OAK PARK, IL — It’s unlikely that Yvonne and Rich Brode’s paths would have crossed outside of the Community Renewal Chorus. Just over 40 years ago, Oak Park/River Forest composer Harriet Zieganhals founded a unique vocal group, the Community Renewal Chorus and its companion children’s choir, All God’s Children. At a time of massive community […]

BY KATHY WILLIAMS SHERMAN, TX — Generations of Sherman High School choir alumni mourned the passing Monday of Duane Gohlke, who directed choirs at Piner Middle School before moving to SHS in 1972. At a reunion of former SHS Choir members last summer, family and friends took the opportunity to honor Mr. Gohlke and express […]

By Susanna Baird As enrollment declines at Catholic schools around the country, the last remaining Catholic boys’ choir school in the United States has hired a new director, reports The Boston Globe. Supplying a positive answer to the question of falling student numbers, the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School welcomed a young Englishman, John Robinson, into […]

By JENNIFER BRUMMETT The popular Danville Children’s Choir is returning after an almost-six-year absence, with a new conductor and assistant conductor/accompanist. Meg Stohlman is the new conductor, and Daniel Wesley is the new assistant conductor/accompanist. Auditions for the new choir will be held this month. The original Danville Children’s Choir ran for 15 years under […]

  Steven Sametz is the 2011 recipient of the American Choral Director Association’s prestigious Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission. As part of the commission, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer will premiere Dr. Sametz’s Three Mystical Choruses at the ACDA National Conference in Chicago’s Symphony Hall on March 9, 2011. Three Mystical Choruses is a three […]