By Pat Gee HONOLULU — The Rev. Daniel J. Werning led the Hawaii Sacred Choir during practice at the Cathedral of St. Theresa on Thursday. The nondenominational choir, which includes youth and adult singers, will give its first public concert next Saturday at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Most members of the new Hawaii Sacred […]
MI high school choir gets check from iTunes
BY MARIE HAVENGA mhavenga(a)grandhaventribune.com The voices of Grand Haven High School choir students span the globe — as well as the Internet and iTunes. There’s a check for $46.34 sitting in the office of the school’s vocal music teacher, Shirley Lemon, that proves it. “We received our first check from iTunes,” Lemon said. “I haven’t […]
Memorial Concert – James Dearing
The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will honor the memory of longtime choral professor James Dearing in a concert on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The event will feature over 125 current and past students of the IUP choral program in a grand concert befitting of a fine teacher, conductor, […]
Sarah Morrison receives 2010 Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting
Toronto, December 2, 2010 – The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and Choirs Ontario today announced Sarah Morrison, Music Director of the Oakville Children’s Choir as this year’s recipient of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting. The Leslie Bell Prize will be presented to Ms. Morrison at the Choir’s The Frosty Weather concert on December […]
P-S-F-S Live-in-Concert tracks now online
Live-in-concert tracks of P-S-F-S (Prince SF Singers)’s performances of two weekends ago (Dec 3-4-5) are now available for listening on www.kenmalucelli.com. That the 16-voice chorus and piano-4-hands team were able to put this complex program together in just three rehearsals is fairly amazing. To hear the selectons on the site listed above, click on the […]
Various choral groups stage flash mob at Daphne Walmart
DAPHNE, Ala.—Shoppers at the Walmart were surprised Saturday at 1 p.m. by approximately 100 voices of a “flash mob” choral group belting out the hymn “Hallelujah Chorus” by Handel Messiah. About 100 people stunned Walmart shoppers Saturday as they simultaneously burst into a Christmas song. (Photo submitted by Tomasina Werner) Shoppers stopped everything they were […]