News and Notices

Ruggieri Scholarship Committee Monrovia, CA         Alexander Ruggieri Memorial Music Scholarship – Applications Now Accepted   The Ruggieri Scholarship Committee will be awarding a scholarship to a Southern California vocal musician in June. This award was established to honor Alexander Ruggieri—conductor, composer, and vocalist—who contributed so much to Southern California’s musical culture […]

3 May 2014: Spring Songs with Albion, Holy Trinity Church 06/05/2014 reviewed in Classical Sheffield Bernard Lee Heard three times, this was not a concert to be at if you had an aversion to Parry’s Jerusalem. Holy Trinity is not a big church, neither is it a small one and was packed, the assemblage lustily […]

Peter Rasmussen Hallock 19 November 1924 — 27 April 2014   Peter R. Hallock—mystic, solitary, composer, organist, liturgist, and countertenor forever linked to Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle—died of congestive heart failure on Sunday afternoon, April 27, 2014. He had just returned to his beloved home in Fall City, Wash., after a lengthy hospitalization. He […]

                    John Barron   December 20, 1939 – April 28, 2014   It is with great sadness that the family of John Barron share the news of his passing. John died at home, surrounded by family, after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. He left this […]

This week’s playlist continues the celebration of Easter. In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – May 4, 2014 Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.   Rob Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music […]

There’s something deeply familiar about the music of choral group Albion, as Rob Hollingworth found out. A unique take on tradition classical www.etcmag.net Twitter@etcmag_south magazine – April 2014 With a repertoire consisting of new choral pieces, all written in the two years since they were formed, Albion sound like new kids on the block. But […]