TORONTO — With the rich monastic history of some of England’s universities, the tradition of choral evensong still thrives, creating a thirst for new settings for new settings of the canticles – a collection of texts from the Bible which have been used as songs or chants for hundreds of years. As Canada is not […]
Choral Parade From Hudson River to Rensselaer Campus Is a First
TROY, NY — A choral parade combining four university choirs, accompaniment broadcast via WRPI, and a route leading from the Hudson River to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus will be a first-of-its-kind experience for Rensselaer and the city of Troy next month. The “Troy Paradio” performance is the opening piece of a larger concert presented as […]
More than 300 voices will come together in choral event Singing for Peace
By GUY D’ASTOLFO YOUNGSTOWN — Hae-Jong Lee is plunking keys on a piano in his office at Youngstown State University. The choral music professor is demonstrating how disparate notes blend together to make a perfect-sounding chord. It’s lesson, he says, that applies not only to music, but to society. To turn his analogy into reality, […]
Morgen! (Richard Strauss) Arr. for SATB & Pno. or Chamb. Orch.
My new arrangement of Morgen! (Tomorrow!) by Richard Strauss (originally for voice & piano) is now available for pre-publication sales from ECS Publishing. It is arranged for SATB chorus and piano or chamber orchestra (3 horns, harp, violin solo, strings). The piano/choral score (which is only four pages long) is catalog number 7774, the full score […]
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir will be unveiled Thursday
By Marcia Adair LOS ANGELES — Orchestral musicians had their date with Internet destiny a few weeks ago with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Now the spotlight moves to choral singers with Thursday’s release of the Virtual Choir. Los Angeles-based choral composer Eric Whitacre created a choir that allows lone choristers from Lebanon, Kazakhstan and Madagascar […]
Swazi bank supports choral music in Swaziland
By Howard Mavuso YET again, Standard Bank has sponsored E210 000 towards the 2011 Standard Bank Choral Music Championship [ed. note: about US$31,700] As part of the competition, soloist eliminations started over the weekend, where 24 made it for the finals to be held on April 9 at Esibayeni Lodge (Esangweni). Last year’s sponsorship was […]