Phoenix Boys Choir Auditions Status: pending moderation Date: September 22, 2010 by Greg Amerind Location: Arizona, USA Choir type: Children’s and Youth Choirs Voicing: Children 2010-11 Season Auditions Now Open! Auditions for the Phoenix Boys Choir are being scheduled for boys from 7 to 14 years for the 2010-11 season. Boys will be a part […]
You’re Alll Invited to Join the Virtual Choir!
American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has invited the world to sing-a-long online in an attempt create the world’s largest virtual choir. The Juilliard-trained Whitacre — whose first Virtual Choir became a hit on YouTube — aims to combine thousands of individual choral parts sung by people around the world and submitted as video clips […]
New Maryville College choir gives outlet to high school singers
MARYVILLE – Megan Sparkes used to belong to the Asheville Symphony Children’s Choir in North Carolina. When she and her family moved to Tennessee about three months ago, however, she was left without a place to sing. And because the 16-year-old is homeschooled, she didn’t have the option of singing in a school choir. Maryville […]
Easy Introit for St. Francis’ Day (Blessing of the Animals)
Click here to hear Clare Shore’s Tropical Blessing (a Blessing for St. Francis’ Day) for SAB Chorus and Handbells: http://www.clareshore.com/LRoom.htm The words are by the composer: Praise God, the Father, our Creator!/Bless all of us, He is our maker!/Bless paw and hoof, burrow and roost;/Bless equine, bovine, canine, feline, Osprey, egret, woodpecker, Little Blue;/Bless Spot […]
Down in Yon Forest
Opera composer to take over American Fork children’s choir
AMERICAN FORK, Utah — The road from writing operas to directing children singing about a mysterious cat or a Halloween song about bones is apparently not too long. M. Ryan Taylor, composer of the opera "Abinadi," is the new director of the American Fork Children's Choir. He only has two rehearsals under his […]