Welcome
to one of the most exciting ventures on the web! Boy Choir
Magazine
is long overdue. BCM recognizes
the young artists of the classical Boy Choir and Treble
traditions,
the individual groups, Choir Masters, volunteers, parents, churches and
individual organizations that enable the choristers to produce their
work.
Did you
know that the traditional Boy Choir is one of the few surviving classic
art forms that has survived virtually unchanged over thousands of years?
The
choir boys, their Choir Masters and the sponsoring institutions have
all
retained that relationship that has produced some of the most
astonishingly
beautiful music in the human experience. By all
rights, the traditional Boy Choir should have disappeared sometime
during
the last century, but it did not. Indeed, they have
thrived, attesting not only to their resiliency – but to their purity.
The
power that is derived from purity cannot be easily lost.
We are
determined NOT to repeat the already wonderful resources posted on the
web, simply to post their links for your convenience. There are
more
than a handful of awesome sites dedicated to various aspects of
preserving
and enhancing the Boy Choir tradition and we have no desire to
duplicate
their exhaustive and awesome work - but we will help you find your way
to them!
What
can you expect from BCM?
We
have a five-fold purpose in our quest to describe and highlight the 21st
century classical Boy Choir art form that has existed for millennia:
1.
To
sensitively take an up-close look at the choristers through one-on-one
interviews.
2. To interview the chorister’s
parents or guardians in order to observe the “other side” of the Choir
Boy’s life.
3. To interview the Choir Masters
and view the genre from their eyes as the human glue that holds this
art
form together from generation to generation.
4. To interview and examine in depth
the many webmasters and their unsung, often heroic efforts and
activities
and to point our readers toward them.
5. To make our readers aware of
upcoming concerts and activities.
Just
as we have a five-fold purpose, there is also a list of things
Boy Choir
Magazine is not:
1. Boy
Choir Magazine is not Choir Boy Magazine. While they
are certainly one of our focuses, the chorister is but one of the many
essential parts of the art. We hope to bring our readers
a balanced view of all of its splendid diversity and many equally
essential
parts.
2. BCM
is most assuredly not a 21st century boy band magazine.
3. BCM
is not primarily focused on any nationality – we recognize the Boy
Choir
as a gift from heaven given to all mankind.
4. BCM
is not oriented or slanted toward any religious viewpoint, doctrine or
denomination.
5. Boy Choir Magazine is not a
for-profit
enterprise. Eventually, we will seek IRS
501(c)3 certification. But until then, we have dropped
“contribute-if-you-want-to” buttons to help us pay for things like web
presence and the many contracted images you see on the site.
Already
we have scheduled travel and other expenses associated with the effort
and will continue to do so. In the end, we have
taken this on by faith and the inevitable joy.
6. This is not a place where you
will ever find a critique of any choir or any individual. The
world has enough critics already and most certainly does not need
another.
We wish to open the doors and focus on the individual boy choristers,
their
Choir Masters, the parents, former choristers and the sponsors of this
great tradition, let you hear directly from them and allow them to
share
with you what they have to say. We want to point you to
resources.
And if you just recently discovered the wonder of Boy Choirs, we desire
to show you around this astonishingly beautiful heaven-on-earth and
show
off its majestic tapestry. We very much want to make this an
adventure - a magical journey in real
time and real space - and we very much want to make it fun!
Please
check back frequently. We know we can’t publish an issue once a
week.As
we start off, our issues will be developed bi-monthly, but we very much
wish to eventually launch monthly issues. But to make sure we
stay
in touch much more frequently than once every other month, BCM
also has a web log site that you can check as news and events come in
between
issues. We are hoping to post articles here
at least once per week or more frequently as required.
It is
so awesome to begin this venture! We most sincerely pray you will
stay with us and enjoy this web based magazine as it begins.
PS.
If you want to know more about 'us' and 'we' - click here.
Dennis Chamberland,
Editor
Perceptum Utor Reservo Amor Melior
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always be!
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