The Antioch Chorus toured Europe in 1973 and 1975. This university choir of about 50 singers made high-quality recordings while on tour in France and Italy. For some of these compositions, it was the first-ever recording. After a reunion and concert in 1996, a CD was produced from the original tapes of each tour.

Reunion 2008
Mark your calendars now for the fourth weekend of June, 2008.

The idea is to add our reunion to the regular Antioch College reunion held each June – to be a bubble within the bubble. The exact dates will be announced by Antioch in the Fall. This was our strategy in 1996, and worked well for us.

Over the next year, we'll need to:
1. work with the college to help update our contact info for chorus members;
2. plan a schedule for the reunion week (last time we began arriving on a Wednesday, started rehearsing immediately, had our big dinner event on Friday, then performed in Kelly Hall on Saturday evening);
3. find leaders for each of the areas of the reunion, for example, the music, food and wine;
4. get each of us to lobby his or her chorus friends to attend; and
5. all the other stuff.

About this site
This site contains information on the CDs, the tours themselves and about John Ronsheim. Many of John Ronsheim's thoughts on music and life can be found in the liner notes.

MP3s are here! All of the music on our CDs are now available for free download. All of the pieces are available in high-quality (192 Mbps) MP3 format. There are also low-fidelity samples for folks with slow Internet access. Of course, you can still purchase the CDs!

Check out the photo tours in the Photo Gallery. There are 9 tours in all, totalling over 80 pictures, including reunion photos and pics from the 1998 events in San Francisco and Seattle.

We're linked! Todd M. McComb has listed both the 1973 and 1975 CDs at the Medieval Music & Arts Foundation (medieval.org) site. A large part of that site is devoted to early music. Be sure to check out Pierre-F. Roberge's comprehensive Ockeghem discography where our CDs are cross-referenced.

Thanks to members and friends of the chorus, we have recovered the CD costs. Income beyond costs will used to support chorus projects and reunions. Chorus members, to submit something for this site, please email Rick Ray.