Terry Knowles, long-time executive director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC), has been promoted to President and CEO of the world-renowned chorus effective immediately, announced LAMC Chairman Mark Foster. Terry has served as executive director since 2000.  The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a resident company of the Music Center and is the resident […]

By Lanz Christian Bañes VALLEJO, CA — What once was anticipated as an exciting trip to the nation’s capital could prove disappointing — and more expensive — for dozens of Vallejo students. “If the (federal) shutdown’s still going on, we have to put in even more money,” said Ryan Lee, director of St. Patrick-St. Vincent […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]