By Emma Dunn   SWINDON, UK — Singers, musicians and patrons who have hit the high notes with the Kentwood Show Choir over the years are being invited to a reunion.  The choir, which started 48 years ago with just five members, will be reuniting past and present members at Wroughton Club, in Devizes Road, Wroughton, in […]

By Jessica Leigh Lobos   SAVANNAH — They came, they sang, they conquered. After months of practice and fundraising, the Savannah Children’s Choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale, held in Italy last month.  Also known as “The Days of International Song,” the competition takes place every April in the […]

The Summer Chorus of RI and SE MA  has just posted on its web site (WWW.SUMMERCHORUS.ORG) a listing of the pieces which will be studied and performed in 2012.

LOS ANGELES — Last week, Zipcar and Ford Motor Company announced the conclusion of the first year of their grant programme – Students with Drive. The companies donated a total $300,000 to student organisations at universities across the US. Choral Activities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) was recognised last Monday as the grand […]

By Spencer Lloyd   NEW YORK — My students’ faces lit up as we rounded the corner into Times Square. The ManualAires, an auditioned choir from Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis, had come to New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall. If the reality had not yet sunk in for these Midwestern high school […]

By Jeff Danna   GLENBROOK, IL — Glenbrook North High School students Rachel Samett and Michayla Van Treeck have worked behind the scenes on past theater production’s. But those smaller shows were just preparation for their work on this spring’s large-scale musical, “The Phantom of the Opera.” “It’s not (been) as intense as this show,” said […]