By Patty Wetli CHICAGO — When’s the last time you heard an auditorium full of high school students go nuts for a cellist? That was the scene at Lake View High School, 4015 N. Ashland Ave., Monday morning as Yo-Yo Ma, opera great Renee Fleming and Damian Woetzel, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, joined the […]
Choral Director Named National Semi-Finalist
By Brian Kaufman WINCHESTER, VA A local choir director is a semi-finalist for a National Composition Award. Ryan Keebaugh, Director of Choral Activities for Clarke County, was chosen as one of 40 semi-finalists from across the nation for the American Prize in Choral Composition. About 8,000 people applied for the prize. This is the first […]
Muñiz composes a 21st-century ‘Stabat Mater’
By Andrew S. Hughes SOUTH BEND, IN — Soon after Jorge Muñiz moved to South Bend, he and Wishart Bell developed the sort of friendship that involves meeting for coffee several times a year.At one of those coffee get-togethers last year, Bell mentioned that Musical Arts Indiana, the choral and orchestra organization he founded in […]
Chorus says farewell to director of 15 years
By Tiffany Self ELMHURST, IL — For 15 years, Joan Boutilier took the Sweet Adelines International (SAI) Choral-Aires Chorus to new heights; consistently winning regional competitions and ranking highly at international competitions. In January, her reign as the Choral-Aires director came to an end as she stepped down from the Chorus. In a bittersweet good-bye, […]
Longfellow Chorus Post Elgar King Olaf Videos
Dear ChoralNetters: On March 3 and 4, The Longfellow Chorus, Portland, Maine, gave two rare performances of Elgar’s mammoth ‘Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf’ cantata, as well as the premieres of six new song and choral settings of Longfellow’s poetry. A number of clips from this weekend of concerts known as “The […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, March 18, 2012
Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org with your host Rob Kennedy —————————————————— 08:00:28 J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude on “O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross”, BWV 622 Friedrich Froschle, organ The Great Organ of the Ulm Cathedral 08:09:54 Luca Marenzio: […]