Abstract
Since its founding in 1963, the Romanian National Chamber Choir, Madrigal, has received international honors and praise for performing Renaissance works, twentieth-century avant garde compositions, and Romanian folksongs and carols (colinde), within Romania and abroad. While the choir served an important role as a musical ambassador of Romania both during and after the Cold War, scholarship about this state-supported ensemble has been dominated by a discourse of praise that excludes critical considerations of the choir's political history. Based on fieldwork with Madrigal and archival study in Romania, this article examines connections between national ideology during the presidency of Nicolae Ceauşescu (1965–89) and Madrigal's politics of prestige, including the role of the choir's repertoire in the state-sponsored projection of national image on the international concert stage.
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