The choir of Scotts Valley High School received a $750 Caralyn Steinberg grant from the Gold Standard Chorus. The money will be used to help pay for an accompanist.
To support choral music in our schools, her family established the grant fund in memory of Caralyn Steinberg. Caralyn was an enthusiastic member of the Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus from 2005, until her death in December of 2009.
St. Francis Central Coast Catholic HS received a similar grant, which will be used to purchase risers for the music room.
This is the final year of the grant program that saw $7,400 in grants distributed to the high school music programs of Santa Cruz County.
For information about the Gold Standard Chorus please visit www.scbarbershop.org.
The Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus (GSBC) is the Santa Cruz chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS). Both GSBC and BHS are non-profit organizations dedicated to “keeping the whole world singing.” GSBC delivers Valengrams in February, puts on an annual cabaret show in June, hosts SING FOR YOUR LIFE, a youth outreach show in November, and sings carols in hospitals and retirement homes in December. Each semester, GSBC sends quartets into the county’s high schools to demonstrate barbershop music, one of America’s indigenous music forms.