By Stuart MacDonald WEST LOTHIAN, UK — A CLASSICAL musician is teaching some of the country’s toughest convicts to sing after setting up the UK’s first prison choir. Shona Brown, 27, is working with inmates at Addiewell prison in West Lothian to keep them in tune. The flautist and singer, a finalist in the BBC […]

POTSDAM — The Potsdam College Foundation is receiving more than $1.6 million from the estate of late Crane School of Music Professor Brock McElheran and his wife, librarian Jane Munro McElheran. The McElherans’ gifts will ensure funding in perpetuity for the Crane School and programs that were special to them both, said Dean of the […]

By Mai El-Wakil Ever since Egyptians took to the streets on 25 January to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime, people have tried to document events and capture the dynamics among Tahrir Square’s protesters. Accounts from the square describe a mini “Utopian” community, united by a common cause despite differences in ideology as well as social, […]

Notice to all choral alumni from Butler University…please join Henry Leck, James Mulholland and Eric Stark at a reception at the ACDA National Conference in Chicago! Join us Thursday night after the evening performances conclude (approximately 10 pm). The reception will be held at the Exchequer Restaurant and Pub, 226 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL […]

Singer Barry Manilow’s former publicist now lives in Jacksonville and has a daughter at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Mandarin. That meant that the fourth- and fifth-grade choir at the private Jewish school got to sing backup for the veteran performer when he appeared at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena last month. Manilow asked […]

GIG HARBOR. WA — Jean Kopta has enjoyed a rich musical career. She has taught voice lessons, directed choirs and sang in the Seattle Opera Chorus. But it’s her musical involvement in Gig Harbor, now that she’s retired, that she says beats all those experiences. Kopta, who lives in Olalla, is the founder of the […]