MILTON KEYNES, UK — IF you like singing then the Milton Keynes Rock Choir could be for you. The group was started in Surrey in 2005 and since then has grown across the country to areas including Milton Keynes, Bedford and Luton. Now dozens of people meet in the city to sing in the contemporary […]
ACDA 2011: Univ. of Colorado Alumni Reception
The CU Alumni Reception will be held on Friday, March 11, 12 noon, in the ERIE Room at the Chicago Hilton. The event is graciously sponsored by the University of Colorado College of Music. RSVP’s are not required, but would be certainly accepted and appreciated at the email address below. See you soon and Go […]
Welsh male voice choirs: a vocal minority
By Jude Rogers A school canteen after-hours, the shutters closed and the chairs stacked, makes for a peculiar music venue. But this is home to the oldest amateur male-voice choir in Wales, which I’m watching rehearse on a quiet Monday evening in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea. The room is a sea of white […]
Estonian Choral Music Prizes Awarded
TALLINN, ESTONIA — Conductor Ingrid Kõrvts and her youth choir enjoyed a good showing at the 10th annual choral music award ceremony at the Estonia Concert Hall on January 30. Kõrvits received the best conductor award, and the Tallinn Secondary School of Music youth choir was selected as Choir of the Year. The Gustav Ernesaks […]
Kingston singers’ reach top note in escalator performance
KINGSTON, SURREY, UK — Singers filled a shopping centre with an impromptu escalator performance. In a debut performance by Surbiton Escalator Choral Society, known as SECS, singers filled what is the world’s largest single truss escalator. They gathered in the Bentall Centre for their performance of I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise on Thursday, January […]
Travel package to 2011 World Choral Symposium in Argentina
Join Diana Leland and other choral music colleagues and travel to the prestigious World Symposium on Choral Music in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Save yourself time and money and experience camaraderie by traveling with a group of fellow symposium attendees. You will also have the opportunity to embark on an optional extension to Iguazu Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world. Due to the heavy […]