Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday morning at 8 a.m. eastern on The ClassicalStation. 08:00:46 Healey Willan: Prelude on “Ave, maris stella” Patrick Wedd, organ 1914/1995 Casavant Organ in Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal W.A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 Clare College Chapel Choir, Timothy Brown Dominic Wheeler, organ Don Carlo Gesualdo: Ave […]
News and Notices
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Announces 2013-14 Season
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) – led by Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson and acclaimed for its pure, agile, bel canto sound that has made it one of the most in-demand children’s choirs in the county – announces its 2013-14 season, entitled “Legacies Unleashed,” which spotlights the music of Benjamin Britten and the English choral tradition. […]
Pacific Boychoir Academy Open Houses on 10/27, 11/12/2013
Pacific Boychoir Academy will be holding two Open Houses for prospective families on Sunday, October 27 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. and Tuesday, November 12, 2013 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Come and visit the West Coast’s only choir school, where a full and challenging academic program for boys in grades 4-8 is integrated with daily musical instruction that motivates […]
Kickstarter Project
Friends, I’ve just launched a Kickstarter project to fund a CD of arrangements I wrote for the Dale Warland Singers. Ever since 2000, when I finished my eight-season tenure as composer in residence with the Dale Warland Singers, I’ve wanted to make available more of the works I wrote for them. When PARMA Recordings approached […]
Sexism faced by female conductors
Colleagues, On 7th September, 2013, Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms in the UK. In the run-up to the concert a fellow conductor described women on the podium as a distraction and that “a cute girl on a platform makes musicians think of other things”. Older […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 8, 2013
We observe Antonin Dvorak’s birthday this Sunday with an historic performance of his monumental Requiem in B-flat minor, Op. 89, B. 165. Shanah Tovah to all my Jewish friends. Thanks for your support. Rob Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music The Classical Station http://theclassicalstation.org ————————- 08:00:32 Johann Pachelbel: Fugue on the […]