Great Sacred Music airs Sunday mornings from 8-11 eastern on 89.7 FM in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org with your host Rob Kennedy.   ———————————————————————–   08:00:20 H. Walford Davies: Psalm 130, “Out of the deep” Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger Francis Grier, organ 08:04:31 Gregorio Allegri and Tommaso Bai: Miserere […]

By Peggy McEwan   SILVER SPRING, MD — Christopher Guerra is the choral music director and digital music teacher at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Silver Spring. He was interviewed at the school Feb. 15.   How long have you been teaching? I have been with Montgomery County for […]

By George Orido   NAIROBI — Maisha ya mjini ni tabu tu madeni tu, Pesa za mjini ni kama chumvi huyeyuka ni bure tu! Baba nipe shamba, nitafanya kazi kwa mikono yangu, nijilishe mwenyewe… (Life in the city is just problematic; the money you earn melts away like salt. Dad, give me land I will work […]

By Matthew Tully   NEW YORK — They came. They saw. They sang. And although the Big Apple was a big deal to the 19 Manual High School students who made the trip east, they handled their Carnegie Hall debut without missing a note, overcoming this challenge just as they’ve overcome many personal obstacles in their […]

By Se-Ho B. Kim   CAMBRIDGE, MA — Andrew G. Clark is the director of the Holden Choir Program, the oldest collegiate choral program in the United States. He is also the conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.   THC: Besides the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, what other groups […]

By Leslie Postal   ORLANDO, FL — The chorus teacher at Freedom High School knows from personal experience that teachers have the power to save “lost children.”  When he was such a child — a badly behaving ninth grader with a distraught single mother — a music teacher took a chance on him by encouraging him musically […]