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This is, no doubt, George W. Bush’s fault, right?
Didn’t they turn down an appearance for Glenn Beck’s Christmas Special?
It is sad. I once saw a live performance by the choir; it was awesome.
I someone had just read the stimulus plan, I’m sure somewhere around page #1,548 is a few million with their name on it.
Sad. I hope they can rejuvenate this program.
Those faggots have an impact in everything they touch!
Because as we all know, gifted singers can only come from middle and upper income groups.
The soft bigotry of low expectations rears its ugly head again.
Whether or not this guy was actually guilty, isn't it strange that whenever this happens in a GOOD organization, it becomes a terrible scandal that is used to shut down the organization. Yet here we are now, and Obama's Safe School Czar wants to teach ALL our kids to do this sort of thing, and evidently that's OK.
Democrats do it, that's politically correct. Christians do it, throw the book at them and use it as an excuse to destroy all of them, not just the guilty parties.
Is sex with minors OK, or isn't it? And can we stop using it as an excuse to destroy all the best things in our civilization instead of dealing specifically with the problem?
I remember the Harlem Boys Choir well, and I'm very sorry to hear about this. One more decent institution down the drain.
Off topic, but did anyone here see “Sing Off” a contest show for a cappella choirs done on the format of American Idol? The Sunday before Christmas they ran a mini-marathon of Sing Off all day, but they stopped before the final show. The final show was supposed to run on Monday, but it wasn’t there. Does anyone know who won?
The 3 finalists were “Nota” — a group (about 6) of Puerto Rican males who were outstanding with their use of vocal percussion, “The Beezulbubs” — about 12 crazy guys from Tufts U in Boston, and the “Voices of Lee” a mixed choir from a college in TN.
I started out thinking that Nota was just a bunch of thugs, but I really became enchanted with their music. Their version of “Staying Alive” was fantastic!
Seems to me that finances should not be a problem. I just don't get it.
This is a natural write-off for so many organizations, corporations, UNIONS, etc.
Besides a conductor/teacher/recruiter, they need a community organizer.
That’s very sad news, indeed. Music is such a positive force in people’s lives. Young people who want to participate in a music program should have a chance.
Enough said!!
Harlem was one of the great incubators of American music until the kids all decided they wanted to emulate Snoop Dog
Well, as it is called the Boys Choir of Harlem, that is hardly surprising.
Since Clinton was the first ‘black president’ and has an office in Harlem—let him take up the cause.
The choir’s demise as a functional organization was a result of many factors, but everyone agrees it was set in motion by a single episode: an accusation by a 14-year-old boy in 2001 that a counselor on the choir’s staff had sexually abused him. The counselor eventually was sentenced to two years in prison.
The accusation and the scandal that followed — Dr. Turnbull did not report the claim to the authorities and allowed the counselor to continue working with children — set off a chain of events that led the city to oust the choir in 2006 from the Choir Academy of Harlem, the school building that had been its home. That, in turn, deepened the choir’s already serious financial problems.
Owing millions in payroll taxes and penalties, and immersed in a lawsuit stemming from the abuse accusations, the board of the Boys Choir gathered in the months after Dr. Turnbull’s death, said Howard Dodson, the leader of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Mr. Dodson was brought onto the board, along with former Mayor David N. Dinkins, in an effort to save the choir.
Hopefully this choir will come back, maybe in another name.