The National Children's Chorus might be the coolest kid choir ever: Students get to record at Abbey Road Studios and maybe even win Grammys.
Over the past few decades, it’s become way more accessible — and acceptable — to be a young musician. That age-old image, a “turn that damn music down” yelp from your overworked dad with a combover from the living room as he watches the news, is a cliché from '80s and '90s culture that has all but ceased to exist.
, and private lessons through places such as School of Rock and Zound Sounds School of Music, now Dallas kids with an interest in choral music have a great after-school program to join. Even better, the program travels, tours internationally and affords its advanced students an opportunity to record at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London.
“We needed a complete shift. so I moved to New York and restructured the whole program,” McEndarfer says. “In 2010, my first rehearsal had four students and now we have over 360. I was also the only employee, and now there are over 100.” The Dallas chapter accepts children ages 5–18 and offers seven different levels of education, including an advanced traveling class. The group meets for practice at First United Methodist Church in Preston Hollow and is holdingWithin just a year, the Dallas chapter of the National Children’s Chorus has already made an impression with McEndarfer and is quickly growing. Every single advanced student of the Dallas chapter made the last traveling tour and had an opportunity to record at Abbey Road.
Although the academy mainly focuses on teaching classical music and contemporary music by The Beatles, modern composers such as Nico Muhly, Eric Whitacre and Sarah Quartel are commissioned by McEndarfer to add another layer to the cultural imprint the school helps sustain.
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