All teacher/conductors who are working with children’s choir (in or out of schools) and youth choirs in their community are invited to join us for a reception in Chicago on Thursday, March 10 from 6:00-8:00 in the Hilton’s Grand Traditions Room. The ACDA R & S area reception will be hosted by National Chair for […]
Lesley Garrett to join choir on Isle of Wight
By Jon Moreno ISLE OF WIGHT, UK — INTERNATIONALLY renowned soprano singer Lesley Garrett will be the special guest at a concert led by a massed choir, including Island ensembles, at the first Isle of Arts festival. More than 100 choristers will include the 45-strong Medina High Community Choir and another Island group, […]
Manfred Knoop, 1949-2011
BY JAY LEVIN RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Manfred Knoop, who led a robust music ministry at the Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Wyckoff and who promoted the choral heritage of his German homeland, died Monday at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. He was 62 and lived in River Edge. He had stomach cancer, his […]
Evanston Children’s Choir wins Mayor’s Award for Arts
By Sarah Freishtat EVANSTON, IL — In 2002 the Evanston Children’s Choir consisted of founder Gary Geiger sitting in a room with three kids who could not sing the same note at the same time. Today it has more than 100 members and performs with groups such as the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and Barry […]
SATB Arrangement of BEAU SOIR by Claude Debussy
The arrangement I made of the art song BEAU SOIR by Claude Debussy is no longer a pre-publication edition. (See my Choralnet posting of September 8, 2010.) It is now available in-print from ECS Publishing. It is scored for SATB chorus and piano. The lyrics are in both French and English; the translation is new. The ECS […]
We Are One choir donates to school music programs
ST. LOUIS — The We Are One Community Choir has made its mission raising money to help vocal music programs at area schools. On Jan. 10, Cheyenne Huffman, a freshman and member of two choirs at Fox High School, as well as a charter member of the We Are One choir, presented Fox choral director […]