World Choral Day (WCD) is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday in December: this year December 9. The theme for 2012 is “Solidarity”: choral events organized for WCD on or around that date will form a collective expression of solidarity with all the people who are suffering because of human and natural catastrophes. We invite you […]
News and Notices
Choral Concert cancelled
St. John on the Mountain in Bernardsville, NJ has cancelled the concert “Sights and Sounds of the Soul” which was rescheduled for this Saturday, November 10th from November 4th due to continued power outage from the storm. The Festival Choir will reschedule this concert sometime in the winter/spring of 2013. Richard Morgan, Director of […]
Nov 11 Sunday in Siouxland Broadcast — A Saint Olaf Sunday
The Sunday in Siouxland broadcast on November 11, 2012 at 10 a.m. CST, “A Saint Olaf Sunday,” will feature a compilation of performances by the St. Olaf Choir under the direction of Dr. Anton Armstrong. All recordings are available through St. Olaf Records – http://www.stolafrecords.com/store/pc/home.asp. Catch the show online at www.kwit-koji.org if you are outside […]
Lee University Festival Choir to Perform at Presidential Inauguration
The Lee University Festival Choir has been invited to perform at the 2013 Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C. in January. Sen. Lamar Alexander informed the school Thursday at a special ceremony. “We do not yet know who will be inaugurated president in January,” Alexander said in a press release Thursday, “but we do know who will […]
Nov 4 Sunday in Siouxland Broadcast
The Sunday in Siouxland broadcast on November 4, 2012 at 10 a.m. CST will feature a complete performance of Dominick Argento’s “Evensong: Of Love and Angels,” written in memory of the composer’s late wife Carolyn Bailey Argento and commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Washington National Cathedral. Catch the show online at www.kwit-koji.org if […]
LA Master Chorale Opens 49th Season with Panache
The Los Angeles Master Chorale launched the 2012|13 season, its 49th, on Sunday, October 21, 2012, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with a sublime organ and choral music extravaganza led by Music Director Grant Gershon that showcased the majesty and power of the venue’s iconic pipe organ and was capped by a glittering post-concert gala […]