By jeff Seidel   DETROIT — Retire? After a measly 50 years? Bite your tongue. Ed Kingins is just getting started. For the last 50 years, he has been the music director at Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit. Think about that — 50 years at one job. Amazing. “I don’t feel old,” says Kingins, who […]

By Bill Laitner   DETROIT — Countless schools have eliminated vocal music — a gap that the Detroit Children’s Choir is starting to fill in Detroit. “If children don’t have things like singing in their lives, if they’re just existing, we’re going to pay for that in the future,” choir director Carol Schoch said. Schoch, 60, […]

By Ross Amico   TRENTON, NJ — For more than six decades, since its publication in 1946, Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” has stood as one of the most poignant accounts to emerge from the Holocaust.  Written by Frank over a period of two years, while her family lived in secret rooms atop […]

We remember the late Gerre Hancock as the show begins with his arrangement of Christus Vincit and concludes with a performance of Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem.   Please remind your students that we air a Bach cantata every Sunday at approximately 9 a.m. eastern.   The show airs each Sunday at 8 a.m. eastern on 89.7 […]

THEY say music is a great healer. It certainly rings true for Julie Pavett. S WALES, UK — When the mum of two was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer, she admits she shut down and refused to accept the illness.  When she found a lump on her breast she spent weeks hoping it would […]