Dale Warland Singers

The Dale Warland Singers were among the preeminent small-to-medium-sized choirs in the U.S. during their three decades of existence. The Singers specialized in contemporary music, commissioning and performing a large variety of new choral works. The Dale Warland Singers were formed in 1974 by Dale Warland, the son of farmers who had established a choir of his own at Minnesota's St. Olaf College. Teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was asked in 1972 by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to assemble a 40-voice choir for a program of contemporary music. W...