Palo Alto, California — In its 45th year, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus (PWC) has forged a partnership with up-and-coming New York City composer Ted Hearne to produce “Ripple”, an exciting new commission for treble voice choir. Martín Benvenuto, artistic director of the PWC, approached Hearne with the request to “…give us something challenging, something […]
Children’s Song
Great new fun children’s song – The Snake Song. Audio and lead sheet available at www.kloser.us and video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9aaQ9iHxoA&feature=youtu.be Easy to play on guitar, uke or piano and fun to sing for children of all ages. Enjoy!
TITANIC VOYAGE – NEW from PHILIP STOPFORD for Children’s Choir!
April 2nd 2012 marks the precise hundredth anniversary of Titanic, the ‘Ship of Dreams,’ sailing to Southampton out of Belfast Lough. To commemorate this wonderful occasion, the Titanic Foundation have commissioned international composer Philip Stopford to write TITANIC VOYAGE, a short choral work for young voices, piano and solo instrument. The Queen of the […]
Leipzig Celebrates Eight Centuries of “Thomana”
LEIPZIG — Music-lovers have long flocked to Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, renowned throughout the world as the place where Johann Sebastian Bach was at his most prolific. As cantor of the church’s school, theschola thomana, from 1723 until his death in 1750, Bach produced an immense quantity and variety of compositions for organ, piano, and voice, recognized as […]
New auditorium named for longtime HS choral director
By Ron Banks LEXINGTON.NC — Just in case you missed it, the Lexington Senior High School Auditorium received a new name. It is now named W. Lee Mabe Auditorium, named after a man who is no stranger here in our famous barbecue town. Mabe has been the choral director at LSHS for the past 31 […]
Children’s Choir Rehearses For ACM Award Performance
LOS ANGELES — Beautiful music filled the MGM Grand just outside the Studio Ballroom yesterday morning, in preparation for the ACM Awards show tonight (Sunday, April 1). It wasn’t country music, though. There were no banjos, fiddles, or guitars. The singers weren’t wearing cowboy boots, and no, we aren’t even out in the ‘Boondocks.’ The angelic, a cappella sound […]