By Bernie Delinski MUSCLE SHOALS – Standing alongside a piano inside FAME Recording Studios, Hackleburg High School choir director Judy Miller reached over and pressed a key. With that, her students, who had formed a semicircle Thursday facing a pair of microphones, made sure their voices were in harmony. Miller then signaled to them and […]
Choir members surprise director with essays of thanks
By Zaimarie De Guzman STUART, FL — Most seniors at Martin County High School are tired of writing final projects and college applications, but a small group of them last week happily volunteered to write an essay addressed to one of their teachers — Ronald Corbin. For 31 years, Corbin, 62, has directed the school’s […]
Special-needs choir connects songwriters on journey from challenging pasts
The choir, comprised of special-needs men and women from ages 21 to 50, sat before director J.D. Allen as he led them in a rendition of an original song titled “Little Flowers,” about how children and special-needs people are precious and fragile. J.D. strummed his guitar and guided the choir through the song, one of […]
Jean Françaix “Deux Motets” for SSATB and Organ, new publication
Jean Françaix‘s work for SSATB chorus and organ has just been published by Musik Fabrik music publshing. The work uses two excerpts of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis in a French translation : 1. Qui me donnera des ailes pour voler vers vous? and 2. Les âmes des Justes sont dans la […]
Wayland Rogers wins Illinois ACDA Composition Award
Wayland Rogers has won the Illinois ACDA Choral Composition Competition with WHEN DAISIES PIED, a work for a cappella mixed chorus, with a text by William Shakespeare. It is to be premiered at the Illinois ACDA ReTreat on July 7th at Illinois State Universtiy in Normal Illinois, sung by The Directors’ Chorus conducted by Dr. David Rayl of Michigan State University.
Christopher Hansen named Orange Teacher of the Year
By Matthew Burns HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Orange County Schools on Tuesday named Cedar Ridge High School choral director Christopher Hansen as the school district’s 2011-12 Teacher of the Year. “There are so many outstanding teachers at Cedar Ridge and throughout the district. I truly humbled and honored,” Hansen said in a statement. “We […]