Location is integral to our identity, but collaboration is key to our mission. The gives rise and energy to our vision of the Chorale as a community builder via the arts. Our partnerships with other arts organizations have been tremendously fruitful. These relationships help to model the critical synergy that must exist within the downtown Arts District for the district to achieve ever-increasing prominence as a center for the arts around the world.

Among our most memorable collaborations:

• Since 2003, the Chorale has partnered with two other Arts District organizations — the Arts District Friends and the Margaret and Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art — to create a sold-out Valentine’s Eve event at the Crow Collection’s Gallery III. The 2004 performance introduced the sensual tangos of Astor Piazzolla, including dancers, in the fabulous surroundings of ancient Eastern art. The 2005 and 2006 events were expanded to two evenings of American standards (Love, American Style in 2005 and Love Goes to the Movies in 2006) to accommodate demand.
  
  
• The Chorale leveraged its partnership with the Arts District Friends and the Crow Collection to celebrate the opening of the Nasher Sculpture Center in October 2003. It was a fabulous event that heralded the Nasher Center, while also welcoming hundreds of new visitors to the Crow Collection of Asian Art.
  
  We eagerly anticipate new opportunities and new friendships as the Arts District continues to grow and evolve, particularly looking forward to the opening of the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theatre, the dedication of the Grand Plaza, and the reopening of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts.
  
  
• On the 40th anniversary of J.F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Chorale returned to the luxuriant ambience of Cathedral Guadalupe for an all a cappella concert, which included Herbert Howell’s monumental anthem on the death of JFK, Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing.

  The performance garnered a positive review by Dallas Morning News music critic Scott Cantrell. Equally importantly, the performance helped to build awareness of the architectural and acoustical splendor of the Cathedral, of which Mr. Cantrell said, “promises to be the area’s premier venue for choral music.” The review brought immediate response from the global arts community, including a request by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, England, to open an upcoming U.S. tour at the Cathedral.

• In July 2006, the Chorale programmed an evening of music from the turn of the 20th century to celebrate the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition of works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Two years prior, over 3,000 people packed the Hamon Atrium of the Dallas Museum of Art to hear the Chorale sing music from the rarely performed Sacred Concerts by jazz legend Duke Ellington.
  
  The audience was the largest ever for the DMA’s Late Night Series. The performance, which included collaboration with a jazz orchestra conducted by a former member of Ellington’s band, and featured two African-American vocalists of national renown, celebrated the touring
  exhibition The Art of Romare Bearden.
  

All of these experiences are magical. They showcase the synergy that is created through partnerships that seek to combine various art forms to achieve greater appreciation and understanding across cultural divides.