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Chanticleer’s “Aloha Oe” as performed recently on A Prairie Home Companion
The “lost recording” of Chanticleer performing Aloha Oe is now exclusively available for download from Chanticleer’s website after their recent live performance on MPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. Visit www.chanticleer.org to download this song or any song or album from Chanticleer’s discography.
Tim Sharp Premieres New Handel Work
by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff It took classical choral composer George Handel less than a month to write his masterpiece Messiah , but more than 250 years for a lesser work to see the light of day. Tim Sharp conducts members of the combined Davidson Chorale, Southern Chorale from Georgia Southern University, and the Reid Memorial […]
Gay chorus hits hinterlands to open hearts
When the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on its Freedom Tour into the heart of Proposition 8 territory over the weekend, there were concerns. Would red-state towns like Redding and Chico turn out to see gay men in tuxedos singing “Over the Rainbow”? Would there be protests, threats or fear-mongering from Shasta County’s fundamentalist […]
2012 World Choir Games Site Hits High Note
Cincinnati, OH – Stanard Design Partners has developed and launched the online home – http://2012worldchoirgames.com/ – for the 2012 World Choir Games. The games will be hosted in Cincinnati USA, spanning eleven days in July 2012. Referred to as the “Olympics” of choir competitions, the event draws more than 20,000 participants and hundreds of thousands of visitors […]
Grammy results for choirs
Congratulations to the choral Grammy winners 2010: Best Classical Album: Mahler’s 8th (Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus) Best Choral Performance: Mahler’s 8th (same) Best Orchestral Performance: Ravel Daphnis & Chloe (Tanglewood Festival Chorus) Best Opera Recording: Billy Budd (Gentlemen of the London Symphony Chorus) Other winners involving choral albums: Producer […]