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The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus is the choral ensemble of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Founded in 1976 by Margaret Hawkins at the request of the MSO's second music director, Kenneth Schermerhorn, it was originally called the Wisconsin Conservatory Symphony Chorus owing to its joint sponsorship with the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and fulfilled the MSO's need for a chorus of consistent quality. It became the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus in 1985 when it was formally incorporated into the institutional structure of the MSO. The chorus consists of some 150 auditioned voices from various backgrounds, with certain members making up a specially auditioned professional core along with a small number of alternate core members. Chorus auditions are held in June and August for the fall semester and in early January for the spring semester. Following Hawkins' death in 1993, directorship of the chorus passed to her protégé, Lee Erickson, who held the Margaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair, funded in honor of Hawkins during the chorus' 30th anniversary year in 2006, until his retirement from the position at the end of the 2015-2016 season. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwauk...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
