An international choral event to extol the values of solidarity, peace and understanding!
Thousands of choirs have joined in the celebration of World Choral Day (WCD) on or around the 2nd Sunday in December in the past twenty years. Millions of singers across the globe have been involved in World Choral Day concerts, festivals, sing-alongs, choral seminars, Days of Friendship and other events.
The World Choral Day is an initiative of Alberto Grau from the Latin American Vice-Presidency of the International Federation for Choral Music, proposed and approved by the General Assembly of IFCM held in Helsinki in August, 1990, within the framework of the 2nd World Symposium on Choral Music:
The world is living through severe and continuous crisis of self destruction. There are no possible reasons that can justify these actions. The majority of the human race wants to live in peace with dignity. It is time to show, with more power and strength, that our choral family contributes, through music to break down the artificial barriers product of politics, different ideologies, religious differences, and racial hatred that separate human beings. We must be able to show that MUSIC, the divine art, is more than the mere search of formal perfection and interpretative beauty, music should serve to extol the values of solidarity, peace, and understanding. We cannot work isolated, we have to make all possible efforts to have our voices heard and to let music work its own paths of communication.
The theme of the World Choral Day 2024 is Voices Uniting the Planet.
IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that this is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace, which is currently a pressing global need.
IFCM World Choir Day and Choirs for Ecocide Law (CFEL) will collaborate in order to ensure that World Choir Day is not only a platform for promoting peace, but also for promoting environmental sustainability.
Choirs for Ecocide Law is an artistic choral project, whose main purpose is to spread awareness about the need to make large-scale environmental destruction (ecocide) an international crime. Download the leaflet.
In addition to reading the World Choral Day Proclamation and singing the World Choral Day Anthem during their WCD events, choirs and ensembles around the world may or may not include one or several of the following options:
IFCM will organise two more webinars in collaboration with Choirs for Ecocide Law on the World Choral Day (8 December 2024):
For those situated in the Eastern time zones (8 December 2024 at 8AM CET):
Register on https://bit.ly/IFCMcafeDec2024-East
Join us on https://bit.ly/WCD-CFEL-Dec2024-East
For those situated in the Western time zones (8 December 2024 at 8PM CET):
Register on https://bit.ly/IFCMcafeDec2024-West
Join us on: https://bit.ly/WCD-CFEL-Dec2024-West
Official magazine of the International Federation for Choral Music, the International Choral Magazine is published quarterly in the four official languages of IFCM: English, French, German and Spanish. It is distributed in more than 80 countries on the five continents and is the official voice of choral music around the world.
Read moreOur focus at the moment is to unite the choral calendars of international choral organisations. Meanwhile please consult the calendar of choral events published by the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat here.
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