The critically acclaimed Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) – a leading artistic force, staunch advocate of civil and human rights, and the first gay men’s choir to perform for a sitting president (Bill Clinton) – has harnessed the power of music to create a moving anti-bullying music video message featuring Cyndi Lauper’s inspiring […]

By JEROME P. CURRY HOLCOMB, KS — Rachel Massoth is focused. On Monday, the Holcomb High School choir director had gall bladder surgery at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City. And then on Wednesday, she was back in her classroom guiding her 21-voice choir through its tonal paces. Several people in the high school office […]

By Janelle Gelfand • jgelfand(a)enquirer.com • October 20, 2010 Cincinnati was chosen over 20 competing cities to be the first North American host city for the 2012 World Choir Games, the world’s largest amateur choir competition, because of its variety of venues, its longstanding choral tradition and, just as importantly, its welcoming atmosphere, said Günter […]

Some may say Smith is losing its identity as a female college when such groups emerge. This isn’t true. Being a woman is still a requirement for admission. Estrogen is in the very air. 

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah has named a guest conductor to lead its choral studies program after last week’s unexpected resignation of Brady Allred. The university had been using graduate students to fill in for Allred after he took a month’s personal leave and then resigned for “unexpected personal and family circumstances.” […]

The universal language of music notes written on paper are easy for the Hemet West Valley chamber choir to understand. It’s the words that coincide with them — written in a language that almost none of them could begin to read or pronounce — that is the hard part. This year, in gearing up for […]