Santa Ana, CA – Pacific Chorale Artistic Director John Alexander and President and CEO Kelly Ruggirello announce the November 7, 2010 release of the organization’s newest recording, Pacific Chorale Live: Rachmaninov Vespers. Recorded during the 140-voice Pacific Chorale’s May 23, 2010 performance of the Russian masterwork, this is the Chorale’s tenth […]
Simon Estes shares his story with HS Choir
By Dean Close · 11:46am October 29th, 2010 VINTON, IA — Simon Estes did not grow up dreaming of being one of the most renowned opera singers in the entire world. He never even heard opera music until he went to college. Estes, who will perform a concert Saturday evening at the Vinton-Shellsburg High School […]
Young Composers Competition for Women’s Voices
The Milwaukee Choral Artists, one of five professional women’s vocal ensembles in the United States, invites entries for its second Young Composer Composition Competition. Scores are due January 15, 2011. For information, visit www.milwaukeechoralartists.org.
New choral music for equal and mixed voices
On www.wozimusic.com there are lots of choral pieces of Josef Wolfgang Ziegler and Wolfgang Ziegler. All sample scores can be downloaded completely for free. There are secular, sacred and folk music pieces. There are MIDI files or recordings available. Some of the scores are published in Germany and Japan, but most of them by wozimusic.com. […]
Requiem for the Queen who sponsored the discovery of America Now available in pdf downloadable from your computer
Fidelio Musica edicion has recently published the world’s first edition of Mass Pro defunctis by the Portuguese composer Pedro de Escobar also known as Pedro do Porto. Escobar’s requiem is the first iberian Requiem and one of the first in Europe to follow the example of Johannes Ockeghem’s Requiem. According to the musicologists Tess […]
School choir ready for Cincinnati Pops
By Janelle Gelfand CINCINNATI — It’s Monday morning, and 55 members of the Winton Woods High School Varsity Ensemble are rocking and finger-snapping a little too boisterously through “Ghostbusters.” “This is not about you having a party. This is about you performing for them,” says director David Bell, pointing to their invisible audience. Winton Woods […]