VocalEssence records
Scope and Content Note
This collection represents the history of VocalEssence through music commissioning documentation, Board of Director minutes and records, financial files, legal documents, fundraising records, education program resources, performance programs, and press materials. The collection includes both physical records as well as electronic records. The materials in the collection are unprocessed. Access to unprocessed materials is limited. Processing of the collection is ongoing, and materials are added to this finding aid as they become available. Please contact the curator for a more detailed inventory of the collection.
Dates
- 1969-2015
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions on Access
Collection contains unprocessed materials. Access to these materials may be limited. For more information please contact the Performing Arts Archives.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright is retained by the copyright holder.
Historical Note
VocalEssence is a Minneapolis-based choral organization, founded in 1969 by Philip Brunelle as a community music program of Plymouth Congregational Church named Plymouth Music Series. The organization changed its name to VocalEssence in 2002.
It has been the lifelong mission of artistic director Brunelle to promote the choral arts through rarely heard works of the past and adventurous music of the present. VocalEssence has grown into one of the world’s premier choral music organizations, and has focused on strengthening the local community in Minnesota through a variety of choral music programming, including performing ensembles, school curricula, elder learning initiatives, and advocacy projects.
Extent
144 boxes (144 linear feet)
287.2 Gigabytes (83,452 files)
Abstract
This collection represents the history of VocalEssence through music commissioning documentation, Board of Director minutes and records, financial files, legal documents, fundraising records, education program resources, performance programs, and press materials.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in the following series:
- Artistic
- Business
- Community Engagement
- Development
- Marketing
Physical Location
Printing Services
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Performing Arts Archives by the VocalEssence Board of Directors in 2015.
Processing Information
The collection was inventoried at the box level only. Please contact the curator for a more detailed inventory of the collection. The finding aid was written by Alli Mertins, 2015, with generous support from Creative Heritage Initiative donors.
- Brunelle, Philip
- Community theater Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Plymouth Music Series
- Theater Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Theater -- Production and direction Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Theater programs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- VocalEssence records
- Author
- Kathryn Hujda, Alli Mertins
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Performing Arts Archives Collecting Area
