Curtis E. Hansen, age 90, of Edina, MN, passed away peacefully on January 31, 2011. As one of seven original founders of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in 1959, he was the only one remaining until his death. After graduation from Amery, WI High School and St. Olaf College (where he studied and sang with F. Melius Christiansen), he […]
Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education – new peer-reviewed journal accepting submissions
See the details here: http://jpalhe.cnu.edu/ “Welcome to the first edition of the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education, an on-line peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the enrichment of leadership in the performing arts in higher education. Our Goals are: To promote scholarship applicable to performing arts leadership. To provide juried research in the […]
Children’s Choir Director Louise Kienzle Gets State Award
By Angel Carpenter EUGENE, OR – Louise Kienzle, the music teacher at Humbolt Elementary School in Canyon City, has been honored with a statewide music education award. She received a plaque for the 2011 Excellence in Elementary Music Education Award on Jan. 15, at the Oregon Music Educators Association conference in Eugene. Kienzle teaches music […]
New choir starts 2011 in perfect harmony
By Sharon Lee Tegler SEVERNA PARK, MD — The lyrics to the song “Sanctuary” are simple, but the group of individuals practicing it Thursday evening beamed with pleasureas they combined four layers of harmony with several different rhythms and counter rhythms. The singers were members of a new choir called LifeSongs, which meets weekly in […]
One Earth Choir – a worldwide cultural Project
PROJECT ÌNIN 2012 ONE EARTH CHOIR © Anna Bacchia 2010 ÌNIN 2012 – ONE EARTH CHOIR ‘on the Path of the Peoples’ – One Choir spread around the whole Globe. Voices in cities all over the World will sing together the same music. […]
Habermann to leave Master Chorale
By Lawrence A. Johnson Joshua Habermann, artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida, will leave the position at the end of this season after three years. The 42-year old choral director will move to Texas to take up a new assignment as chorus director for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. That also means that […]