A few months after Daniel Catán debuted opera “Il Postino” in Los Angeles (starring Placido Domingo), the composer selected the University of Houston as its next stop. In April, UH’s Moores Opera Center delivered the second production of Catán’s acclaimed adaptation of the award-winning film and book of the same title. Audiences responded enthusiastically, and […]

By Harris Blackwood   GAINESVILLE, GA — I’ve been singing in somebody’s choir for most of my life. It all began when I was four at Beecher Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta. We wore fluffy little choir robes with a little bow on the front.  For a child of 4, I looked rather angelic. This is […]

By Stuart Oskenhorn   SNOWMASS VILLAGE, CO — For several years, Paul Dankers, music director of the Snowmass Chapel and a enthusiast for vocal music, had been thinking that what the Roaring Fork Valley needed was a children’s choir. But Dankers was envisioning a serious endeavor, where the students would learn traditional repertoire and classical […]

By David Hardiman   TOTTENHAM, UK — A TOTTENHAM choir has won £6,000 towards musical equipment after winning a public competition. Tottenham Community Choir, which was formed two years ago, is made up of a diverse bunch of people from the borough and regularly performs at charity fucntions and public events such as Tottenham's Christmas lights […]

Dr Debra Cairns, who was awarded the prestigious Richard S. Eaton Award acknowledging exemplary service to choral music in the province of Alberta, said of the recognition “it is an honour to even be nominated ; this award celebrates a great number of talented people in Alberta who are dedicated to maintaining and growing the […]