LONDON, UK — AN all-female choir from Amersham has taken the title of Good Housekeeping Choir of the Year 2010. Amersham A Cappella outshone three other finalists in the prestigious annual competition with renditions of ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’, ‘Joint is Jumpin’’ and ‘Somebody to Love’ at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London earlier this month. The […]

Every college student wants to be a part of a class that really does not seem like a class at all. Over the course of four years very few students are able to say that one of their classes feels like another home. However, for the students of the University of Kentucky Women’s Choir that […]

MELROSE, MA — Memorial Hall in Melrose isn’t exactly the Stone Pony, and the Polymnia Choral Society, a 57-year-old volunteer chorus headquartered in Melrose, doesn’t usually engender fist pumping at its concerts. The group’s next performance on Dec. 3, for example, titled “A Victorian Christmas,” will feature excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” and other seasonal favorites, […]

LIMERICK, IRELAND — Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:01 “CHORAL music is going through a certain renaissance now. It has become a very popular past-time to be involved in,” declares one who knows. Liz Powell is chief executive officer of the Limerick based Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), an organisation that carries the strapline “enchancing life […]

Randall Giles, composer and ethnomusicologist, died Aug. 27, 2010, in India, following a heart attack. He was 60.     In 1999, as a missionary of the Episcopal church, Randy was invited to serve the Church of South India, to do parish-based work in music, and to work towards the founding of a center for Indian […]

KUALA LUMPUR – For the first time, a choir comprising 27 autistic children performed to a full audience yesterday with their rendition of Heal the world and You raise me up. This feat was recorded in the Malaysia Book of Records as the first autistic choir in the country. The children, aged between seven and […]