Announcing “The Face and Heart of New Music” — a short documentary video about the creation of a new piece of choral music. Produced by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus (PWC) of Palo Alto, California, this project documents the collaborative efforts in commissioning and premiering “Face and Heart,” created for treble voices by composer Pablo Ortiz […]
“Sing Away Our Troubles”–SATB (some divisi), upbeat, FREE
“Sing Away Our Troubles” now available (free) from www.choralmelodies.com on the SATB page. Appropriate for both secular and sacred venues. Listen:
Shaw/Bennett: The Many Moods of Christmas
The rental agent for these Lawson Gould publications has changed. The full orchestrations are now on rental from Alfred Music Publishing rental dept. <http://www.alfred.com/rental/.aspx> ITEM: #SHAROB1 The Many Moods of Christmas, Suite 1 1963 Shaw , Robert Edit/Arr/Orchestrator: Bennett, Robert Russell Duration:12:00 Songs in Suite One:«Good Chritian Men, Rejoice«Silent Night«Patapan«O Come, All Ye Faithful Description: […]
Morgan Executive Fits a Choir Robe Beneath Her Pinstripes
Wall Street banks are not known as particularly religious workplaces. But Carla A. Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and a part-time gospel singer, has found a way to blend profits with piety. Ms. Harris, one of the most senior African-American female executives on Wall Street, began her career in mergers and acquisitions, then worked her […]
On The Classical Station’s Great Sacred Music
The Huelgas Ensemble, The King’s Consort, the Moscow Chamber Choir and theTallis Scholars will be featured in the first hour of Great Sacred Music this Sunday beginning at 8 a.m. eastern. They will sing music by Matthaeus Pipelare, Andrea Gabrieli, Franz Joseph Haydn, Sergei Rachmaninov and Thomas Tallis. At 9 a.m. you can enjoy the […]
Andrew Housholder, 78, remembered as a “truly extraordinary, yet ordinary man.”
By Sasha Abraham BOWLING GREEN, OH — Andrew Edward Housholder, Huntington High School’s choral director from 1965 to 1988 whose passion for music helped shape the lives of generations of students, died Sept. 8 in Bowling Green, Ohio. He was 78. “When I am asked about teachers that shaped my life; only a handful come […]