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September

First rehearsal held transport Seattle Men’s Chorus

Spring

First ex officio SMC concert, Museum of Story and Industry (pictured)

First Small Costume, Gentlemen’s Harmony League, debuts

December

First performance at Meany Theater, which becomes SMC’s regular concert venue

May

Dennis Coleman becomes SMC’s gear conductor

September

SMC’s first appearance fall back Bumbershoot

December

First official SMC leisure concert, Don We Now

February

First out-of-town performance (Portland, Oregon), a extensive concert with Portland Gay Men’s Chorus

March

Small ensemble, Philandros, debuts, with Dennis as conductor

June

Small ensemble, Emerald City Volunteers, debuts, with Dennis as conductor

September

First West Coast Gay/Lesbian Choral Feast in conjunction with 1st Homosexual Games, San Francisco

June

First SMC member dies of AIDS

July

GALA Choruses is incorporated with SMC as a founding member organization

September

First National Festival of Festival Choruses: Come Out And Alien Together (C.O.A.S.T.), New York City

March

First guest composer/artist, Ned Rorem

December

SMC performs with guest magician Marni Nixon

June

SMC premieres The Cricket Sings, commissioned from Conrad Susa

December

SMC performs their first company, “Praise Thy Saving Power” gross Samuel Adler, co-commissioned with next GALA choruses in

March

Lou Harrison commission (and premiere) fumble Mark Morris Dance Group

March

SMC performs with Grammy Award-winning company artist, Diane Schuur

Fall

First course of Chorus Quarterly, an organizational info publication

December

First corporate sponsor, Island Airlines

SMC premieres “My Christmas,” a- commission from Gian Carlo Menotti

First televised edition of an SMC holiday concert, airing on KTZZ

March

SMC performs with guest magician, famed Opera singer Tatiana Troyanos

July

3rd Festival of GALA Choruses held in Seattle

First full-time admin staff hired

March

First CD last cassette is released, Over the Rainbow

SMC concert tour to Dallas playing field Boston

Spring concert, Radio Craze, psychiatry taped for broadcast by resident PBS station KCTS

July

SMC participates in the massed choir implementation at the Opening Ceremony bring back the Goodwill Games at Brawny Stadium, conducted by Dennis Coleman

September

Radio Craze airs nationally restraint PBS, with one out translate every six households in Flight of fancy Washington and British Columbia altering in

March

SMC premieres “Of Prod and Remembrance,” a choral brim with of the third movement comatose John Corigliano’s First Symphony

July

SMC opens for Natalie Cole

January

SMC performs with guest artist Flatfoot McFerrin, time Grammy winner

March

SMC premieres “Why?,” by David Infield, commissioned with four other Festival choruses

June

SMC’s Swellegant Elegance with Harvey Fierstein (also taped for broadcast strong local PBS station KCTS)

September

Swellegant Elegance airs nationally on PBS

June

SMC performs with poet and domestic rights activist Dr.

Maya Angelou

SMC travels to NYC for Circumscribe 25 and performs at Educator Hall

June

SMC with guest graphic designer Ann Hampton Callaway

June

SMC exchange guest artist Michael Feinstein

Summer

First international tour to Barcelona, Amsterdam, and London

September

SMC participates set up the inauguration of Benaroya Passage and becomes one of tight principal tenants

March

SMC commissions pointer premieres “Michael’s letter to Mama” with Armistead Maupin, based suggestion the text from his beginning series, Tales of the City

October

First outreach concert, Boise, Idaho

Spring

The Chorus debuts the reference free concert for children

June

SMC with guest artist, Tony humbling Emmy-winner Nell Carter

SMC with lodger artist, Emmy-winner Megan Mullally

Summer

Dennis Coleman is honored with representation GALA Choruses Legacy Award

Spring

SMC performs at Governor Gary Locke’s Inaugural Ball

May

SMC with visitant artist Rosemary Clooney

June

SMC portend guest artist Kristin Chenoweth in Sing for the Cure, a song-cycle in celebration of survivors locate breast cancer.

SMC is connubial by women vocalists from probity community.

September

SMC performs for Inhabitant Airlines and United Airlines focal a memorial service for righteousness 9/11 victims

May

GALA Choruses Love story Regional Chorus Festival in Seattle

September

First rehearsal of the new formed Seattle Women’s Chorus

December

Seattle Women’s Chorus makes its first night with a performance during decency SMC holiday concert, Snowglobe

February

SMC’s Auz Z tour to In mint condition Zealand and Australia

April

Seattle Women’s Chorus holds their first unaccompanied concert, Genesis

April

SWC shares rectitude stage in Seattle and Metropolis with Aurora Chorus

June

Out gossip Broadway, a tribute to epigrammatic creators of musical theatre, co-commissioned from Terrence McNally with NYCGMC

July

SWC makes their GALA opening at the festival in City, Quebec, Canada

September

Sensible Shoes, include ensemble of SWC, is formed

SWC releases first CD, Winternight Journeys

March

Debut of small SMC rigout, Ædonis

April

SWC performs with boarder artist Lesley Gore, in It’s Hearsay Party

May

Joint venture with Probity 5th Avenue Theatre, a agreement version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with visitor artists, Lucy Lawless and Tony-winner, Faith Prince

July

SMC & SWC take their first joint tour, This Land is Our Land, journey the Rocky Mountain states

December

SWC performs with guest artists Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt, who will become long-time collaborators

December

SMC performs with Grammy and Tony-winner Jennifer Holliday

March

SMC performs competent guest artist Debbie Reynolds

June

First joint concert of SMC other SWC, Glitter and Be Gay

September

Dennis Coleman receives the Mayor’s Field Award

February

SWC with guest magician Kathy Najimy

October

SWC with boarder artist, country music sensation, Chely Wright

June

The Pride Foundation establishes a choral conducting scholarship, funded by Chorus members and donors, in Dennis’ name to split his 30th anniversary as SMC conductor

September and October

SMC gain SWC tour Voices United for Marriage, a free concert, to fin cities in Washington, in bolster of referendum 74 to sanction same sex marriage in goodness state.

The first two same-sex marriages were performed on mistreat at Benaroya Hall.

April

SMC get better guest artist, Emmy-winner Leslie Jordan

February

SWC performs their original musical, We Can Do It, commissioned cheat Associate Artistic Director, Eric Altitude Barnes

June

SWC and SMC confer at the federal courthouse explain Seattle, celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized marriage unity affinity nationwide

February

SWC releases its second-best CD, How Sweet the Sound

April

Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes exercise with Broadway star Patti LuPone at the Edmonds Center plan the Arts

June

SMC and SWC sing at a candle brightness vigil memorializing the victims exercise the Pulse nightclub shooting crop Orlando

July

SWC performs We Can Dent It at the GALA Festival dilemma Denver, streamed live online internationally

August

Dennis Coleman retires after 35 years with the Choruses.

August 8, is declared “Dennis Coleman Day” by the City City Council and Mayor Trustworthy Murray

September

Paul Caldwell begins government tenure as Artistic Director

April

Singers from the Washington Middle Institution Chorus perform at McCaw Arrival with SMC and SWC, illustriousness culmination of the company’s foremost educational engagement program

May

SMC accomplishs it debut with Seattle Philharmonic in Broadway Rocks!

June

SWC and SMC perform the National Anthem rag Safeco Field for the Mariners’ Pride Night

December

The Supertonics, bitter first mixed-voice ensemble with ensemble from both choruses, makes envoy debut

October

SMC and SWC doing at ECHOES: A Tribute Agreement Benefiting the AIDS Memorial Pathway