By Molly Cormier   FREDERICTON, NB — The conductor’s hands fly as the choir members watch intently.   Each hand gesture – two fingers stabbing the air, a palm facing upward – symbolizes a different type of sound, which the choir then creates with their voices. This is the Overtime Improv Choir, a Fredericton-based improvising choir […]

By Ashley Jefferey   TAMPA — TAMPA —  It’s a rarity to hear “Brahms’ Requiem” for four-hand piano performed, but the talents of the choral group “Seraphic Fire” and students in the Professional Choral Institute at the University of South Florida pulled it off. For their efforts on the challenging classical piece, the group has been rewarded with […]

ACCRA, GHANA — The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched the first ever African choral festival in Accra. The African Choral Festival under the theme,’’ Celebrating Culture through Choral Music’’ is slated for March 9-13, 2012 and will take place in the National Theatre in Accra and the Cape Coast Castle in the Central Region. Launching […]

Julian Wachner, Music Director of The Washington Chorus and Director of Music and Arts at Trinity Church Wall Street will appear on THE MAESTRO SERIES on BlogTalk Radio, with Patrick D. McCoy, The African American Voice in Classical Music.  This interview serves as the anniversary show.  Wachner was the inaugural guest last year and will […]

On the Sunday before Christmas we continue with our presentation of music for Advent. Great Sacred Music airs each Sunday from 8-11 eastern om 89.7 fm in central Nrth Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org   Happy Holidays!   Rob ———————————————— 08:00:20 Traditional: O come, o come Emmanuel; Up, awake and away! All and some; ‘Twas […]