It looks like choral musicians are going to conferences again! ChorusAmerica actually turned people away from their last conference because of the high attendance. Ann Meier Baker talks about the "state of choral music" from her perspective in this podcast from a San Francisco radio station. Ann Meier Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer […]
Fabulous Singing: Kent Hatteburg and Swider’s Cantus Gloriosus
I’m thinking about programming this work next year and I thought I’d share a superb performance with the Sunday visitors to ChoralNet:
Bravo NCCO
The announcement for the next NCCO Conference came out and I must say that it looks incredible. Bravo, NCCO! Take a look at these outstanding offerings: The conference will be hosted by Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado from November 3 – 5 and will feature: Sessions by Headliners Helmuth Rilling (Inside […]
The Next Wave: Rock Choir
If this came on last Thursday night, I missed it. Did anyone see it? The Choir That Rocks Described here on A Cappella News: A recent phenomenon in England is the emergence of the Rock Choir. Created in 2005 by director Caroline Redman Lusher, Rock Choir is the first choir to offer a very […]
Brahms “Warum?” and The Fourth Symphony
In yesterday’s blog, I featured Alex Ross’s great post about the new movie “The Tree of Life”. At the end of his post, he talked about his ideas relating the great choral motet “Warum?” to Brahms’ Fourth Symphony: By the way, Brahms’s great motet “Warum?” is a setting of the anguished question from the […]
Choral Music featured in new Brad Pitt movie: “The Tree of Life”
Alex Ross has done a splendid classical music preview of a new movie directed by Terrence Malick, that features Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. The film is full of great classical music and much of it is choral or choral related, including: Berlioz: 10. Agnus Dei [Requiem, Op. 5 (Grande Messe des […]