News and Notices

Listers,   To celebrate the World Choral Day of Dec.9, Musica International has opened its website www.musicanet.org with a full *unrestricted* privileged access without any need of login/password: the “Auditorium” (thousand of choral sound files or videos links), the favorite piece of each month since February 1998, no limitations in the number of answers after […]

Four hours of Great Sacred Music this Sunday. Since we came up a bit short last month during the Fall Membership Drive, we’ll be fund raising this week. I call it Fund Raising Lite because I have scheduled several long works as is our usual Sunday morning custom and less talk.   Since you are […]

The nominations for the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards® were announed last night, with the following five choral CDs nominated for “Best Choral Performance” – Handel: Israel In Egypt Julian Wachner, conductor (Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Trinity Choir Wall Street) Life & Breath – Choral Works By René Clausen Charles Bruffy, conductor (Kansas City Chorale) (also nominated […]

El Coro Universitario de Mendoza que dirige la Prof. Silvana Vallesi, se presentó el día Jueves 22 de noviembre junto al tenor José Carreras, el reconocido músico y charanguista Jaime Torres y la soprano Verónica Cangemi. El concierto se realizó ante unos 12.000 espectadores en el recientemente inaugurado Espacio Cultural Julio Le Parc de Mendoza. También participó el Grupo Anacrusa, el […]

The theme of the Sunday in Siouxland broadcast on December 9, 2012 at 10 a.m. CST, the final episode of the initial 13-week series, is “O GREAT MYSTERY.”  Catch the show online at www.kwit-koji.org if you are outside of the local area.  The selections are as follows:   Pierre Villette — O Magnum Mysterium The […]

Music for the First Sunday of Advent this week. I have never liked a lot of talk on Great Sacred Music. Always try to keep my comments to a minimum. With that in mind let me know how you like the groupings I am doing this morning during the first hour. I will play two […]