PORTLAND, OR — The University of Portland community is mourning the loss of Roger O. Doyle, a colorful and beloved professor of music at the University of Portland for nearly forty years and cheerful sturdy pillar of the music community in Portland, who died Monday, April 30 of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS, “Lou […]
Children’s choir helping other children
By Lindsay Seewalt COCHRANE, AB — Kids helping kids. For Erica Phare-Bergh, the Kids Helping Kids benefit concert being held at Cochrane Alliance Church on May 5, beginning at 7 p.m. serves a two-fold cause: to benefit the participating choir children and to help the vastly underprivileged members of the Music for Life School in […]
Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer Among 2012 Creative Bravos! Honorees
In March 2012, Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer was honored with one of Creative Albuquerque’s Bravos! Awards, recognizing artisitc innovation, entrepreneurship, and community impact. Greer was appointed Quintessence’s Artistic Director in 2009. Since 2003, Greer has served as Director of Music and Worship Arts at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, where he directs […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, May 6, 2012
Of interest on Great Sacred Music this Sunday is Mattins as it might be sung in an English cathedral. That’s in the first half hour. Then Heinrich Franz Biber’s monumental 53 voice Salzburg Mass airs at approximately 9:40 a.m. eastern. The show airs each Sunday at 8 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in central […]
“TE DEUM IN C” by Carl Czerny for SATB choir
HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Here is my newest published edition, the first ever modern performing edition of Carl Czerny’s “TE DEUM IN C”, available with both vocal score and instrumental parts, based on the autograph score held in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. For more information, go to the link below, click on the […]
HS choir performs Grammy winning piece
By Ryan Howe MT VERNON, IN — The pressure is on. The Mt. Vernon High School Fine Arts Academy Choir has worked for months on Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin’s “Calling All Dawns.” Tin will join the audience whenthe students perform his music at 2 p.m. Sunday in the high school auditorium with members of the […]