Musiktidning May 2007

              Volume CXV May, 2007 No. 5
Published by the American Union of Swedish Singers
In its 115th year of Performing Svenska Sånger in America
The Arpi Swedish Male Chorus
of Metropolitan Detroit and the
Scandia Women’s Chorus of
Michigan presented their annual
Spring Concert April 29th at Holy
Cross Lutheran Church in Livo-nia,
Michigan. A silent auction
was also held. Refreshments
served following the concert in-cluded
decorated cakes celebrating
the 75th Anniversary of the found-ing
of the Arpi Chorus.
Arthur Elander directed the Arpi
men in songs which included: Let
There Be Music, Brothers Sing
On, Man Ska Leva för varandra,
River In Judea, Sverige, and Ton-erna.
The women of Scandia, di-rected
by Ruth Anne Zimmer, pre-sented
among others Med en en-kel
tulipan, It’s A Grand Night For
Singing, Konvaljens avsked, Hjär-tats
saga, Folkvisa, and With
Songs of Rejoicing. Both chorus-es
collaborated to present We’re
the Choir and Lovad vare Herren
Gud. The program closed with
both choruses joining in a rous-ing
rendition of Salvation and
Arpi Celebrates 75 Years at Spring Concert
Arpi Swedish Male Chorus of Metropolitan Detroit and the Scandia Women’s Chorus of Michigan at their Spring Concert.
MEET THIS DYNAMIC GROUP
From their website:
“Founded in October of 2005, the
Chicago Nordic Choir has approx-imately
20 members that sing
mostly three-harmony traditional
Scandinavian songs. We are a fun
group that consists of mostly
young Swedes, however we have
the pleasure to sing with singers
from Norway, Denmark as well as
Iceland! So do you have to be
Scandinavian to sing in the choir?
Not at all! We are also lucky to
have a few talented Americans
amongst us that tackle the chal-lenging
task of singing in Swedish
or Norwegian. We pride ourselves
with both professional choir sing-ers
as well as beginners.
“The Chicago Nordic Choir per-forms
at various events in the Chi-cagoland
area and has performed
for private parties, churches, retire-ment
residences, and various or-ganizations
and companies. We
rehearse every Monday at Min-nekirken
(2614 North Kedzie Bou-levard,
Chicago, IL 60647) with our
great director Melissa Grant!
Please let us know if you would
like to join us! Send an e-mail to:
info@NordicChoir.com”
Those who attended the 2006
Central Division convention had
the pleasure of meeting these won-derful
young women and hearing
them sing in person.
In just two short years, they have
built quite a name for themselves.
They performed 17 times in 2006
The Chicago Nordic Choir Joins the AUSS
Above: The Chicago Nordic Choir on October 21, 2006 at the Andersonville housewarming party. Below: The Choir at the 2006 Central Division
Convention Individual Chorus Night
continued on page 8
and were featured in “Time Out
Magazine.”
To promote their group, one of
their members designed a beauti-ful
website: www.nordicchoir.
com. And they have a video on
YouTube. See their performance
from the March 25 Waffle Day at
the Swedish American Museum by
going to www.youtube.com and
typing Chicago Nordic Choir in
the “Search” box, or go directly to
the video at: www.youtube.com/
watch?v=QXpYMZ0JRXQ
The AUSS offers a rousing
‘Välkommen!’ to the Chicago
Nordic Choir. We look forward
to seeing you often!