Anna Crusis Women's Choir

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rdf:langString Anna Crusis Women's Choir, I Ain't Afraid, with Holly Near, 2017

rdf:langString Jacqueline Coren, The Anna Crusis Women's Choir: Directing a Choir , MIND TV

rdf:langString Catherine Roma, Anna Crusis in Philadelphia is where all the sparks began to happen, GALA Choruses

rdf:langString Miriam Davidson, Women feel like Anna gives them a place to be strong, to have a voice, to have a sense of sisterhood, GALA Choruses

rdf:langString Anna Crusis Women's Choir, The Anna Crusis Women's Choir: A Feminist Choir, MIND TV

rdf:langString The Anna Crusis Women's Choir is the oldest existing feminist choir in the United States, and is considered to be a founder of the North American LGBT choral movement. It was established by Catherine Roma in 1975 in Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Including both lesbian and straight women, Anna Crusis is the earliest formed of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA) and the first women's chorus to become a member of GALA. The choir is named, not for a person, but for anacrusis, a musical term for "the unaccented – or 'feminine' – upbeat that sets the stage for a downbeat." The choir focuses on music by, for and about women, and has commissioned pieces from a variety of composers. It also recovers and performs historical pieces by women composers.