HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE KATHMANDU: Members of a Nepali choir, which was accused of absconding from Heathrow Airport, England, on April 27, today recounted their bitter experience. The 10-member choir returned home on May 5 after successfully participating in the Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival. According to Bimal Sherchan, one of the members, they had […]
AR high school choir library restored
By Jessica Rogers SHERWOOD, AR — In the storm of 2008 many parts of Sylvan Hills were destroyed. Those of which include the Choir room. The choir room has a library of all of the music the school has to offer. Some of these pieces of music date back to when the school was first […]
Dan Gawthrop; “She Walks In Beauty” Premieres
The Chautauqua Chamber Singers under the direction of Rebecca Ryan premiered Daniel E. Gawthrop’s newly commissioned setting of the Lord Byron poem “She Walks in Beauty” in a concert Saturday evening, 14 May, 2011 in Jamestown, NY. This SATB work is suitable for concert use by high school, collegiate, chamber and professional ensembles and is […]
Musicians have better brains
New research shows that musicians’ brains are highly developed in a way that makes the musicians alert, interested in learning, disposed to see the whole picture, calm, and playful. The same traits have previously been found among world-class athletes, top-level managers, and individuals who practice transcendental meditation.
New Christmas concert music-American tunes-SATB, violin, harp, tamborine
I’d like to introduce a new publication from Spindrift Music Company: Shepherds and Angels – new settings of American Christmas songs for SATB chorus, violin, harp and tamborine 9 movements setting Appalachian and New England tunes, with instrumental prelude and interludes You can download a PDF score and hear an audio demo […]
Call for Papers: National Symposium on American Choral Music
The American Choral Directors Association Research and Publications Committee is inviting research papers to be presented at the National Symposium on American Choral Music, June 29-30, 2012, to be held in Washington, DC. This event will showcase the American Choral Music website hosted by the Library of Congress, built as a result of a five-year collaboration […]