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Composer Robert Kyr will soon premier a work with Conspirare.   Here is what he says about it: Each of four programs focuses on a major choral composer: Josquin Des Prez (early Renaissance), Orlande de Lassus (Renaissance), Tomás Luis de Victoria (late Renaissance), and J.S. Bach (Baroque). “Songs of the Soul is one of most […]

This is too funny:       But you won't get it unless you are aware of the YouTube phenomenon that started with this young man:       And that story spawned this song:       Antoine has become quite a star:  

I found this today via a twitter search on choral music.  Read the whole post here.   Choral singing also has something to teach us about the joy of work. We speak glibly of this all the time, of course, and it’s not that there aren’t other places we experience it. But I think there […]

I grew up as television grew up, so I feel confident in saying that as we enter 2011, choral and vocal music have never before experienced the brightness of the current popular media spotlight. We witness choral flash mobs springing up as the new choral rave party with purposed "spontaneous" performances of Handel at Walmart […]

Throughout the literature of every culture, fictional mentors have entered the imagination of writers and storytellers, passing along the lessons of life through characters of fantasy, myth, legend, heroics, and even the most ordinary of individuals. For King Arthur, it was Merlin. For Harry Potter, it is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. For me, it […]

According to the Business Committee for the Arts (a Division of Americans for the Arts) in 1968 7,000 companies were asked how much they give to the arts and why they give to the arts. In the original BCA Survey of Business Support of the Arts which was conducted in partnership with the National Industrial […]