By Richard Wright   NEWPORT, UK —  COMMUNITY chorister Hannah Brear really has something to sing about. Hannah’s name is the first to be announced as a bearer of the Olympic torch on the Isle of Wight leg of its journey around the UK, prior to the start of the London Olympics. Hannah, founder and […]

NEW HAVEN CT — Yale University Library has acquired a substantial collection of interviews on the prominent choral conductor and composer, Sir David Willcocks. Perhaps best known as the director of music at King’s College, Cambridge University, Willcocks also held the directorship of London’s Royal College of Music, and published the popular anthologies “Carols for Choirs.” […]

By Monica Orosz   CHARLESTON, SC — The story goes that Anton Armstrong first heard the renowned St. Olaf College Choir when his mom decided that performance would be a better use of his time than attending a Moody Blues concert for which he had tickets.   The story is true, Armstrong said, one of those […]

By Chris Schwarten   ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA — IT WAS the last thing Shirley Green expected when she went to her letterbox one afternoon last year.  And the Yeppoon woman is still coming to grips with the information she received. A very modest Shirley was overwhelmed to discover that she was to receive an Order of Australia […]

The spotlight is on Mozart this Sunday. Boston Baroque performs the Requiem in D minor in a version completed by Robert Levin. Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8 – 11 a.m. eastern on The Classical Station. 89.7 fm in central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org   Rob Kennedy ———————————————————————– 08:00:20 Cesar Franck: […]