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Are you a singing lawyer, paralegal, legal proofreader/secretary, legal administrator or law student with an altruistic as well as artistic spirit? Would you like to join a flexible, congenial singing group honored for its excellence in public service and featured on NY1 News as "New Yorker of the Week" for "lifting spirits with its music"? Would you enjoy singing sophisticated arrangements of great music (ranging from jazz to gospel and from Broadway to the Beatles) for those at senior residences, hospitals, rehab centers and other venues in need of musical cheer? The City Bar Chorus ("CBC") has openings for new members in all sections (especially tenors, baritones and basses). Our next auditions (brief, private and low-pressure) will be held in late August and early September 2009.

We rehearse two or three Tuesday evenings per month, from 6:45 to 8:15, in midtown Manhattan (Radio City/Rockefeller Center area) to produce what our audiences describe as a rich, professional-quality sound. In addition, we provide a venue for like-minded legal professionals to meet and sing together in a warm, fun and supportive environment offering many social and business networking opportunities.

The CBC's just-ending 16th season has included a gala 15th anniversary concert at the House of the Association; a tribute to Judith Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, at the St. Regis Hotel; a long-anticipated, standing-room-only joint performance with its Scottish counterpart, the Faculty of Advocates Choir of Edinburgh; and more than 10 concerts for residents of senior residences, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and other community venues.

Music-reading or sight-reading ability is helpful but not required if you have a "good ear." While many of our members have prior choral experience, some of our best performers got their start singing karaoke — or in the shower!

If you work in a law firm, corporate or government law department, court, law school or any other legal setting (whether as a lawyer or non–lawyer) and would like to join us in the 17th season of our rewarding musical outreach mission, please e-mail us at sarah.richards@avon.com