we moved out of our performance home at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan theater and out in the Cincinnati
community. Performing each concert pair at a different venue, we found new audiences and discovered terrific acoustic spaces all over the city.
Our Pride concert, benefiting AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati, marked our first appearance at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
2007-2008 Season
| Hand in Hand |
Oct 19h & 2st |
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| Safe & Warm: Together for the Holidays |
Dec 15th & 16th |
NKU Auditorium |
| Revenge of the Divas |
March 28th & 29th |
XU Auditorium |
| Heroes: People Who Rock Our World |
May 31st |
NURFC |
We continued exploring venues this season in search of a new performance home, and moved to St. Paul United Methodist Church in
Madeira as our rehearsal home. We created an outreach ensemble program that all singing members could participate in called singOUT.
CMC and MUSE joined forces to perform "Hand in Hand," uniting to celebrate the strength of community and the power of family. We recorded
our fifth CD, "Safe and Warm," (released in Fall 2008) and traveled to Miami, FL in July 2008 to represent Cincinnati at the quadrennial GALA festival.
2008-2009 Season
| Naughty and Nice |
Dec 20h & 21st |
NURFC |
| Like Totally 80s |
March 21st & 22nd |
NURFC |
| Queen City Music City |
May 30th & 31st |
NURFC |
Settled in our new performance home at the Freedom Center, and a new rehearsal home at St. John Unitarian Church in Clifton, our fun
and exciting programs -- "Naughty & Nice," "Like Totally 80s" and "Queen City/Music City" -- proved popular with our core audience.
2009-2010 Season
| Glorious |
Dec 19th & 20th |
NURFC |
| Move |
March 279th & 28th |
NURFC |
| Let's It Hear for the Boys |
June 5th & 6th |
NURFC |
2010-2011 Season
| Twisted Tinsel |
Dec 1th &12th |
NURFC |
| Laugh Out Loud |
March 11th & 12th |
NURFC |
| We Are Family |
June 4th & 5th |
SCPA |
In our 20th anniversary season we celebrated our successes and our final performances with Dr. Patrick Coyle as artistic director. Our holiday
concert was performed with Queen City Bronze. Kate Clinton joined us for Laugh Out Lout. The final
concert of the season, "We Are A Family,"
was our inaugural performance in the Mayerson Theater at the new School for Creative and Performing Arts and we were joined by MUSE.
2011-2012 Season
| Wonderment: A Time of Awe |
Dec 17th &18th |
SCPA |
| Anticipation: Secrets and Dreams |
March 24th & 25th |
SCPA |
| It Gets Better |
June 23th & 24th |
SCPA |
Season 21: Coming Of Age brought a new artistic director (Dr. Casey Hayes), a new subscription performance home (School for Creative
and Performing Arts) and our first physical office space at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. We launched a new "sassy, classy, sexy, smart"
logo and branding strategy. Queen City Bronze joined us once again for our holiday concert. For Pride, we performed "It Gets Better" as an
official concert of the "It Gets Better Project" created by columnist Dan Savage.
