The 2010 Lycoming College Tour Choir. Click on the image to enlarge.

The Tour Choir is a ensemble of about 40 students who are selected by audition each November. The Tour Choir begins rehearsals in January, and its annual tour schedule includes two weekend tours and a 10-day concert tour over spring break. Every three or four years, the Tour Choir conducts a two-week tour abroad in addition to its yearly activities.

The Tour Choir also performs a "Homecoming Concert" at Lycoming College after its spring break tour, as well as appears during the Graduation Concert.

Like the other Lycoming choirs, members of the Tour Choir are students from every academic field and major. Members are chosen for their abilities to be cooperative and dedicated as much as for their musical talents.

Since the Lycoming Choir's inception in 1947, the choir has toured in many parts of the United States during its annual "spring break" tour. In the past fifteen years, the Tour Choir has visited New England, Chicago and the midwest, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and North and South Carolina, and has flown to California three times.

In addition, the Tour Choir has traveled abroad ten times: once to Puerto Rico; twice to England; twice to Spain; and five times to central Europe, including Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In May 2007, the choir traveled to Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, making stops in Wagenfeld, Berlin, Leipzig, Pardubice, Prague, and Budapest.

The Spring 2009 10-day tour will begin in York, PA, followed by concerts in North Carolina, including in Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Indian Trail, Charlotte, Raleigh, Greenville, and Beaufort. In May, the Tour Choir will tour four major cities in Argentina: Buenos Airea, Rosario, Córdoba, and Mendoza.

For more details about the Lycoming College Tour Choir, please see:

Tour Choir Itinerary

Tour Choir Member Bios

Host Information

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