GRANTS: What protest? Santa Ana’s Pacific Chorale...

GRANTS: What protest? Santa Ana’s Pacific Chorale is the latest local arts group to accept grants from the embattled National Endowment for the Arts. After signing a controversial anti-obscenity pledge, the chorale will receive $11,500. . . . The pledge isn’t really applicable, said chorale executive director Bonnie McClain, who notes: “It’s not real easy to find obscenity in chorale music.”