“Music and the Spoken Word,” the longest continuous network radio broadcast, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, has been voted into the National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF). The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and other honorees will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Nov. 6 during a two-hour long radio event.
REMEMBER by Stanley M. Hoffman
My SATB composition REMEMBER will be released by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 2010. I will announce the formal release of this title on ChoralNet once it begins to circulate. In the mean time, here is what OUP has to say about it. The text below is taken verbatim from their music bulletin […]
Schola Cantorum on Hudson announces auditions
Recently returned from a week as choir in residence at Canterbury cathedral, Schola cantorum on Hudson will be holding auditions for the coming season through September 10 as openings remain. Rehearsals begin September 13 and the first concert wil be in mid-October. Solo technique is supported and nurtured through exclusive solo selection from within the […]
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George Shangrow, Seattle conductor, killed in car crash
WINTHROP, Wash. A man killed in a collision on Highway 20 near Winthrop has been identified as Seattle musical director and conductor George Shangrow. The Wenatchee World reports he was on his way Saturday to deliver a lecture at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival when his car collided with a car driven by a 16-year-old. […]
Teaching CDs for Community Choir Leaders: Mulit-Part Songs from Around the World
Teaching CDs for Community Choir Leaders: Multi-Part Songs from Around the World, Volume 1 Created by: Betsy Sansby, co-author of 8 instructional books on African hand drumming and rhythm Betsy Sansby, who leads the One World Community Choir of Minnetonka, MN, has just produced the first in a set of teaching discs for community […]