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Only one local voice price is published anywhere we could find. York College of Pennsylvania's community music school teaches voice to students of all ages and publishes its rates: about thirty dollars for a half-hour lesson and about fifty-eight to sixty for a full hour, bought in blocks of six or twelve, plus a one-time forty-dollar registration fee. Everybody else asks you to call - the music store on Springwood Road, School of Rock on South Richland Avenue, the studio over in Red Lion. One York teacher offers a free trial lesson. We offer one too, and you will know our rate ahead of any commitment.
A voice and a week. There is a striking piece of local evidence for how little that has to do with any formal apparatus. The York County Music Teachers Association's find-a-teacher directory lists nine teachers, seven of them piano, and voice is not even one of the filter options on the page. That does not mean this city has no singing teachers. It means the formal apparatus around singing here is far thinner than the one around the keyboard, and an adult searching the obvious local directory finds nothing at all.
Most children can begin around seven, provided the lessons stay short. Through the change of voice a teacher stops being optional, and that is precisely the point at which most people stop. Grown-ups face no ceiling whatever. The city of York runs about seven years younger than its county - a median in the low thirties against forty-one - so the adult beginner here is more often somebody in the middle of working life than somebody retired.
Breath support shifts within a month. Carrying a whole song before an audience is a matter of several months. Reading well enough to pass an audition that specifically tests reading, which the York Symphony Chorus does, takes longer than either, and depends on hours put in rather than weeks gone by.
Yes, and in York the case makes itself on the calendar. Every organized option meets on one fixed weekday evening, and all but the barbershop chorus run September to May and stop for the summer. York County's biggest employer is a hospital. The transit authority itself advertises jobs on hours between three in the afternoon and seven in the morning. The buses are weekday and Saturday. If your week does not repeat, a season that assumes it does will not fit you - and an hour that moves will.
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William Penn Senior High School, the public high school in the city of York, has done it three times. In 1957 five of its students formed a group called the Quinteros, renamed themselves the Quin-Tones, and in 1958 put "Down the Aisle of Love" at number five on the Billboard R&B chart and number twenty on the Hot 100, with Roberta Haymon singing lead. Three decades later four more of its students - Ed Kowalczyk, Chad Taylor, Chad Gracey and Patrick Dahlheimer, who met in a York middle school and had been playing together since 1984 - became Live and sold more than twenty million albums. The jazz saxophonist Tim Warfield went there too. One public high school in one small Pennsylvania city, three times over.
Because this city has an unusually good adult singing map and it is arranged by night rather than by ability. Monday: the York Symphony Chorus at half past seven at Heidelberg United Church of Christ on West Philadelphia Street, adult, auditioned, for singers who read music - and the same evening at half past six, the York County Gospel Choir at Church of the Open Door, which states in writing that no experience is necessary and does not charge a penny. Wednesday: the Chancel Choir at First Presbyterian on East Market Street, seven until half past eight, open to anyone aged fourteen or over. Thursday: the adult choir at St. Mary's at seven, and the White Rose Chorus at half past seven out on Springwood Road, a men's barbershop chapter chartered here in 1946 and singing under this name since 1986, named for the same white rose that Lancaster's Red Rose Chorus answers. Add Union Lutheran on West Market Street, whose adult choir says outright that the ability to read music is helpful but not at all necessary, and whose rehearsal night you have to get from Matthew Wensel. Three of those ask for no prior experience at all, though the gospel choir runs a short audition at six before the half past six rehearsal, and the barbershop chorus publishes no policy either way. Most of them run September to May and go dark for the summer; the barbershop chorus is the exception and rehearses straight through July and August. Several of those pages have not been touched in a while, so phone before you turn up. And with over a third of the city Hispanic or Latino, the Spanish-language congregations on Queen, Duke and Belvidere run their own music every week, which no chorus directory captures at all.
Look at that list again and notice what every option on it has in common. They are all ensembles. The best of them asks you to arrive already able to read, hold a line and learn quickly, which is a fair standard and also a wall. Nothing on the list gives one hour to one voice, and that is the hour that gets a person over the wall.
Breath, first and for longer than you expect. Then reading - actually reading, at speed, because that is the specific thing this city's best chorus tests for. Then tone that carries in a stone church without force, and the sixteen bars of a show you could walk into an audition holding. The Belmont Theatre opens A Chorus Line this September, billed as the fiftieth-anniversary production, and that is a show about exactly this ordeal.
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One design goal above all: your voice arrives at the other end unimproved. No smoothing, no forgiving room, nothing added along the way. That is what lets a teacher catch the flaw mid-phrase and name it on the spot.
Lois Hunt was born here in November 1924, began singing in elementary school, worked with coaches in Philadelphia, won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air in 1949, and sang Adele, Papagena, Musetta and Lauretta at the Met before spending four decades recording with the baritone Earl Wrightson. Dominick Argento was born here to Sicilian immigrant parents and took the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Music for a song cycle - a prize won for writing for the singing voice. Del McCoury was born in North Carolina, but his family moved to this county in 1941 when he was two, and he has since collected thirty-one bluegrass awards and two Grammys. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm comes from Red Lion, a borough of six thousand a few miles down the road. And the place calls itself the first capital of the United States, on the strength of the Continental Congress sitting here from September 1777 to June 1778 and adopting the Articles of Confederation - a claim that surfaced in the early 1960s and one that most historians, this county's own included, decline to accept.
Wherever the shift leaves you - York, Red Lion, Dallastown, Spring Grove, Thomasville, Stewartstown, Glen Rock or Hanover - the hour reaches you there.
Across York County, on the state's most recent count, four of the five largest employers are health systems or government, and the biggest of all is a hospital. It is still a manufacturing county too: an armored vehicle plant at ninth, Harley-Davidson at tenth, a snack-food cluster spanning Utz, Snyder's-Lance and Stauffer, and the air-conditioning business the world's YORK units are named after at twenty-sixth. The local transit authority advertises maintenance work on hours between three in the afternoon and seven in the morning, and its own buses run weekdays and Saturdays. Now set that beside the singing calendar: one fixed weekday evening, one term a year, September through May. Miss the night and you miss the season. Downtown parking, at least, is free on the street after five.
Take the free hour first. Bring the song you would sing if nobody had asked you to prepare one.
This is a place where the singing is genuinely available and genuinely rigid - four nights, no prior experience wanted on most of them, and, for all but the barbershop chorus, a hard stop from June to August. A weekly hour that moves is what makes the rest of it usable. Start at home, in York.
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