By Steve Siegel BETHLEHEM, PA — If passion for great choral music could be measured in miles, then Blaine Shover, founder and director of the Concord Chamber Singers, would run rings around all of us. Since 1971, from September to June, Shover has made a weekly 260-mile round trip from his Shippensburg home to Wesley […]
Frances Fowler Slade ends tenure on high note
By Ross Amico PRINCETON — After 33 years, Frances Fowler Slade is stepping down as artistic director of Princeton Pro Musica. However, it is not without mixed emotions. “I announced that I wanted to step down this spring 18 months ago,” she says, “and it seemed like it was so far in the future. And […]
“Lazy Afternoon” – new arrangement
Friends, This is both a print and mp3 annoucnement. A local composer just set “Lazy Afternoon” for us and we did it in concert last weekend and it’s GORGEOUS! The song begins: It’s a lazy afternoon And the beetle bugs are zooming And the tulip trees are blooming t’s SATB a cappella. The […]
ChoirPlace – website for choirs from all over the world
ChoirPlace is a website for choirs and choral music lovers from all over the world. It contains a choral video collection, blogs and choir directory – all of them posted by the site users. You’re most invited to take a look at the site, explore its content and add your choirs & […]
Blue Heron announces release of world premiere recording
Blue Heron announces release of world premiere recording Nicholas Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi Part of a Major Project to Release Five CD’s of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks: the largest extant source of Pre-Reformation English sacred music Blue Heron proudly announces the release of the second installment in its 5-CD series of music from […]
Gibbons brings excitement to Novi’s vocal music program
By Dana Corbit Nussio NOVI, MI — A group of teenagers, several dressed in “Legally Blonde” T-shirts, formed a circle in a classroom corner. While minutes before they'd arrived in class, bringing jokes from lunch and worries about unfinished stage sets along with them, now the busyness was forgotten as the Novi Singers joined together, […]